Audrey Kolker
Contributing Reporter
Author Archive
COLUMN: College is a Joke

They are everywhere.  By “they” I mean the bells—at least if you’re walking, eating, or hoping to nap within a quarter mile of Harkness Tower. But I also mean the perpetrators of the pealing: the Guild of Carillonneurs.

College is a Joke: Who are the funniest people on Yale’s campus?

Jack Moffatt ‘25 is kind of tall, but he won’t say how tall. His hair is curly. His glasses are glasses. He can jump pretty […]

POETRY: Crickets

for Aaron   Did some Googling: The crickets we hate are two hundred million years older than we are  and they invented music By “we” […]

NONFICTION: Tor Olsson’s Reputation Precedes Him

The Legend of Barefoot Kid crosses state lines two weeks into the school year, when my friend Lila calls to tell me about the insane […]

What The Sex Lives of College Girls Gets Right — And Wrong

Just when you were reflecting on your first ever semester at college — the classes, the people and the terrible decisions that keep you up […]

FICTION: Eighteen

I thought it was a joke when Tyler told me he wanted to get married, so I laughed — a real loud, full belly cackle […]

All 30 Tracks on “Red (Taylor’s Version),” Ranked By How Much They Make Me Want to Renounce Love, Drop Out of College and Become a Sheep Farmer in Iceland or Some Other Place That Has Low Population Density

Due to some copyright nonsense with Scooter Braun that I did not care to follow and know absolutely nothing about, Taylor Swift re-released her fourth […]

Yale’s Timmy T Takes

It’s Timothée Chalamet’s World — And I Wish I Wasn’t Living In It By Audrey Kolker   Maybe it’s all two minutes and 33 seconds […]