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NGARMBOONANANT: What streetlights tell

I don’t know when it hit me that I was leaving Yale, but there’s one moment I remember particularly well.

NGARMBOONANANT: The end of big things

Big ponds are drying up all around us. Small ponds are burgeoning. We instead choose what particular small pond we want to plunge into.

NGARMBOONANANT: Stay in, Ella

If Wood stays, the residents of Ward 7 will be given that chance to reflect. If she drops out of the race, these residents will be deprived of any direct instrument to express themselves.

NGARMBOONANANT: Salovey, speak out on drinking

An 18-year-old drinking age — or 19-year-old, in order to avoid legal drinking by high school seniors — would complete the circuit in our “safety first” alcohol strategy.

NGARMBOONANANT: Nudging Yale

Harnessing inertia, or “nudging,” can help us promote better policy outcomes.

NGARMBOONANANT: Boycott G-Heav

If you can stomach complicity in G-Heav’s exploitation, go on and continue to buy from them. But if you feel like I feel — upset, betrayed or unable to look squarely into a G-Heav worker’s eyes knowing the abuse — then help stop it.

NGARMBOONANANT: How Boston makes us feel

If there is one thing we can learn from this tragedy, it is that we can stop pretending we can do it all on our own.

NGARMBOONANANT: Abolish the rooming lottery

Americans love equality of opportunity and are wary of equality of outcome — and for good reason. But there are some instances when equality of outcome is desirable. The same is true for housing.

NGARMBOONANANT: Admissions’ coffee test

I remain firm that understanding a candidate’s personality is worth risking a slight increase in subjectivity.

NGARMBOONANANT: For mandatory P.E.

My proposal is this: bring back the P.E. requirement.

NGARMBOONANANT: The city and us

Try walking to Chipotle alone.