Yale Daily News

I rap the open door three times. I dressed up today; in these lonely, lazy days of quarantine, my usual uniform has been bathing suit, […]

April 9, 2020

Originally, I’d planned to spend the March break snoozing in my dorm room, watering my suitemate’s plants in the common room and perhaps catching up […]

April 9, 2020

I’m out of breath as I stomp my feet on dirt and gravel, beside small colored houses and parked tractors on empty fields. It’s been […]

April 3, 2020

“Happy April Fools kids! This year has been the biggest joke of all.” I received this text at 12:05 a.m. on Wednesday. The sender had […]

April 3, 2020

This was supposed to be a great couple of months for me. I was going to spend the semester studying in Valparaiso, Chile, a coastal […]

April 3, 2020

The best day of the year at Yale is the first day the temperature reaches above 60 degrees during the spring semester. Sunlight shakes the […]

April 3, 2020

Everything’s different now. The rhythm of normal life has been broken by the reality of quarantine and Zoom and social distancing — words that didn’t […]

April 2, 2020

Every time someone’s cough resonated through the plane cabin, the passengers around me shuddered, scrunched their shoulders and placed their hands in their lap. They […]

March 27, 2020

Saturday in late January, 9 a.m., I’m standing on a freshly cleaned and pebbled ice sheet. Water droplets have been sprinkled across its surface, allowing […]

March 26, 2020

10 years from now, I don’t see myself with kids. Actually, I’ve never envisioned myself with kids; I never pretended to be a mother to […]

March 6, 2020

The neighborhood is silent, for now. The parking lot across the street from the theater is empty, except for a few cars from which the […]

March 6, 2020