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I think back to my last canvassing trip before the 2024 election with Yale Dems. I had a respectful conversation with a voter in northeastern Pennsylvania who, from the start, told me she was voting for the slate of candidates which were not mine. Although, she would still take my literature. I continued down the street only to run into her again, this time while she was getting into her car and away from neighbors. She beckoned me over to quietly explain that, after talking with me and looking over the state candidates’ literature, she would give them a consideration. 

December 3, 2024

Every serious athlete will — at the end of their career — experience a unique type of death. The best thing anyone ever said to me after I competed at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games was not “congratulations,” but “I’m sorry for your loss.” It validated the period of mourning that came next, acknowledging an emptiness that seemed otherwise embarrassing to admit and confusing to describe. I didn’t know I needed grief to be named. But in the aftermath of it all, when the Games no longer cast a light but a shadow on my life, realizing that some form of depression was inevitable came as a huge relief. 

December 3, 2024

One of the most politically pressing discussions I’ve had in class this semester was about a fourth-century saint: Augustine of Hippo. In his book “City […]

November 25, 2024

Yale’s Intramural sports program is one of my favorite single aspects of Yale College. It encapsulates everything that makes Yale great in my eyes: friendly […]

November 22, 2024

On Monday morning, Oct. 21, students were either overjoyed or devastated when opening their inbox to find an email from the athletics office announcing the […]

November 22, 2024

Because I won the lottery! Last November, I published my most controversial article to date: Why I’m not going to the Yale-Harvard game. That article […]

November 22, 2024

It’s time to move past the two-party system.  November comes around and what were once friendships and communities are suddenly split by insurmountable chasms separating […]

November 22, 2024

Maybe you learn more from a C than from an A. As a community of Yalies and more broadly as college students, many of us […]

November 20, 2024

The greatest problem facing our world is not mass hunger or poverty. It is not climate change or racism or prejudice or war or terrorism. It is one, six letter word, more influential and leveling than all of these factors combined. It possesses profound destructive power, but its remedy could fundamentally change the trajectory of our world.

November 20, 2024

Because at the end of the day, it is also not productive to conclude that it is all hopeless. Like many of my peers, I cast my first vote in a presidential election for Harris. I am just as disappointed in the results as anyone else, even if I am not as surprised.

November 20, 2024

Your vote in this referendum is not dependent on your race, class, religion, political affiliation or any identity you hold. Instead, I believe your vote is about the kind of world you want to create. It is about making sure our institutions, locally and nationally, are accountable to the will of the people. It is about investing in and practicing the principles of democracy at every level. It is a simple message to Yale’s 16 trustees: students want Yale to be a source of life, not a contributor to death. 

November 19, 2024