There’s a reason summer planning comes so early to Yale; with what I can only describe as brown slush lining the streets of New Haven, it’s as close as we can get to summer loving in January. If you’re not on some kind of life track, feel like all your friends have their summers set …

The results are in from the annual Norman Mailer High School and College Writing Awards for Creative Nonfiction, and of the 19 finalists and semi-finalists, a whopping 8 are Yalies. Making up the impressive showing are Anthony Lydgate, Cory Finley, Matthew George, Kate Lund, Kristen Ng, Ali Weiner, Tessa Williams, and Victor Zapana. Most have taken Anne …

Really, the allure of CTHall (as it’s universally called) is wrapped up in history. It’s wrapped up in the Legend of the Gremz.

Newsflash, Harry Osborn: first years never teach. They spend their time taking Wallace Stevens with David Bromwich and Medieval Drama with Jessica Brantley.

By this time in the semester, I’m always tired of the majority of my classes. But that doesn’t stop me from idealizing courses ahead!

OK, so Gabriel Snyder, Newsweek Digital’s new head honcho and former Gawker EIC, “doesn’t ‘identify as a Yalie’”.

Tomorrow, at 7 pm, the Students for Justice in Palestine are hosting the Sterling Professor for a talk on “America’s Self-Image and America’s Wars.”

Let’s see if Yale will come out to support Achebe as heartily as it supported TUIB at the last Bees n’ Cheer.

The talk will take place in LC 102 at 7 p.m., but if you want to be assured a seat, I’d advise you get there early.

Go ahead, indulge your Colin Firth fantasies—and read Prep for Yale College credit while you’re at it!

If you are easily offended, a member of the Greek system, or strongly pro-Yale administration, you may want to stay away.

MH Abrams revealed the poem he says contains “the most explosively concentrated erotic charge in all poetry:” Tennyson’s “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal.”

If you couldn’t quite squeeze in Lincoln at 200—there must be a few of you out there—this is your chance to get a taste of what you’re missing, straight from the horse’s mouth: Bromwich and Smith, among others, will be talking on Lincoln tomorrow at 1:30.

We hate these things this week.

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