Yale Daily News

For the past two years, I’ve worked as an usher at Yale’s annual commencement ceremonies.

April 25, 2016

As I wrap up the excruciating process that is writing my senior essay, I’ve been thinking about some of the Great Big Ideas that have come out of the paper that will hopefully stay with me as a badge for losing so much sleep. I would say that sounds cheesy, but I’m writing about a fad diet that people followed in the 1970s, and cheese was actually forbidden, so I won’t.

April 8, 2016

On March 1, Yale is pulling the plug on our beloved panlist system. The panlist has been the superhighway for innumerable emails to and from Yale students since sometime around the turn of the millennium, making it not much younger than the current freshman class. Panlists deserve thoughtful reflection. Consider this an elegy.

February 26, 2016

In my last column (“A reform of substance,” Jan. 29), I discussed the Toxic Substances Control Act, a federal law that gives our Environmental Protection Agency the power to make sure that chemicals released into the environment pose little threat to human health. Since its passage in 1976, it has resulted in the ban of nine chemicals. “Good on the EPA!” you might think, as you take a swig from your plastic water bottle. But those nine chemicals are a woefully small cluster in a constellation of over 80,000 chemicals currently on the market, most of which have never been tested.

February 12, 2016

The situation in Flint, Michigan is an outrage. Residents there have been drinking water contaminated with lead, the result of incompetent city management, poor regulation and a long legacy of industrial pollution. Flint might seem an anomalous failure to protect the environment and the people living within it. But I suspect that the problem is, in fact, much larger than Flint.

January 29, 2016

As the semester wraps up, deadlines are on the mind. As bleak as it sounds, there’s no greater source for inspiration during finals than the […]

December 11, 2015

Dorothy Parker once said, “I hate writing, I love having written.” Her words resonated immediately. Parker wrote poetry, short stories and perhaps my favorite literary […]

December 4, 2015

Ah, The Game. My favorite confluence of Harvard and Yale, second only to the Ivy League Snapchat story. It’s a time where Yalies from across […]

November 20, 2015

There have been many conversations on campus this week. At one that I attended, there was one point raised that particularly struck me. One of my fellow students explained how long-term solutions are too often the white, liberal justification for complacency, bureaucracy and the status quo in the midst of a crisis like the one we currently face.

November 13, 2015

Two summers ago, I shared many of my meals with two kids, five and eight. I was working in Boston, and my sublet search led me to a family of four who were somehow crazy and warmhearted enough to let me live in a spare room in their home.

November 6, 2015

Last Wednesday, Oct. 15, the City of New Haven cracked down on York Street’s beloved food carts — among them, the Caseus grilled cheese truck, the Ay! Arepa cart and the Portobello Latin food cart.

October 30, 2015