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Commencement 2021
Two chefs, Ivan and Israel, prepare pizza behind the counter at Pinnochio’s Pizza and Subs on Winthrop Street. Pinnochio’s has often been a late-night favorite in Harvard Square, but as of late November 2021, only take-out orders can be placed after 9:30 p.m.
To define graduate students’ time during Covid-19 solely through the lens of academics would be to overlook the numerous details that humanize and differentiate each of their experiences.
The following individuals are not merely Harvard students they are also bakers and entrepreneurs, fathers and daughters, volunteers and Olympic-hopeful rowers. Eight students across five graduate schools sat down virtually with The Crimson to share their stories from an unprecedented year.
Daniel A. Arias, School of Public Health and GSAS
Daniel A. Arias studies the intersection of mental health and epidemiology, as well as health economics. By Courtesy Photo
Daniel A. Arias wishes his scholarship weren’t so relevant to the current moment.
Nick J. Grieco, a guitarist, is known by his friends as the one among them that continued to live in Allston after the rest moved elsewhere.
Nick J. Grieco moved to Boston in 2006 for his first year at the Berklee College of Music and relocated to Allston soon after. Fourteen years later, heâs still there. Even after watching friends move to other cities, he chose Allston as the place to build his network and launch his music career.
âI think my circles of friends that left before â they totally see me as the guy who stayed,â Grieco says.
Grieco stays for the same reasons that compelled him to settle in Allston in the first place: He recognized the opportunities a diverse neighborhood with a rich arts scene could offer a young guitarist early in his career. Allston, known by some as âRock City,â has been a creative hub since the â60s, cultivating a punk and alternative rock scene that bred the likes of Aerosmith.