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KALINA MLADENOVA
Day in the Life in Quarantine

A hard-boiled egg and blueberry muffin for breakfast, sweet potato bowl for lunch and steak for dinner. Oh, and of course, one simply cannot forget […]

September 2, 2020

HAILEY O'CONNOR
Reviewing Folklore, an Album of Intertwined Connections

It’s been autumn since July — and we have Taylor Swift to thank for that. Since her album “folklore” was surprise-released in late July, my […]

September 2, 2020

PHOEBE LIU
How to Microwave an Egg — Or Just Don’t

Note: Don’t read this if you’re vegan. I’m including this disclaimer because I once sent a vegan friend daily Snapchat videos of me poking eggs […]

September 2, 2020

MATTHEW KLEINER
One Step Ahead or One Step Behind?

When I landed in Bologna, an airport worker asked me to stand still so she could take my temperature with a small device, something like […]

May 6, 2020

CATHERINE LEE
Eli and I: My Experience of Commodification at Yale

In the spring of 2016, I fell in love. Our relationship reached a low point when he threatened to dump me a year and a […]

April 23, 2020

JUDITH MCCARTNEY
Graduating in a Global Pandemic: It’s Okay to Be a Little Bit Heartbroken

Last month, I joined millions of students across the world in beginning my final semester of university online. Through the Yale School of Public Health, […]

April 23, 2020

MINA CARACCIO
Now That We Are Looking

My gaze once traveled in between the backs of anonymous heads toward the professor lecturing on stage. Today it lands on rows of faces illuminated […]

April 23, 2020

ZOE LARKIN
We Need Community

I don’t know about you, but lately I’ve been very lonely.  The year is 2020. A mysterious new disease is mercilessly stealing the lives of […]

April 17, 2020

KELSEY BOWEN
The Dinner Table

I grew up in a household that had family meals every night. We usually ate late – after battling the endless congestion of D.C. evening […]

April 16, 2020

SYDNEY GRAY
Searching for the Light

 “JESUS TAKE THE WHEEEELLLL. TAKE IT FROM MY HANDS. ’CAUSE I CAN’T DO THIS ON MY OWN.”  Catholic by birth but converted agnostic, Mom still […]

April 9, 2020

MARA HOPLAMAZIAN
Out of the Qloset

Ale Campillo’s favorite shoes — before they lost them to mold during a tragic summer flood — were a pair of suede wedges. Chunky, dandelion-yellow, […]

April 9, 2020