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It is difficult for me to remember what the magic of Yale used to feel like, to reminisce on something that I have already begun […]

May 23, 2021

The heavy metal door swings open, revealing white brick walls dipped in murals of butterflies and enough inspirational quotes to fill a scrapbook. Malcolm X […]

March 23, 2020

Editors’ Note: This piece originally appeared in the 2019 First Year Issue, published on August 2, 2019. I am a young woman with the iridescence […]

August 9, 2019

When I was 6 years old, I thought that all Christians were Chinese. I had gone to an “Asian church” all my life, partially because, […]

September 18, 2018

As a young Chinese-American girl, my favorite Disney princess was the one I identified most strongly with — Pocahontas. She was the only one who […]

September 4, 2018

To the prefrosh: As I write this, carefree music is wafting through Cross Campus, overlapping with notes of laughter and undertones of conversation. To my […]

April 27, 2018

“Just walk through that door and go up the stairs,” one of the dining hall workers assures me. I’m skeptical, largely because the door says […]

April 12, 2018

We fight our way out of the bustling underground of Penn Station as the train rumbles away on the steel tracks, tousling our hair and […]

March 30, 2018

If my residential college affiliation were calculated by where I eat my meals, I’d be one third LiMur, one third Hoplite and one third Sillimander. […]

March 1, 2018

It started with a simple Facebook post … “Is anyone selling first year formal tickets? Please message me if you are.” “Lonely boi looking for […]

February 15, 2018

In my phone’s voice memos, there’s a recording titled “Follow your dreams.” It’s a 25 second recording from an episode of “How I Met Your […]

February 2, 2018