Author Archives: Abigail Carney

On Thursday evening, I saw my parents for the first time in two months. I was excited to see them and nervous about how the weekend would go. I also had a chemistry test Friday that felt a lot realer than sitting down to eat with Mom and Dad. We met each other for dinner »

At a climate action rally put on by the Connecticut branch of grassroots environmental organization 350.org, I wondered if 350 million of these would be enough to reverse global warming? The event was one of over 2000 climate activism rallies taking place across the globe to “lead to real, lasting, large-scale change,” as 350.org billed »

Occupy Wall Street, a protest movement started by hundreds of people gathered in downtown Manhattan to protest the current state of capitalist America, has been going on for several weeks. Its main message is that 1 percent of Americans control 80 percent of the country’s wealth. Protestors’ rallying cry is “we are the 99 percent.” »

With shopping period officially over, we’ve finished agonizing over the seminars we didn’t get into and the course areas we need to fulfill. The distributional requirements are a lovely way of forcing single-minded Yalies into a well rounded curriculum. Even if we do take “Fractal Geometry” for our QR or Czech for our language we’ll »