Edward Seol
Staff Columnist
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SEOL: Work harder, not smarter

Our generation loves the motto “work smarter, not harder,” but its meaning has been warped by college students at Yale and across this nation. We […]

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SEOL: Reclaiming our past

To commemorate the new decade, I flipped through worn yearbooks and folders, eventually stumbling upon a letter I wrote to myself five years ago. While […]

SEOL: Yale: stand up for Hong Kong

Fire and tear gas fill the air at Hong Kong Polytechnic University as protesters and police clash. Through the smoke and scattered seas of broken […]

SEOL: I love my college?

He adored residential colleges. He was too romantic about them. To him, their sense of love and belonging defined the core of Yale: community. Despite […]

SEOL: More than just a “break”

At Yale, the days go slow and the weeks go fast. In my memory, stretches of time blur together, each one hardly distinguishable from the […]

SEOL: Andrew Yang: a missed opportunity

My eyes fixed with awe on the sea of waving arms and flashing lights that permeated the television screen. Barack Obama walked across the Grant […]

SEOL: Embrace the pauses

Laughter and screams resonate from the L-dub courtyard, emanating from a ring of first years. From afar, they seem to be thriving as they enter […]