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by jiyeon kim Last summer, as the global pandemic raged through Los Angeles, I decided to sort through boxes in my attic. Among the mementos I stumbled across were twenty issues of The Weekly Murmur: Tracings of Student Life, a newsletter published at HMS from October 2003 to April 2004. Reading them, I was touched, delighted, and amused; the articles were informal snapshots of my HMS and Harvard School of Dental Medicine classmates and captured our last year together prior to scattering to our clinical clerkships. As far as I know, the cache I found is the only remaining physical copy of this series, and I suspect my chief reason for saving them from the recycling bin was my nostalgic attachment as the publication’s editor-in-chief. ....