Harvard grad creates musical thesis on surviving cancer
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Not so much a lifesaving prescription as it was a lifesaver in the dark, music is what fed Taylor Carol’s hopes. Quarantined in a hospital isolation unit when he was 12 after receiving a bone marrow transplant in his battle with leukemia, he spent six months trying to regain the ability to walk, eat, and see. “In that painful darkness, music really became a savior, a crutch for me,” said Carol, who had Dave Matthews Band, The Who, and John Mayer in heavy rotation. “I found something I could really grasp onto for the meaning of life.” That experience formed his forever connection to music, one he would follow to becoming an ambassador for children’s cancer, an aspiring singer and songwriter, and to producing a profoundly personal senior thesis in the form of a record album held together by his...