Category: Student Speak

  • May 26, 2018
    In her TED Talk on the “single story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addresses our adherence to single stories — of places…
  • May 13, 2018
    We're told that college will fundamentally change us, but that's not how it always pans out. Back in high school,…
  • May 5, 2018
    The classes I’m taking this semester have me circling back to this one thought: How applicable is the stuff I’m…
  • April 28, 2018
    As a senior on the track and field and cross country teams, my time at Yale has revolved around seconds,…
  • April 7, 2018
    Despite every middle school’s valiant efforts, cramming hundreds of pubescent kids into a building is an uncomfortable experience for everyone…
  • March 24, 2018
    After a year that even the creators of South Park found impossible to parody, current events have lost their ability to…
  • March 17, 2018
    It was only Thanksgiving season, and I'd already been rejected by three academic conferences, three a cappella groups, two fellowships, two summer internships,…
  • March 10, 2018
    Let me start by saying segregation is far from dead. It might not be politically enforced, but institutions have ways…
  • February 24, 2018
    Teenage relationships commonly consist of casual hookups or long-term couplings. To say this generation is inadequate in forming emotionally intimate…
  • February 17, 2018
    As the spring semester begins, students are scrambling to secure summer internships and post-graduation positions. The pressure is especially high…