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The DACA Motif

I’ve waited 18 years. The talks of immigration reform on cable news are motifs in my life. “Illegals are taking jobs,” one conservative pundit says. […]

Writing the Script

We’re both staring at the floor of our shared bedroom. The smooth, shiny wooden surface, occasionally interrupted by a castaway sweater or a lonesome Stan […]

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Dur-FEES

Durfee’s: your best friend when you can’t make it to lunch or simply don’t like the dining hall menus. We’ve all feasted on a swipe […]

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Sugar and a Slice of Human Decency

My finals as a first-year college student were as expected: drawn-out, emotionally taxing and physically demanding. Taping my eyelids open in the library on late […]

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Life is Full of Surprises

I was six years old when I went to my first surprise party. My dad was turning 50, so my mom planned a bash for […]

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You Can’t Quit Instagram… Or Can You?

During one of Laurie Santos’ “Psychology and the Good Life” lectures she challenged her students to quit social media. She said something to the effect […]

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Lottery Tickets

Every Saturday night when I was in middle school, my father disappeared to a local gas station to buy his weekly lottery tickets just like […]

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Balancing Act

There’s a word in Chinese — often used to describe plots in literature and film — that describes a beginning and an end that parallel […]

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Ask Ayla

This week, let’s address your questions about the ever-present romantic force in our generation: dating apps. Question 1: I just matched with this amazing girl […]

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Open Sesame!

Doors and gates at Yale often have been subjected to memes and ridicule. Silliman’s incredibly heavy doors. Branford’s gate that is forever locked. But recently, […]

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#Meow Too

“Men are bad” is probably the biggest takeaway from 2017, so it’s no surprise that Kristin Roupenian’s short story “Cat Person” had the immediate resonance […]

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