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My Yale Anti-Bucket List

I’m about to begin my last month of college. It’s terrifying, exciting and mostly insomnia-inducing.

April 10, 2015

A Desire to Be Heard

If you ever want your mind bent, try going through your Facebook history. If you don’t have a Facebook account, good job on getting into heaven.

April 3, 2015

Strawberry ice cream, and why it’s the worst

It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone hates strawberry ice cream. “Foucault once said ‘Strawberry ice cream is the worst,’” Grace Phillips ’15 said.

April 3, 2015

Death in the Age of Facebook

Olivia and I hadn’t been particularly close and hadn’t felt any obligation to keep in touch after camp ended. But, when I came across her profile, the words “Remembering Olivia” occupied the space where just her name should have been, and I had the chilling feeling of encountering a ghost.

March 27, 2015

MAISIE MATTIA
A Genealogy of Solitude

I am going to begin by saying something in poor taste. But I am holding out my hand to you as I say it, and I hope you will trust me.

March 27, 2015

Sexual Healing

College is widely understood to broaden one’s sexual horizons.

February 27, 2015

Pop Art

I once tried to buy an original Roy Lichtenstein at a garage sale. I was nine years old and when I asked the owner “if the piece was authentic,” he laughed for a moment before becoming deathly serious and telling me that, yes, indeed it was.

February 27, 2015

The Corpse of Fine

There is a type of Buddhist meditation that requires monks to find a corpse and meditate over its decay.

February 27, 2015

The Road to Heaven is a Two-Way Street

When I met Katie, I’d already had plenty of practice giving my friends the benefit of the doubt. Whether that meant believing something about the past, the way I did with Julia, or hoping for a glamorous future, as with Katie, I trusted in possibilities for them that I would have liked for myself.

February 20, 2015

Why Asian Americans Need to Watch “Fresh Off The Boat”

For a long time, I have passively accepted the fact that I would have to prove to others that I was more than my media representation, but with “Fresh Off The Boat” I may not longer have to. Next time, when my non-Asian friends ask what it’s like to be me, I just might tell them to watch the show instead.

February 20, 2015

Can I Get Your Number?

I discovered my superpower thanks to the Enneagram, a test that can sort anyone into one of nine personality profiles. Like the other, more famous Myers-Briggs (which basically every corporation and private school in America now uses), the Enneagram promises that we can be explained, boxed up in ostensibly unique, yet totally generalized, packages.

February 13, 2015