Author Archives: Teo Soares

I write these columns to remind myself that certain things are true.

People, I think, are generally happier in the future tense.

The tapping process sucks. I’ve heard folks defend societies writ large, but I’ve never heard anyone defend the protracted, un-transparent and downright mean way societies select their members.

Misdemeanors are mildly aggravating when perpetrated by others, but they can stir hurricanes in your soul if you know yourself to be guilty of the same crimes. And when it comes to your parents, matters are even worse.

What interests me are the subtle markers of Yalie-ness.

So I began to search, within myself, for the gumption to put my hand to the fire. It didn’t come easy; I was afraid I’d sear my fingers.

I’m four months short of four years at Yale, and I want to drown in their every instant.

It implies that, by letting immigrants in—that is, by letting them realize their supposed dream — Americans are doing them a favor.

Sometimes I lose sight of the fact I’m not going to live forever.

In Texas we don’t vote for Democrats (not often, that is — we elected Jimmy Carter in 1976, and I guess we’ve been repenting since). So on Tuesday night, when Fox and MSNBC and CNN called the election for Obama, a good number of my high school friends turned to Jesus. One guy, a political »

A fallen tree is a little like a beached whale, or a door off its hinges or the propeller of a wind turbine traveling on a highway strapped to the bed of an 18-wheeler. What strikes you is not the explanation behind the circumstances — the series of events that toppled the tree or caused »

I turned 22 last Friday. I had seen it coming — birthdays tend to fall on the same day every year — but the first “Happy Birthday” still took me a little by surprise. It appeared on my Facebook on Thursday, a while before midnight, from a friend in a different time zone. It was »