Victoria Hall-Palerm
HALL-PALERM: The ultimate test

When we graduate from Yale, our first step, be it a job or be it graduate school, isn’t just a matter of getting on a path that will allow us to feel self-assured.

HALL-PALERM: Facing the ugly truth

We as a society have a systemic inability (or unwillingness) to face the ugly truth of rape and assault.

HALL-PALERM: The great man theory of shopping

My piece of advice is not to confuse a great professor, in the sense of an inspiring and effective educator, with a “great” professor.

PALERM: Almost-senior blues

Senior year at Yale is a huge exercise in treating oneself; to a certain extent, it seems like an opportunity to take a year of self-analysis and reflection.

HALL-PALERM: Put aside the competition

Every single time someone around us attains something, no matter how irrelevant it is to our interests, most students’ first reaction is anything but excitement.

HALL-PALERM: The real Yale-NUS

To me, like to most Yale students, Yale-NUS is rather more of an abstraction than it is a real thing we spend time thinking about.

HALL-PALERM: What’s your thing?

I have yet to ever talk to someone who responds to the question of what he or she does with the answer, “I take classes.”

HALL-PALERM: Faux forgetfulness

It is all too common for people at Yale to meet one another and have a real conversation, albeit a superficial one, and then completely forget about that person’s existence.

HALL-PALERM: We don’t need to be OK

In our quest to continue to be “fine” and function smoothly and without hitches like pesky emotions, I worry that people on this campus didn’t take the time to feel sufficiently sad about Sam See’s death.

HALL-PALERM: Help us, Symplicity

At the end of the day, the thing that’s scary for non-finance-and-consulting types is not that we don’t have a job locked down.

HALL-PALERM: A burglary and a failed system

Why exactly do we prosecute and imprison people? Is it to make people like me, whose life was affected by their acts, feel better?