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RACHEL FOLMAR
Reflections on Two Weeks Locked inside a Granola Bar

In the months leading up to my arrival at Yale, I met students from almost all 14 residential colleges. Every time they introduced themselves over […]

September 17, 2020

MADDIE BENDER
Consider the Hot Dog

Hot: having a relatively high temperature; sexy; of intense and immediate interest Dog: a highly variable domestic mammal (Canis familiaris) closely related to the grey […]

September 17, 2020

MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS
Apocalypse in California — Coming to You Soon 

When I walked outside of my house in Stockton, California on a late-August afternoon, it was 115 degrees outside. White flecks of ash swirled down […]

September 11, 2020

GAMZE KAZAKOGLU
Deconstructing the Cinema (or My Reality?): A Review of “Lost Highway”

“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.” Spoken from a typical Lynchian smoke, red […]

September 11, 2020

IVANA RAMIREZ
I Volunteered As Tribute: The Untold Stories of Gap Year ’25s

Between Kelly Guilfoyle’s Effie-Trinket-like RNC speech and the unresolved murder hornets subplot, 2020 is continually resembling a poorly written dystopian YA novel. As main characters […]

September 11, 2020

TONY HAO
Saving Christina

It all goes back again. In New Haven. Late July. Ninety degrees. Hot and steamy. I’m walking down College Street. On my right is Sterling […]

September 11, 2020

ALEXA PULIDO RODRIGUEZ
Sweaty Adventures in the Trumbull Dungeon

Several days have gone by since I arrived at the tiny, but mighty, Trumbull College. My exodus to Yale began when I received move-in instructions […]

September 11, 2020

SIMI OLURIN
Dwindling Circle

COVID has ravaged every facet of society. It’s scary because with each day it becomes increasingly difficult to imagine life after COVID. Every conceivable aspect […]

September 11, 2020

LAUREN MOORE
Culture Shock in the Times of COVID-19

My last day in my home state of Texas, where COVID-19 cases outnumber Connecticut’s nearly 14 to one, consisted of rushed goodbyes and weird glances. […]

September 11, 2020

CLAIRE NING FANG
On the Moral and Aesthetic Value of Playing Games about Plagues: A Case Study

I’d like to begin this review with a response directed at the kind individual who read my “Quarantined in Taiwan” piece and took the time […]

September 2, 2020

ADDISON BEER
Can You Hear What is Scattered? A Review of Murakami’s “Hear the Wind Sing”

I first began to realize the power of writing during a summer program I attended after my junior year of high school, where I was […]

September 2, 2020