What’s it like to be a townie? After they’ve cut the umbilical cord connecting them to Momma Yale, most students don’t stick around to find out what life is really like in New Haven. Every year, however, a few daring graduates decide to stay and—whether they realize it or not—become real citizens of New Haven.
Zach …
While my idea of a student job is 12.50/hr for stapler duty, a good number of Yale students have found jobs on campus that offer a fulfilling experience in addition to a paycheck. These positions range from Beinecke librarian to daycare teacher. While they vary in hours per week, wages, and prerequisite experience, the coolest …
It is notoriously hard to fail a class at Yale, and the same appears to be true for on-campus jobs. From research positions to residential college buttery posts, being let go seems more myth than reality. None of the students I talked to could remember hearing of other students being fired. While employers admit that …
Fresh out of Yale College, Chika Ota, TC ’11, landed a job at the Yale Office of the University Printer. “The atmosphere here is pretty lax,” she admits. She has to be on her game all the time, though—the job is official Yale business. “You have to make sure you know what you’re doing and …
“Hi.” “Hey.” “Sup.” “To. Yo*. Lol sorry I suck at typing.”
And this, my friends, is how nearly 95 percent of all Grindr conversations begin. My experience with this unique and morally questionable iPhone app began nearly three weeks ago, after my friend told me that it was taking the gay community by storm.
“Alright then,” I …
Over the last four weeks, a new blog has been making the rounds on the Facebooks and Twitters of Yale students: By Yale Women for Yale Men (BYMFYM (bime-fime)). Its daily posts offer exhaustive advice on sex, relationships, friendship, and everything in between—see the four paragraphs from “The Yale Man’s Guide to Texting” on the …
Nestled behind the Yale Daily News building is the small and unassuming graduate student bar Gryphon’s Pub, otherwise known as GPSCY. It’s famous for hosting weekly karaoke, beer tasting, the occasional round of speed dating, and famously cheap drinks. According to one chemistry graduate student interviewed, GPSCY is one of the main factors that differentiates …
When it comes to the Valentine’s Day plans of Yale College masters and deans, the days of speed dating, blind dating, and speedy blind dating are long gone. Celebration of this romantic holiday takes on a different form for these adults, many with families. Branford College’s master Elizabeth Bradley, GRD ’96, takes a practical …
Kate Bengtson, MC ’13, née Reynolds, never imagined that she’d get married—and certainly not in college. When, as a ninth-grader, she met the boy who would later become her husband, she had a different future in mind: “I was planning on being a lawyer with no friends and 40 cats.”
But by a series of unexpected …
For Yalies like myself, who consider New Haven to be a more physically, figuratively, and artistically polluted version of Providence, perhaps you’ll find solace in the New Haven Artspace.
As a nonprofit community-based project, Artspace appeals to local artists in search of an outlet to publicize their work, explains Lizzy Star, BK ’10, who is currently …
It’s 11:30 p.m. on a Tuesday, and I’m in the Blue State on York Street for the second time in two days, looking to talk to Tizzie Mills, a man who at once seems ever-present and elusive.
“I don’t know that much about Tizzie…although once he walked like two miles to come to a bonfire at …
Eva Mendes, the critically acclaimed co-star of Will Smith in the poorly-rated romantic comedy Hitch, famously proclaimed “I love my country, but I believe we are too quick to censor nudity.” Was Mendes on to something?
I don’t know, and quite frankly, it doesn’t matter. But for a closer look at the state of nude modeling …
About a month into my first semester at Yale, I walked into my common room for a midnight snack only to find myself blockaded from the fridge by 40 or so cardboard boxes. Two of my suitemates sat among them, hacking away with scissors and box cutters. “Um?” I asked. The long answer was that …
While the stretch of Chapel Street outside the School of Art is noisy and bustling on a Tuesday afternoon, the building itself feels calm and meditative. The front wall is a sea of windows, and the white halls are suspiciously quiet until the second floor, where undergraduate and graduate studios house a hodgepodge of artistic …
Twitter: A word, a brand, a lifestyle. Since its inception in 2006 and cultural breakthrough in 2008, the 140-character snippet has become America’s favorite way to say nothing over and over again. Inevitably, Yale took to saying nothing like a fish to water. Most of Yale’s Twitterverse is made up of innocuous or inadvertently amusing …
When’s the last time a problem set inspired you to launch an entire entrepreneurial endeavor? That’s precisely what happened last semester to Will Moritz, TC ’12, while auditing HackYale’s inaugural lecture series on web development. The entirely student-run program began last fall with an introductory course on how to code web pages. “I wasn’t really …
I, like any other good Yale student, ignored every email I received about EliApps. What, exactly, is an EliApp? More importantly, why exactly did we have to change our entire email system? My system was perfect, infallible! (Step 1: Forward Pantheon to Apple Mail; Step 2: Never use Pantheon account again.) And now, Chuck “Look-me-up-in-the-YDN” …
Jared Shenson, SM ’12, and Charlie Croom, SM ’12, seem more like the guys down the street who don backwards caps than programming geniuses who have revolutionized Yale’s shopping period. They sit before me in jeans and sneakers, intermittingly shooting wry smiles at each other. These men’s names have become ubiquitous with their online app, …
Logging into your Eli account and entering “Bulldog Chat” on the Yale admitted student website for the first time is like running into a game of double dutch. Conversations swing like ropes around you—the curious fellow prefrosh intimidating you almost to the point of complete inaction—and players jump in and out faster than you can …
Close your eyes and imagine yourself in Yale Health, that monolithic monstrosity over the river, through the woods, and past Swing Space. Picture the Inpatient Care waiting area. Now imagine it’s 3 a.m. on a Saturday. If you’re anything like most Yale students, this task might seem a little abstract; the image is hard to …