Alexander Medel
Staff Columnist
Alexander Medel is a staff columnist for the WKND desk. His fortnightly travel column, "On the Road," covers his experiences on road trips across America. Originally from San Jose, California, he is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College majoring in Political Science and History.
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My Home, California

California, as Frank Sinatra once sang, is “a land that paradise could well be jealous of.” To the thespian, it is where stars achieve immortality […]

Triumphs and trickery: tracing the history of the Yale-Harvard Rivalry

It was a cold autumn day in the middle of November. The leaves were falling, and the days grew shorter. A crowd of 2,000 spectators […]

A movie for midnight

It is midnight on a warm weekend in November. The clouds sail sleepily by your window. The shadows of leaves dance on the wall. The lights are low, and the room is illuminated by starlight and the screen in front of you. You have a remote on one hand, and someone special on the other. And you wonder, as the screen loads, about what movie the two of you should watch. You ponder for a while, considering the options in your mind after a voice by your side tells you to decide.

Just an Old Sweet Song

Pleasant, persistent and pleasurable. These are the characteristics of any earworm: a song, tune or melody that reverberates constantly in one’s mind. An earworm can […]

If I Had Dinner with Frank Sinatra

If I traveled back in time to have dinner with one individual, I would sit in a cornered booth at Patsy’s on 56th Street in […]

Visiting Vigan

Gleaming trinkets suspended from store fronts. Savory scents emanating from food stalls. Clacking carriage wheels on cobblestones. These were the sights, smells and sounds that […]

Yale celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival

Yale’s cultural groups organized a variety of events last week, from a “Moonlight Mingle” to a movie screening, to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.