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Articles by Tara G. Malhotra
Politics Has a Brain Rot Problem
I need a break from homework. So I do what any young person would: I sit back and open TikTok, hoping to watch some harmless, funny videos that will take my mind off of exams. Instead, I am met with dramatic montages encouraging forceful deportation, edits of a romantic relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and meme-ified footage of military strikes in Iran. What am I even watching?
Start Paying Attention
Last week, I took a different path to class and noticed a building I had walked by for months without ever seeing. This wasn’t some huge revelation. Sure, the building was nice, but it primarily made me wonder what else I’d stopped seeing while going through the motions. In life, and at Harvard especially, routine is the path of least resistance. We choose the same seat in lecture, surround ourselves with the same people, and curate the same schedule.
What Are We Really Learning Here?
Pablo Picasso once said, “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” At Harvard, we spend our four years mastering methods too, but unlike Picasso, we’re not growing past them. Harvard teaches us frameworks for everything: how to structure an argument, read a text, or solve a problem. Frameworks are how we learn to see, but when treated as an endpoint, they also narrow what we see.
I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us.
Pushing open the doors to the conference room in the Academic Resource Center, I looked around for a seat among incoming and experienced tutors. It was my first staff meeting as a tutor in the Harvard Writing Center, and I was filled with excitement and hopeful anticipation about my new job. Then I found out the implications of what had changed. Harvard’s Writing Center has arguably been dismantled. At the end of July, former Writing Center director Jane Rosenzweig was abruptly laid off.
Machines Can’t Decide What’s Human
After toiling away for days on my paper, it is finally finished. Hours of writing and proofreading have led to this moment. I double-check the formatting of my citations one last time before downloading the PDF, ready to submit. But I cannot relax yet: it’s time to run my essay through multiple AI detectors. You might be wondering, Tara, did you use artificial intelligence to write the paper? Of course not.
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