Author Archives: Tao Tao Holmes

But for me and most of the people I’ve met at Yale, we spent the first few weeks wondering how we’d wound up here.

If, my dear Ms. Patton Jr., you are in your fourth year and still single, drop the self-pity and lift up your chin.

Chatter about gender-neutral suites often rests on a seesaw of stereotypes.

But do it for yourself — improving your writing not for publication, but for you to know that each time it’s a little bit better.

The living situation that Yale offers is an opportunity to understand yourself through the eyes of others.

Our biennial pilgrimage to Harvard rests on a transient trust in chance and the unknown — two ambiguous entities that most Yalies have long striven to avoid.

My dad whips up a mean slice of toast. His freshly brewed tea is hard to beat, and his omelettes are amazingly edible. That said, when my mom left more than two weeks ago to visit family in China, she took fundamental solo-husband-survival precautions and left a week’s worth of home-cooked meat dishes in the »

I remember being younger and hearing horror stories about college: students surviving off ramen, the kleptomaniac roommate, bouncing hot dogs, the nymphomaniac roommate, mystery meat, beer and Dubra diets, the freshman fifteen, the freshman fifteen roommate. Actually, most of them were definitely food-related. Particularly the roommate who steals your food is seriously the worst. After »

I got annexed. But that was hardly the concern. The concern was that tucked up away in the lofty fifth floor of Vanderbilt, my suitemates and I would all get singles. Sorry — what? Yeah, that’s usually the reaction I receive. I repeat: I was worried that I would get a single. At this point »

In an effort to transcend its reputation as a social organization, the Junior Class Council has launched a new series of pre-professional information panels designed to provide guidance to juniors. Thursday’s panel on careers in law was the first in a chain of nine panels to be offered on Thursdays throughout the spring semester until »

Fierce Advocates, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender service and advocacy group, held a conference for high school students Saturday on Old Campus. The free conference, called Generation Equality, brought 62 students and 20 teachers from 21 high schools in and around New Haven to Yale’s campus. Yale undergraduates led workshops for the students, including »

At a Pierson College Master’s Tea on Monday, journalist and author Dave Cullen addressed a small audience of fewer than twenty students about the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado — and despite the fact that most of the attendees were young children when the shooting took place, audience memebers said the tragic »