Maria Arozamena

Love. Sounds big. Sounds scary. But maybe it doesn’t have to be? 

With Valentine’s day coming up, we at the WKND set out to find where love has been tucked away in all of Yale’s nooks and crannies. Here’s where Yale freshmen find love in their everyday lives.

“My girlfriend loves the Gheav grapes so I like to leave some in her suite with a note saying how much I love her.” 

– Charlie Humphreys ’28

“Whenever I have a lot of work he’ll leave me some of those Awake chocolates from the bow wow — or Gheav grapes. He knows I love those.” 

– Amelia Wyler ’28

“Every time I make plans with my friends they tell me the start time is five minutes earlier than it actually is because they know I’m going to be at least 10 minutes late to everything.”  

– Julian Raymond ’28

“My mom sends me little random packages, like washcloths or sunscreen. Even when I have a busy week and forget to call my parents, it reminds me that they’re always thinking about me.” 

– Michelle Park ’28

“I hide a note for my girlfriend in her room every time I visit her so she can find them after I leave.”

– Garrett Curtis ’28 

“Apple has a delayed message function where you can send texts that send at a specific time so whenever I’m getting up way later than my girlfriend, I’ll send them timed for exactly when she wakes up.” 

– Colin Levine ’28

“It’s the unprompted things. My mom and I text each other ‘I love you’ unprompted or she’ll send photos of me as a little kid unprompted.” 

– Amelia Kingsley ’28

“My dad sends me a video every day of him with my cat saying I love you.” 

– Chloe Milloy ’28

“I live in L-Dub but always walk my friends back to Vandy and Bingham after classes so we can share a few more minutes together.” 

– Aiden Zhou ’28

“I send the New York Times Spelling Bee to my family group chat every day and we try to get the pangram together.” 

– Nate Stein ’28

“Every day for the first two months of being long distance, my boyfriend wrote about his day and whatever we’d talked about in a notebook. Then he put stars on all the important days and gave me that notebook to look back on whenever I miss him. Now it cheers me up whenever I read it.” 

– Tenzin Youdon ’28  

“My sister and I both have a shopping addiction so we are constantly FaceTiming each other to show our hauls.” 

– Lejla Regan ’28

“Every week I stop by Ms. Annette, the flower lady outside of HQ, and buy a flower for a different one of my friends.” 

– Grace Malko ’28

“Every day my friends from home and I send each other voice memos that have to be at least five minutes long then I listen to them like podcasts.” 

– Mary Lee Murray ’28

“Every time my roommate Leah goes to Gheav she buys me some Cheez-Its because she knows they’re my favorite.” 

– Hailey Wondem ’28

“My roommate Hailey and I share a lot of clothes. I’ve noticed that whenever either of us go shopping we’ve been buying clothes we know both of us would wear.”

– Leah Mock ’28  

“My best friend and I wrote each other 25 letters for different situations that could happen in our first year away from each other in university like when you’re on the plane, when you need a laugh, when you meet someone you connect with, reading one always makes my day.” 

– Amanda Lourie ’28 

“I love complimenting other people whenever I can. Just because something is easy and small doesn’t mean it’s any less special.” 

– Siena Valdivia ’28