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NANCY WALECKI
Tying it All Together: Reflections on Taylor Swift’s “invisible string”

Last week, I was walking on my hometown’s beach — the one where, four years ago, I found out I got into Yale — when […]

November 12, 2020

JACQUELINE KASKEL
My Journey to Cesarine: A Review of Shelby Mahurin’s “Serpent & Dove”

Amid my immersion in papers, problem sets and paperbacks, a flash of gold caught my eye. A gilded serpent slithered across my phone screen, weaving […]

November 5, 2020

GAMZE KAZAKOGLU
To Be A Clockwork Orange: Executing the Human Free Will in the Structures of Biopower

Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear? Alex: […]

November 5, 2020

MARS ADAMS
HalloWKND 2020: A Reflection

As an international student on campus for the fall semester, I came to Yale highly excited to celebrate the mythical, almost cultish commercial holiday that […]

October 29, 2020

ÁNGELA PÉREZ
Two Sides of the Same Coin

Plastered to the wall of my room are pictures that I’ve compiled over the years. One of them is of me and my friend Luna […]

October 22, 2020

ISABELLE QIAN
All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go

A couple of days ago, my mind decided to strike me with this truly terrible, saccharine and literarily offensive cliche: Quarantine was the cocoon that […]

October 15, 2020

SEX ON THE WKND
Sex on the WKND: Single in a Pandemic

Are you sick of mediocre man sex? In love with your econ TF? Worried corona has killed your love life? You’re in luck! WKND’s own anonymous […]

October 15, 2020

CLAIRE NING FANG
Complicated Feelings about Snakes and COVID

I don’t think I’m voicing an unpopular opinion when I say, to put it lightly, this pandemic sucks. We’re cut off and isolated, we’ve forbidden […]

September 17, 2020

EDA AKER
The Road (Trip) Not Taken

I’ve been pegged as a “mom” for as long as I can remember. One reason is that I spend an extreme amount of time with […]

September 17, 2020

JEVER MARIWALA & CAROLYN SACCO
FORK IT: Tasting New Haven with Carolyn and Jever

At 6 a.m. at Lucibello’s Italian Pastry Shop, Peter Faggio is already working his dough. He puts it through a sheeter to thin it out […]

September 17, 2020

HARRY RUBIN
“Cuties:” Not Much to Offer Beyond Questionable Dances

Some general rules to follow if you don’t want people to think you made a pedophile movie: 1) Try not to name your film “Cuties.” […]

September 17, 2020