Articles by Isabella Huffington

Why we wear Yale clothes when we’re not at Yale

I never wear Yale paraphernalia when I’m at school, but when I’m home I occasionally do. The first instance is when I’m jogging. You see, I’m a truly terrible jogger, which was a rather...

TOP FIVE: Week of April 19, 2013

By Isabella

Ways to avoid shaving your legs even though it’s spring 5 Wear skin-colored tights at all times—and I mean even when you’re in the pool. 4 Wear long skirts (not the see-through kind, but...

The Bulldog Day effect

By Isabella

Yesterday, I was meeting my pre-frosh. Well, technically, she wasn’t my pre-frosh, but I really liked her, so I’m going to appropriate her as mine. She asked where I wanted to meet. Not wanting...

How to avoid being mistaken as a pre-frosh

By Isabella

Getting mistaken as a pre-frosh is downright embarrassing. I should know, since it happens to me all the time. And by all the time I mean it has happened to me exactly four times,...

Question me: secret society edition

By Isabella

According to Business Insider, here’s the list of the top ten questions secret societies ask perspective taps: If you could choose any small animal and make it big, what would it be? If you...

Why Brad Paisley’s song “Accidentally Racist” is just racist

By Isabella

There’s no such thing as being accidentally racist: an accidental racist is just a real racist who isn’t self-aware enough to know he’s racist. An accidental racist is just a real racist who apologizes...

What to watch when you’re sick

By Isabella

I’ve been sick for the last few days. I’m a terrible sick person; ask my mother. I either refuse to acknowledge I’m sick, or I spend much too much time acknowledging that I’m sick,...

We’re not Nancy Drew

By Isabella

Most of us have either participated in it or been bystanders to it: when will he come out, why hasn’t he come out, he must be gay. But what about the people on the...

What not to post in Yale 2017 Facebook group

By Isabella

I get it future class of 2017: the urge to post on the Yale 2017 Facebook page can be overwhelming, like photo-shopping yourself into photos of One Direction and pretending you’re in the band....

Stop asking if women can have it all; it’s a stupid question

By Isabella

Can women have it all? No. Can men have it all? No. The only living things that can have it all are lap dogs, particularly Teacup Malteses. I’m not saying that women don’t often...

CREDIT/D/FAIL: Week of March 8, 2013

By Isabella

CREDIT: Charlie Sheen as Lindsay Lohan’s mentor This is really the best thing I’ve ever heard. It’s even better than when I was assigned to play the windchimes in my elementary school’s orchestra or...

Yale ranked 17th on list of “Colleges Where Students Are Hot and Smart”

By Isabella

Yale was ranked 17th in hotness by Business Insider. It was really hotness + smartness, but I don’t care about smartness. I care about hotness. We’re told we’re collectively smart all the time. I...

V is for vulnerability

By Isabella

In fourth grade my teacher Scott—it was that kind of school—asked us to raise our hand if we ever felt left out. Every person in the class besides me raised their hand. It’s not...

Stop fat shaming Kim Kardashian; she’s fucking pregnant

By Isabella

The obsession the media has with pregnant women’s bodies is really, fucking disgusting. In fact it makes me feel sick. We live in a society where fat shaming is acceptable. It’s not only acceptable...

Senator Rob Portman reverses his stance on gay marriage

By Isabella

Senator Rob Portman of Ohio came out today in support of gay marriage. He’s the first Republican Senator to do so. He credits his change of opinion with the fact that his son, a...

Daylight savings, or as I like to call it, the absolute worst

By Isabella

Tonight is daylight savings. Normally I like daylight savings about as much as I liked going to Greek Church as a kid, which was not at all. It’s rather hard to get enthused about...

Things to do when you go home over break if you have no high school friends left

By Isabella

I have basically no friends left from high school, and by no friends I mean I have exactly three. One is my roommate Rachel, but I’m counting her, since I met her two days...

Self-help, help the self

By Isabella

I’m taking a class called Networks where we took a survey, which asked, among other things, our favorite book genre. My favorite book genre is self-help, but of course I couldn’t admit that mainly...

CREDIT/D/FAIL: Week of March 1, 2013

By Isabella

CREDIT: Quvenzhané Wallis’ dog purse at the Oscars I find the Oscars rather dull. Maybe its because I have always seen only one of the movies nominated. Regardless, I always claim that it’s the...

Youth without youth

By Isabella

I make a truly terrible twenty-one-year-old woman. But I would make a really excellent middle-aged one. I don’t want to YOLO. I don’t want to go wild. I don’t want to live like I’m...

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