Yale Daily News

  Tonight, the Silliman common room is almost unrecognizable. The couches and chairs have been carted off and stored elsewhere; the rugs have been rolled […]

May 8, 2005

Contrary to popular (read: my) belief, it turns out that “joining the United States Army” does not immediately translate to “picking up a rifle, getting […]

January 24, 2005

A new year is upon us and with it the expectation of self-improvement. Another three semesters and I’ll be out on my own, expected to […]

January 24, 2005

As I returned to Yale from winter break, I was greeted by frigid weather, broken dorm plumbing and, most alarmingly, a new suitemate. Affable and […]

January 24, 2005

Food carts are to college kids what ice cream trucks are to kindergartners. When we were young, the tinny truck music sent us running to […]

November 17, 2004

There are two inherent design flaws in a Smokey the Bear costume. First, the eyes are in the snout, severely limiting one’s vision. Second, there […]

November 17, 2004

Yale Computing Assistants: the title conjures up images of a small and elite group of super-students who materialize from the nether regions of the Internet […]

November 17, 2004

I tried to write my first draft of this column in an actual blue book. I had hoped the nervous adrenaline that keeps my fingers […]

November 17, 2004

Once upon a time, in the very state in which we now reside, it was a very blustery day. Or at least I think it […]

October 7, 2004

As I sat around trying to generate theme ideas for the last Magazine I would oversee at the News, I wracked my brains for a […]

October 7, 2004

Food poisoning takes what, an hour to kick in? Maybe 30 minutes? Ten? But what happened to me this summer wasn’t food poisoning. It was […]

October 7, 2004