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Move over Sam Tsui: Allison Williams and Conan on Gawker

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Youtube lovers spam Jay Leno with show ideas, Gawker reports.

Bullblog tip-off: chick lit authors’ master’s teas

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Chicks as in children, lit as in chapter books.

Taking the initiative to respond

By gabrielle - Last updated: Friday, February 26, 2010

I got some splainin’ to do.

Bullblog tip-off: Duke’s Men Jam

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, February 25, 2010

Will Oprah be there????

Who’ll have the initiative to participate in the Sex@Yale Initiative?

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, February 25, 2010

What really goes on behind closed dorm room doors…

YSFP meets study abroad

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Hop to it, aspiring kangatarians!

HuffPost College Launches

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, February 22, 2010

Everything you never wanted to know about colleges, all in one place!

In Defense: Senior Class Gift Video

By gabrielle - Last updated: Saturday, February 20, 2010

Examining Yale’s love for Youtube.

Yale Ruins Everything, v.2: Soda Edition

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010

First chocolate milk, now soda. When will it stop???

What to watch: Olympics 2/13

By gabrielle - Last updated: Saturday, February 13, 2010

The Bullblog’s Brrrrrrrrief Guide to the Winter Olympics.

Bullblog tip-off: careers in grilled cheese!

By gabrielle - Last updated: Friday, February 12, 2010

Kind of seems like a punchline re: liberal arts majors and jobs after graduation, kind of seems like a viable career option.

Yale-ntine’s Day: Dinner for Two in New Haven

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, February 10, 2010

If a romantic table at Family Night isn’t your thing.

Yale bubble becomes snow globe

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, February 9, 2010

as Snowmaggedon/Snowpocalypse hits New Haven.

NYTimes in Shock: College Guys Are Jerks

By gabrielle - Last updated: Sunday, February 7, 2010

… and college girls all act like cartoon-strip Cathy.

Super Bowl XLIV, or a Comparison of Buffalo Wings in New Haven

By gabrielle - Last updated: Sunday, February 7, 2010

Main Garden takes on Buffalo Wild Wings and S’wings.

College “Jeo-PARTY!!!”, or How One High School Classmate Became President of the YPU and the Other Became An Editor at the Bullblog

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, February 3, 2010

L. Libresco vs. G. Karol, College Edition.

Connecticut Real Ale Festival at Prime 16 and Bar

By gabrielle - Last updated: Saturday, January 30, 2010

Don’t they know that Sundays are Family Nights in the dining hall? Stiff competition.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Sam Tsui and Allison Williams

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, January 28, 2010
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Sam Tsui and Allison Williams

Before they became rock stars…

Yale Sorority Rush Guide, the Sequel

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, January 25, 2010
Yale Sorority Rush Guide, the Sequel

“Don’t Judge Me Because I’m a Kappa Girl.” – YDN, 2002.

“I’m also weird about accessories”: Your Bullblog Guide to Yale Sorority Rush

By gabrielle - Last updated: Sunday, January 24, 2010

Love, Loyalty, Sisterhood, Friendship, and Intellectual Growth (but more importantly, MIXERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

True Life: I’m a New Haven Townie

By gabrielle - Last updated: Saturday, January 23, 2010

Crashin’ yo college parties, sneakin’ into yo gyms, not returnin’ yo books.

UPDATE: Wallet Found From DKE’s of Hazzard

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, January 21, 2010
UPDATE: Wallet Found From DKE’s of Hazzard

Wallet teaches lesson about drinking at DKE.

Screenwriter of “Love Story” and Former Yale Professor Erich Segal Dies

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Love might mean never having to say you’re sorry, but that’s no excuse for the New York Times to end an obituary with this qualifier: “None has appeared on The Times’s best-seller list.”

YLS Grad/Olympic Hopeful Fights Cancer

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Rihanna and Justin Chambers sign on to help.

On TV Now: US Men’s Nationals in Figure Skating

By gabrielle - Last updated: Sunday, January 17, 2010

Men in tight pants on television is an obvious choice for Yalies.

Shopping List: Claire Seaver

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Shopping List: Claire Seaver

Snooping on others’ shopping.

5 classes to take if you need a QR

By gabrielle - Last updated: Saturday, January 9, 2010

If you didn’t quite score a 5 on BC Calculus (or if you did, but only because you were way more intense in high school than you are now), have no fear.

5 classes to take if you’re a second-semester senior

By gabrielle - Last updated: Friday, January 8, 2010

Or what to take if you don’t want to work, don’t want to learn, and only want to party.

I Saw You Harvard… confirming rumors about social inadequacies

By gabrielle - Last updated: Friday, December 18, 2009

GoodCrushYale with less sex, duh.

Bullblog Study Break: the Best of Rhythmic Gymnastics Videos

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Finals week at Yale < rhythmic gymnastics training schools in Russia.

Bullblog study break: A Different Drum Fall Dance Show

By gabrielle - Last updated: Saturday, December 12, 2009

You have ADD (or stolen Adderall)…their nickname is ADD. It’s the perfect combination of entertainment and procrastination!

Hanukkah 2009: A Guide

By gabrielle - Last updated: Friday, December 11, 2009
Hanukkah 2009: A Guide

Eight Crazy Nights of Finals.

Smithy is to Wenzel as West Hartford is to Downtown New Haven

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Alpha Delta Pizza is home to a more intense face-off than West Hartford v. Downtown New Haven.

Forget Rhesus Monkeys, the End is Actually Approaching

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, December 8, 2009

I haven’t seen 2012 yet, but I think the gist is that the world ends in a watery hell.

Reading Week Parties: Monday-Tuesday

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, December 7, 2009

Because nothing makes a semester’s worth of reading go faster than doing it drunk.

Bullblog Tip-off: You better look out…

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, December 3, 2009

Diseased rhesus monkeys on the loose!

Bullblog Tip-Off: Pop!

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, November 30, 2009

Musical about the famous Andy Warhol, probably more than 15 minutes long.

Harvard-Yale Game 2009: Tailgate Drinking Game

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, November 19, 2009

the other Game.

Harvard-Yale Game 2009: Hosting Harvarders

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Chillin’ with the Cantabs.

Bullblog Tip-Off: Meteor Shower Hotspot

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Meteors in the Morning.

Bullblog Tip-Off: Carousel

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, November 16, 2009

True love means never walking alone.

Bullblog Tip-Off: PROHIBITION

By gabrielle - Last updated: Saturday, November 14, 2009

PROHIBITION = Safety Dance – 80s outfits + gangster/flapper costumes.

Major English Problems: Notable Quotables

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, November 12, 2009

How to alienate people and lose friends, English major-style.

Bullblog Tip-Off: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Reserve tickets fast!

Yale Ruins Everything: Chocolate Milk Edition

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, November 9, 2009

No more fun.

New Haven Restaurant Week is Upon Us!

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, November 9, 2009

$29 dinners, $16.38 lunches.

What Hannah does when she’s not riding buses

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, November 5, 2009

Even guest bloggers are not safe from this onslaught of internet mischief!

Whole Foods: Grand Opening in Milford, CT

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, November 5, 2009

Whole Foods throws down against Trader Joe’s on Boston Post Rd.

Craigslist: Missed Connections at High St. Starbucks

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Coffee almost-dates.

David Brooks/NYTimes on Love and Texting

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Sex, lies, and texting.

Yalies in the News: Brian Mahanna

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, November 3, 2009

New York profiles Brian Mahanna, LAW ‘09 and adviser in Bloomberg’s reelection campaign.

Sex: Doing it Better than Harvard

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Rankings based entirely on attractiveness (or on information about sexual health… whatever.)

Bullblog Tip-Off: WNHU 88.7FM Radio

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, November 2, 2009

College radio done right.

Craigslist: Missed Connections at Yale

By gabrielle - Last updated: Sunday, November 1, 2009

Another missed connection! What a hallowed weekend for romance!

Craigslist: Missed Connections at Toad’s

By gabrielle - Last updated: Sunday, November 1, 2009

Missed connections wants to make love in this club.

NYTimes: Yale vs. Dongguk

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, October 29, 2009

Yale spokesman defends Levin’s honor, light, and truth.

Daily Beast: Ivy League Admissions Essays

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Daily Beast and I both do free, online college counseling!

Halloween 2009: Costumes

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, October 26, 2009

Ghoulish, ghostly, garish guide to finding Halloween costumes for all four nights of Halloween. COLLEGE.

Safety Dance 2009: A Freshman Affair

By gabrielle - Last updated: Saturday, October 24, 2009

What will happen to the Safety Dance when no one at Yale was actually born in the 80s? I would like to suggest that the Safety Dance be replaced by the Macarena, and it can be a 90s dance party. That would be 2 Legit 2 Quit.

Off-Campus Living: Wheat Thins Edition

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, October 22, 2009

Discuss: Wheat Thins are the building blocks to a nutritious off-campus existence.

Safety Dance 2009: Pregame Playlist

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, October 22, 2009

Beyond Michael Jackson.

Yalie Wins Lester Patrick Award

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Yale alum wins the award for outstanding service to hockey.

Bullblog Tip-Off: Vertical Horizon at Toad’s

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

80s is to 90s as Safety Dance is to Vertical Horizon at Toad’s.

YDN Proclaimed Relevant by New York Magazine

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, October 19, 2009

Will the YDN one day cease to exist? Will future readers only have the Bullblog to turn to for breaking news? Will this apocalypse take place on December 21, 2012??

Pro-Bono College Counseling (through College Confidential)

By gabrielle - Last updated: Saturday, October 17, 2009

In which I search out worthy applicants on College Confidential to discuss their fears, qualifications, and SAT SCORES in the hopes of guiding them to the Ivy League! (Being a real, live Yale student totally qualifies me to give advice, obviously.)

Bulldog cougars?

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, October 15, 2009

Are upperclasswomen on the prowl?

Music Suggestion – Girls’ “Laura”

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, October 15, 2009

Well played, commenter “greg.”

“Let Me Down Easy” – Yale Medical School Drama

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, October 14, 2009

One woman play based on interviews conducted at the Yale School of Medicine.

Cause of H1N1 at Yale Revealed

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Beer pong = death.

Bullblog Tip-Off: That We Are

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Jay Frisby’s Senior Project in Theater Studies.

Music Suggestion: Girls – “Lust for Life”

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, October 12, 2009

Soundtrack (and by soundtrack I mean one song on repeat) suggestion for Columbus Day.

YDN in six words or less 10-12-09

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, October 12, 2009

Toad’s Terrace and YDN need you!

Bullblog Tip-Off: Eve 6 at Keys to the City

By gabrielle - Last updated: Sunday, October 11, 2009

Eve 6 (only known for that song “Here’s To the Night” that was undoubtedly played at your high school graduation party) will be at Keys to the City this Wednesday, October 14.

Yale Fails: Indie Music

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, October 8, 2009

Will you be the next Ivy League indie sensation so I can tag photos of us together on Facebook?

Daily Beast: A List Without Yale (or Harvard)

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Some schools apparently get lobster and chocolate fountains. We get sliced zucchini.

Daily Beast: Harvard vs. Yale, Round 2

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Round 1: Most Dangerous College. Round 2: Smartest City.

Toad’s Place: Concerts 10/8-10/9

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, October 5, 2009

This week, Toad’s is hosting a two-part local music series called “Raptoberfest” and “Rocktoberfest”. Since I know absolutely nothing about the local New Haven music scene, all I can do is judge these bands by their names.

A Tale of Two Cities: DKE’s of Hazzard

By gabrielle - Last updated: Sunday, October 4, 2009

I went where no Bullblog editor has gone before — DKE.

YDN in six words or less: 10-2-09

By gabrielle - Last updated: Friday, October 2, 2009

bad food, bad words, good bye

Bullblog Tip-Off: The Last Five Years

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, October 1, 2009

A musical alternative to the Winter’s Tale.

Midnight at Yale: Day 3

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Isn’t writing about construction at Yale sort of the journalistic equivalent of talking about the weather?

Secret Societies, Gossip Girl Style

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, September 28, 2009

The secret society that Blair gets invited to in tonight’s episode of Gossip Girl seemed pretty lame at first—who taps freshman? who has to buy artwork for society?

The Movement for Beauty and Justice at Yale

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, September 28, 2009

Because IvyGate did a surprisingly good job of covering the Movement’s most salient points, I’ll just respond from the ground here at “base camp.”

This Weekend at Criterion Cinemas

By gabrielle - Last updated: Thursday, September 24, 2009

I know that no one ever goes to Criterion because it’s sort of a sketchy walk at night and they don’t even show the movies you’d want to see generally

Payne Whitney Gym is now eco-friendly

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, September 22, 2009

I haven’t been working out because I lost the cord to charge my iPod (and there’s obviously no way I could just replace the cord), but I woke up this morning bright and early and eager to try to sweat out this cold (unfortunately not H1N1!) that’s been plaguing me. And lo and behold, when [...]

Mad for A Cappella

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, September 21, 2009

Mad Men Season 3 Episode 3 boasts (in addition to blackface and more pregnant drinking) an epic a cappella battle between two members of the Princeton class of 1955 while high at work.

Fall has Fallen

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, September 21, 2009

It’s the first official day of fall, which means it’s more or less the unofficial end of Camp Yale. Which means that Yale will not be fun again until right around Spring Fling.

High Holiday Jew: the College Edition

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, September 21, 2009

Now that the ten days of repentance are upon us, I advise you to take this time to re-evaluate your life at Yale as one of the chosen people.

The only rankings list Princeton isn’t on

By gabrielle - Last updated: Monday, September 21, 2009

The Daily Beast analyzed the crime rates of over 4,000 universities in America, and — surprise, surprise — Harvard and Yale came out on top.

Major English Problems

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2009

My extensive research has shown that there are two types of English majors at Yale. I took Vikings! to fulfill the pre-1800 requirement (I think the exclamation was actually in the course title, or at the very least was on the first slide of every powerpoint presentation. We also learned a lot about polar bears). [...]

Comeback Kid

By gabrielle - Last updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2009

When googling “Mischa” “Barton” “Yale”, you learn from what I hope (for her sake) is not her official site that she has dreams of attending the Yale School of Drama! I mention this only because she has relatively nothing to do with our fine university, and, if that little nugget is in any way based [...]

God, I hate freshmen

By gabrielle - Last updated: Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Emma: One day, February will be upon you. You won’t remember how the sun shined during those first days of September, or how your body used to feel before you started drinking grain.

Preparing for H1N1

By gabrielle - Last updated: Saturday, September 12, 2009

All you need is a fever, or flu- like symptoms, and you’re gold. You don’t even have to walk all the way to DUH to prove it—they don’t even want you to come, just in case you infect everyone else.