Who is a respected journalist, has two thumbs, is a former host of the View and the Today Show, has an age equal to the atomic number of Bismuth, a pant suit for every day of the millennium, and a unique perspective on motivating senior college students? It’s this year’s Class Day speaker, Barbara Walters!
Walters …
While Myrtle and Senior Week promise to be liquor-fueled and thus enjoyable, there is no rule in place preventing seniors from experiencing similar levels of fun throughout their final semester. In fact, the only hard and fast thing preventing Myrtle-esque behavior throughout anyone’s senior spring is a second semester course schedule.
Constructing the perfect senior spring …
Tupac gave us Thug Life, and now the ladies of the class of 2012 (following the lead of their predecessors in the class of 2011) present to you the SWUG life.
S.W.U.G, an acronym for “senior washed-up girl,” was added to urbandictionary.com in October of 2010 and caught fire with young women in senior classes across …
“Um, you have to turn it in. I don’t think there’s a choice.” Adam, my FroCo and source of eternal wisdom, gave me a bewildered look when I innocently asked if he had considered ignoring his senior thesis deadline.
Despite the many reasons he gave me for why finishing your thesis was an important part of …
Normie (n.)
1. A Yale College undergraduate who does not play a varsity sport and whose college career is therefore considered “normal.”
The following report charts a day in the life of John Studaman (normie) and his roommate Jesse Richard (varsity men’s basketball).
9:30 a.m. John: “Ahh where did I put my shower shoes?”
9:35 a.m. John showers and …
There is little debate as to which residential college reigns supreme in the world of intramural sports. Jonathan Edwards has won the Tyng Cup—the highest prize in intramurals—for the past two years and is on track to win again this year, as the only team currently with more than 1,000 Tyng points.
Pundits put forward several …
New Haven is a great city in many ways. It does, however, lack a professional sports team (with the notable exception of the Yale Men’s Hockey team). What’s a diehard fan to do? Obviously, there’s only one answer: sports bars. Looking for a thrill (and the chance to procrastinate by watching a game or three), …
“What’s your name? What’s your college? Do you play a sport?” My freshman fall was dominated by these three questions. As a gymnast who had just walked onto Yale’s varsity team, I found myself uniquely poised to give an acceptable answer to the third question.
If I were in a crowd of athletes, my answer was …
It turns out that the game they play in Alice in Wonderland—where flamingos are used as mallets to club hedgehogs through wickets—actually is not cricket. That’s croquet. This stuff is all very foreign to me.
But not as foreign to the group of Yale students on the club cricket team, for most of whom New Haven …
On a dreary Wednesday morning, I ventured into the realm of the absurd. I am talking, of course, about a Yale admissions tour.
It started at the admissions office on Hillhouse Ave. around 10:30 a.m. Our tour guide, who was naturally a member of both a capella and Dwight Hall, began his tour attempting to convince …
Yale stores its surprisingly sparse supply of brochures for prospective students on a bookshelf in the admissions office. Half of the bookshelf is devoted to two slim pamphlets, one entitled “Shared Communities,” and the other simply “Yale.” The rest of the bookshelf contains an eclectic selection of works that I can only assume were written …
They are shiny and pleasing to the eye. They are experts at talking while walking backwards, and most of them didn’t need braces because their smiles were perfect from day one. They have limitless supplies of energy, and, above all, they love Yale.
In the search for the most exclusive extracurricular activities at Yale, the official …
Imagine: You sit down in front of a large, flickering computer with your fellow fourth grade class. Together, you type and click away, and a sacred hush descends over the class. Then suddenly, someone shouts, “I just died of dysentery!” Such is life on the Oregon Trail CD-ROM.
In some ways, Yale Admissions’ Virtual Tour is …
I slept through the Yale admissions information session when I first visited, and I almost slept through this one too. The nine o’clock start time was four minutes passed when I approached Hillhouse Ave. to find a pack of 200 high schoolers, college counselors, and parents walking, two by two, down the street to find …
Maeve Ricaurte, SM ’13, had to wear a uniform in high school, so she didn’t get much of a chance to wear many of the outfits she dreamed up. When she got to Yale, she said that she was “thrown for a loop” by the many different styles embodied by students on campus. So she …
Like every college, Yale has a wide variety of university-themed apparel and tchotchkes. Most colleges probably don’t have their own (surprisingly tacky) Vineyard Vines line, but such is the Ivy League. Despite the fact that Yale hands out T-shirts for specific events like they’re going out of style, most of us feel the need to …
Gant, Jack Wills and J.Press may be three separate stores on York Street, but at first glance, they seem a bit like an amorphous blob of preppy clothing. Despite the fact that students rarely enter, they continue to exist—and one has to be better than the others. So, armed only with my wits and an …
Cut deeply into the Yale psyche, like etchings on the sepulchral tables adorning the walls, “the place where Louis dwells”—Mory’s Temple Bar—has borne stalwart witness to this strange century past. On the night of his death, Oct. 13, 1918, Louis Lender may not have realized how comprehensively the legacy of the establishment of which he …
Steppin’ Out, Yale’s step-dance team, is not in the business of treading lightly. The team’s practices are not conducive to studying. Their style is emphatic and passionate, and not just because their music is loud. But this is normal in the world of step.
Even with only seven out of 12 active members in attendance, S.O.’s …
I’ve been to a frat party or two (hundred) in my time here at Yale, making me something of a novelty here at the Herald (doubly so when you consider how thin the rims are on my glasses frames and how rarely I wear them). If you spend your weekends with the lovely editorial staff …