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Tourists enjoy a socially-distant afternoon in the Yard.
When she lived on campus, Julia Welsh â23 spent most of her time focusing on classes and hanging out with friends.
Once the coronavirus upended her collegiate life, Welsh, who has lived at home in Philadelphia this past year, took on a slew of responsibilities outside of her coursework, including supporting her family financially, buying groceries, and completing household chores.
Overwhelmed, Welsh said she was forced to prioritize her obligations to her family over her academics, prompting her to drop one of her fall courses.
âI remember being really disappointed in myself,â Welsh said. âIf I was on campus, Iâd probably be able to focus more and I would have more time to not deal with family responsibilities and to focus on this class that I ended up dropping.â
Harvardâs Undergraduate Council launched a weeklong campaign last month to support a project aimed at explaining how the University collects and uses student data.
The campaign â dubbed the Transparency Project â started as a final project created by Yousuf Bakshi â23 and Anjali Chakradhar â23 in the class Computer Science 105: âPrivacy and Technology,â taught by Computer Science professor James âJimâ H. Waldo. Bakshi and Chakradhar are Council members who represent Mather House and Cabot House, respectively.
The project â a collaboration with newly formed club Harvard Undergraduate Initiative for Technology and Society â aimed to bolster student awareness about data privacy, Chakradhar said.
âWe want to help build the next generation of data-aware citizens who can then go on to advocate for themselves and other people,â Chakradhar said. âWe thought that the best place to start was right here.â