2018 Speeches

Colleen McGovern - "Tea, Tears, and Theses"

(advised by Caitlin Casey)

January 25, 2018

Kelsey O'Connor - "Friends in New Places"

(advised by Livingston Taylor)

January 25, 2018

Matt Miller - "Education through Athletics: What I've Learned From Harvard Track and Field"

(advised by Amar Dhand)

January 28, 2018

Apoorva Rangan - "Adult-ish"

(advised by Diana Eck)

January 28, 2018

Molly Richmond - "Unexpected Gifts"

(advised by Jess Wala)

January 29, 2018

Emma Ling - "Let's Talk About Sex"

(advised by Caroline Lauer)

January 29, 2018

Berkeley Brown - "They Think They Know Better"

(advised by Brandon Terry)

January 30, 2018

Anwar Omeish - "To Be Vulnerable & To Hold It"

(advised by Brandon Terry)

January 30, 2018

Joey Wertz - "Southern Comfort"

(advised by Anna Ruman)

January 31, 2018

Ayanna Dunmore - "What are you?"

(advised by Ali Asani)

January 31, 2018

Jessica Pointing - "Quantum Computing"

(advised by Lisa Randall and Daniel Moroz)

February 1, 2018

Sean Gibney - "A Doctor's Greatest Gift"

(advised by Beth Terry)

February 1, 2018

Leo Hentschker - "Categories"

(advised by Charlie Tyson)

February 5, 2018

Connor Richardson - "Guidance, Structure, and Expectation - He Seeks to Please"

(advised by Will Doss Suter)

February 5, 2018

Sumhith Aradhyul - "Mother Tongue-Tied"

(advised by Sugata Bose)

February 6, 2018

Andy Gordon - "An ICEE as Blue as the Sky"

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

February 6, 2018

Tejal Patwardhan - "15 Mintutes"

(advised by Diana Eck)

February 7, 2018

Hanson Tam - "How do you spell sphygmomanometer?"

(advised by Paul Buttenwieser)

February 7, 2018

Flavia Cuervo - "Sore feet, happy heart"

(advised by Caitlin Casey)

February 8, 2018

Lisa Russo - "A Child's Love, a Child's Obligation"

(advised by Caitlin Casey)

February 8, 2018

Jessica Levy - "Sisters"

(advised by Evan Price)

February 11, 2018

Philipp Nowak - "Welcome to the Club"

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

February 11, 2018

Ryan Lawton - "Tick Tock"

(advised by Kay Merseth)

February 13, 2018

Mikael Tessema - "A Gamer's Response"

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

February 14, 2018

William Wang - "William, Will, Willy"

(advised by Ben Levy)

February 14, 2018

Kevin Stephen - "Youngest, Bravest"

(advised by Jonathan Fanton)

February 15, 2018

Mason Hale - "The Art of Being Vulnerable"

(advised by Noam Elkies)

February 15, 2018

Gaby Giotti - "Cool Aunt"

(advised by David Kim)

February 19, 2018

Isabel Espinosa - "Balancing Acts"

(advised by Jonathan Bruno)

February 19, 2018

Emma Dwight - "On Humility and the H-Bomb"

(advised by Livingston Taylor)

February 20, 2018

Christopher Robinson - "Perspective"

(advised by Caleb Gayle)

February 20, 2018

Alex Kahng - "Bubbie"

(advised by Charlie Tyson)

February 21, 2018

Ikeoluwa Adeyemi-Idowu - "Americanah"

(advised by Mahnum Shahzad)

February 21, 2018

Victoria Kwok - "I Don't Know"

(advised by Ben Levy)

February 22, 2018

Juliana Rodriguez

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

February 22, 2018

Andreas Vandris - "Patterns"

(advised by Steve Coit)

February 25, 2018

Rohan Pavuluri - "Three Layers of Motivation"

(advised by Jonathan Fanton)

February 25, 2018

NaYoung Yang - "Reflection Staredown"

(advised by Cassie Roberston)

February 27, 2018

Jorrion Wilson - "Endurance"

(advised by Allie Feldberg)

February 27, 2018

Saranya Vijayakumar - "Stalling for time"

(advised by Charlie Tyson)

February 28, 2018

Kendall Zhu - "YouTube gurus"

(advised by Amrita Dani)

February 28, 2018

Harshal Singh - "Reckless"

(advised by David Ager)

March 1, 2018

Abdur Rehman - "Loug Kya Kahain Gay"

(advised by Arjumand Masood)

March 4, 2018

Kaitlyn Greta - "A Good Samaritan"

(advised by Yanina Barrera)

March 4, 2018

Isabel Slavinsky - "The Silver Line"

(advised by Eli Schachar)

March 6, 2018

Menaka Narayanan - "Boxes"

(advised by Steve Coit)

March 6, 2018

Jonathan Bruno - "The Dining Hall"

March 7, 2018

Sal DeFrancesco - "New York, My Grandma, Me"

(advised by Charlie Tyson)

March 7, 2018