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I hope my directness wasn’t too harsh, but why self-censor? Sticks and stones, am I right?

December 6, 2024

I want my fellow brothers and sisters to choose to learn about the Bible in churches and community gatherings. But I also want my Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Agnostic, Atheist and other non-Christian friends to go to school without the interference of a Christian Nationalist agenda that blends the necessary line between religion and politics. I want Bibles to be out of public schools. 

December 6, 2024

Imagine a group of students so locked in that they remain unfazed in their studies during the Naked Run. As their peers hoot and holler, these students sit around a table together with their noise-canceling headphones, unbothered by any sort of shenanigans, naked or not. They grind throughout the Naked Run. Grind in a studious sense. Not a lewd one. 

December 5, 2024

You do not have to prove anything else. You intrinsically possess that unique ability to clear hurdles into oblivion as you become all that you undertake. If you want to meet and exceed the next set of invisible metrics, continue being you. You possess the talent but you must relinquish the belief that you control the situation and its outcomes. And when — not if — we have setbacks in the future, we must remember that they do not constitute failures on our part or reflections of our value.

December 5, 2024

So I reach the central tension — America faces a culture steeped in distrust and misinformation, where dishonesty is often justified by appeals to ideology. This erosion of trust has weakened the authority of our central institutions. The path forward demands an answer to a profound challenge: how can we rebuild integrity and restore confidence?

December 5, 2024

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

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

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

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

So, as you consider the Sumud Coalition’s new divestment referendum I ask you, dear reader: are you with those fighting authoritarianism, or against them? 

November 19, 2024