Yale Daily News

As winter break approaches, the “Are you going back home for the holidays?” question pervades every conversation. It provokes nostalgic thoughts of home and flip-flop-less showers eclipsed by burnout and coffee past 8:00 p.m. The next question generally is, “So, where is home for you?”, which is the one to always get me, because home for me is 7,953 kilometers (4,942 miles) away. 

December 9, 2023

My mother always tells the story of how I started to read. My mother, sister and I would snuggle up in the same bed, turn on the bedside lamp and read our bedtime story. My sister would examine the illustrations as my mother read outloud. As we started getting sleepier, she would start skipping over sentences to get us to fall asleep faster. Apparently, after a while, I started to realize what she was doing and intervened, pleading, “Mommy read all of it please!” 

September 21, 2023

I open my eyes as the sun shines through the small, round window of my ninth floor dorm room. (Yes, I know, I live on the ninth floor of a building. Yes, we do have an elevator; no need to worry.) I have come to embrace Bingham Hall. I especially love the people, and living in such an enchanting building has made adapting much easier. I’m filled with joy every time I walk out the glamorous doors of one of the tallest residential buildings on campus. 

August 31, 2023

I’ve spent most of my life in trios. Maybe it was the Hermione Granger in me trying to find herself a Harry and a Ron, […]

April 7, 2023

“Mommy, when are we going to return Mina to the hospital?” Apparently, that’s what I asked my mother after a month of having my younger […]

March 2, 2023

The ISO and TSA are raising funds to donate to local relief organizations after Turkey and Syria were struck by earthquakes with magnitudes reaching 7.8, leaving over 7,000 dead and thousands trapped under rubble.

February 7, 2023

It’s 1:45 a.m. on a Sunday night (well, technically, a Monday morning) and you hear the much-dreaded announcement through the Bass Library speakers telling you […]

November 18, 2022

After a three-year hiatus, the Yale College Council brought back its “Last Comic Standing” show on Nov. 11.

November 14, 2022

The News caught up with Yale’s mascot Handsome Dan XIX, an Olde English Bulldogge, to talk about his semester so far.

November 8, 2022

Yale Repertory Theater begins its 2022-2023 season with its production of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”, staged from October 6 to October 29.

October 27, 2022