Yale Daily News

For every mile she runs, Jennifer Sun GRD ’19 snaps a photo of surrounding foliage with a camera lens attached to her phone, a recent purchase borne of her burgeoning photography hobby.

April 20, 2020

Axel Källenius ’23 isn’t afraid. At his family’s home in Stockholm, Sweden, Källenius is pondering Proust, disagreeing with Kierkegaard and admiring Nietzsche. He is enjoying the time to reconnect with his family, the living-at-home phase that is no longer a relic of childhood and simply “appreciating things” he hadn’t before.

April 17, 2020

It was Caplan’s love of music that brought her to work at the University for a few years upon her graduation from Ithaca College. Now, it is her inability to play music with her band that constitutes one of the biggest disruptions in her daily life due to COVID-19 quarantine.

April 16, 2020

Adrienne Sharpe, a library service assistant at the Beinecke, no longer spends her days among the fragile tomes. Instead, she works, cooks, dances, reads and meditates at her home in West Haven with her husband, Kurt, and daughter, Evey.

April 16, 2020

As most of us stay home and follow the news regarding the latest policies enacted to help battle COVID-19, Connecticut state Sen. Alex Kasser is working to shape those policies for her community from the ground up.

April 16, 2020

For people like Lu who live within a residential college, the emptiness has been especially noticeable. The dining hall, usually a bustling hub, is dark. The rooms, too, are missing their late-night glow from the occasional studying night owl.

April 15, 2020

Andre Faria’s ’21 apartment building across from Alpha Delta Pizza feels empty now. “A lot of people’s letters are just piling up."

April 15, 2020

Yale College Council President Kahlil Greene ’21 is steering the YCC ship from an apartment in Maryland — with the occasional break to watch pandemic-related movies.

April 14, 2020

Kem Edwards ’49 is bearing the recent changes to Yale and New Haven gracefully. After all, he has seen Yale through many more.

April 14, 2020

When Tsai speaks of her life today, there is a sense of a divide: a before and after. BQ and AQ: Before Quarantine and After Quarantine. Or, even more accurately, BR and AR: Before Rock Climbing and After Rock Climbing.

April 13, 2020

The eldest of five children, Jessai Flores ’23 is hunkering down in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie, Texas, for the quarantine and thinking about his mother, a healthcare professional.

April 13, 2020