Yale Daily News

There’s a reason we’ve been keeping up with the Kardashians.

January 28, 2016

After I chose Yale, my older cousins called to congratulate me. They had one piece of advice about starting college: Don’t rush a sorority. I […]

January 21, 2016

In 2009, the Glee cast’s cover of Journey’s infamous “Don’t Stop Believin’” brought a small musical television show on Fox to the forefront of American […]

December 11, 2015

A few months ago, I got lunch with one of those people you hang out with at the beginning of Yale but not much during the […]

December 3, 2015

When I was a child, I used to write short stories about girls like my friends and me.

November 13, 2015

When I talked to my mom about the racially charged incidents of the past week, she was worried. After I described to her the reported incident at SAE, she asked, “Do you think they would’ve let you in?”

November 5, 2015

Her grandmother makes her memorize classic quotes and phrases, such as the famous line from Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet”: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

October 29, 2015

I went on one date in high school. My gentleman-caller kept trying to play that game from the movie “500 Days of Summer,” where two people say the word “penis” progressively louder in a public place. I told my mother that I would never date again.

October 15, 2015

Three days into my senior year, I sat on my therapist’s couch and said, “I’m ready to graduate.”

October 8, 2015

On Monday evening in Sprague Hall, Hilton Als — a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine — presented the opening remarks for the Windham-Campbell Festival, an annual literary event hosted by the University to celebrate writing from across the globe. It was his remarks — focusing on the expression of the pain and trauma of inhabiting marginalized bodies in America — that left the deepest impression

October 1, 2015

As we continue to process the results of the survey and what they say about our campus, I think we need to be mindful of how this place is experienced by differently bodied people.

September 24, 2015