Tag Archive: Stephen Pitti

  1. 8 Yale GIFs You Need to Be Using Right Now

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    Earlier this month, students in Brad Rosen’s “Law, Technology & Culture” lecture enjoyed a day in Reddit’s proverbial sun when their paean to songstress Sarah Bareilles went moderately viral. Their YouTube video is best understood as testament to a larger truth: Yalies, by and large, are good at the Internet.

    Proof abounds. We have RumpChat and Overheard at Yale. We’ve got multiple student-made Bluebooking apps, and one of Sam Tsui’s most recent YouTube videos has 11 million views, which is seven million more than the most popular video of the Israeli national anthem and ten million more than the official Spyglass Entertainment trailer for “The Love Guru.”

    Alas, a huge and evident gap threatens to undermine our virtual credibility: GIF-making. Although Yalies are happy to pilfer moving images from the BuzzFeed post du jour, we generally seem less eager to make GIFs of our own.

    Are we just incompetent, or is this a failure of nerve? Making GIFs is easy and fun (here are two guides): an excellent way to procrastinate, express yourself and increase your employability in a turbulent job market.

    whyichoseyalegif[media-credit name=”Marissa Medansky // Original video courtesy of YaleCampus” align=”alignleft” width=”400″]

     

    Really, what are you waiting for, Yale? I want to see you be brave. I want original GIFs, Yale GIFs — GIFs we can call our own. Here’s a few I made to get you started.

     

     

     

    1. A GIF for when you’re just really, really apathetic. 
     
    saloveyapathy[media-credit name=”Marissa Medansky // Original video courtesy of YaleCampus” align=”alignleft” width=”240″]
     


    2. A GIF to convey the coming of winter. 

     

     
    winteriscomingdmm[media-credit name=”Marissa Medansky // Original video courtesy of YaleCampus” align=”alignleft” width=”316″]


    3. A GIF for when you’re just done with the haters. 
     
    shillerout[media-credit name=”Marissa Medansky // Original video courtesy of GNC Global News Channel” align=”alignleft” width=”401″]
     


    4. A GIF to express how you feel about that guy in section. 
     
    bloomsurprise[media-credit name=”Marissa Medansky // Original video courtesy of YaleCampus” align=”alignleft” width=”400″] 


    5. A GIF for when you’re a winner. 
     
    gifwin[media-credit name=”Marissa Medansky // Original video courtesy of Edward Krajewski” align=”alignleft” width=”400″]
     


    6. A GIF for when you’re just not having it. 
    newdick[media-credit name=”Marissa Medansky // Original video courtesy of Vita Bella” align=”alignleft” width=”240″]


    7. A GIF for when you just want to dance.
     
    pittidancegif[media-credit name=”Marissa Medansky // Original video courtesy of lauratunbridge” align=”alignleft” width=”238″]
     


    8. And a GIF for when you just need to dance. 
    saloveygif[media-credit name=”Marissa Medansky // Original video courtesy of Yale College Council” align=”alignleft” width=”439″]

     

  2. Pitti ’91 reappointed Stiles master

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    The “most beloved figure at Yale” is here to stay.

    In an email to the Ezra Stiles community this afternoon, President-elect Peter Salovey and Dean of Yale College Mary Miller announced that Stephen Pitti ’91 will be re-appointed master of Stiles for a five-year term beginning July 1. The re-appointment was recommended by a committee of Stiles fellows that found “overwhelmingly positive support” for Pitti’s reappointment among students, fellows and staff in the college.

    “The decision was a pretty simple one,” said Matthew Jacobson, chair of the committee. “The committee emerged from our inquiry with the distinct impression that Pitti may well be the most beloved figure at Yale.”

    Pitti said he feels it is the role of the master to get to know students as “whole people,” not just in a classroom setting, in the same approach Yale College takes in the admissions process.

    “I would say that I’m very honored to be invited back as master of the college, and it’s certainly been a position that has been very exciting for me and my family to spend another five years or so around some of the most interesting people in the planet,” Pitti said.