Simar Bajaj

Simar Bajaj is a student at Harvard University studying the History of Science and a research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine. He has previously written for the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Washington Post, Guardian, Smithsonian, and Boston Globe.

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I Got My First Haircut At Age 17

And with it, writer Simar Bajaj shed more than his four-foot mane