First-Year Issue 2021: Weekend Archives

JACQUELINE KASKEL

That’s Amore! Your Guide to New Haven Apizza

“Just pizza? Let me tell you about the thing you say is just pizza,” Marshall Erikson once contested on the sitcom “How I Met Your […]

CLASS OF 2025: Letters to Selves

Every Yalie has gone through the nervous summer before their first year –– wondering what Yale will be like and who they will become. For this Spissue, the News reached out to prefrosh and asked them to write a “Letter to their Future Selves.” In these, they speculate on who they will be and what college will be like. Click below to check out what they wrote!

Letters

RENA LIN

Finding Yourself in a Campus Larger than Life

The very first time I visited Yale, it filled me with a sense of wonder. It left me thinking things like, “Wow, I can’t wait […]

CHRISTION ZAPPLEY

A Tale of Two Yales: A guide to letting go of your “Gilmore Girls” fantasy

Congratulations and welcome to Yale! If you’re anything like me, you can appreciate the value of a certain seven season length series known as “Gilmore […]

PHOEBE LIU, CLAIRE NING FANG, KELLY FARLEY & ERIN BAILEY

Yalies Share Their Gratitude

This year has been tough, but there have been joyful moments, too. We asked Yale students from different class years to write about some of […]

RAFAELA KOTTOU

The Truth About Love at Yale

If you are reading this, I suppose you’ve already spent hours daydreaming about finding love at Yale. How’d I know? Well, I was a […]

SEAN PERGOLA

What You Didn’t Know You Needed for Your First Year at Yale

It’s hard to remember everything you need for the big move to Yale, and you’re bound to forget something or other at home. Worry not! […]

KELLY FARLEY

Finding Places to Find Love at Yale

I am here to counteract the advice given by a professor whose class I shopped on the first day of my first year. He […]

ERIN BAILEY

A letter to my past self

Dear Erin, It’s me, but 2021 me — I know that number does not even seem real. You’re all the way in high school, probably on […]