Yale Daily News

The First-Year Issue is an annual “spissue” — special issue — the Yale Daily News produces to welcome incoming first-years to Yale and inform them of important news from the past year. In most years, copies of the print paper are sent to each incoming first-year student. But due to the pandemic, this will be the second consecutive year that the issue is released entirely online.

Unlike typical issues of the News, which are written and edited by members of the junior class, the articles in this spissue are written by first-year reporters and edited primarily by sophomore reporters.    

There are four main sections to the issue: News, Sports, Opinion and Weekend. News is further divided into four sections: University, City, Sci-Tech and Arts. Within these areas, reporters covered everything from controlling COVID-19 to a preregistration system in flux to Yale’s efforts to increase diversity and inclusion. The sports section includes updates on how Yale’s teams fared throughout the pandemic. Opinion features pieces on letting go of perfectionist tendencies, maintaining first-generation, low-income — or FGLI — status at Yale and lessons learned during a gap year. The Weekend section contains a guide to the best pizza in New Haven, an explanation of the ever-present acronyms Yalies use, letters from incoming first years to their future selves and more.

The News is so excited to welcome you to Yale! We hope to see many of you around campus and in our building, at 202 York St., next year.