Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:54pm
They had already traveled from across the country, spent a night in New Haven and braved the Activities Fair, but for some dramatically inclined prefrosh, Tuesday afternoon’s theater information session, coordinated by the Yale Drama Coalition (YDC), was the Bulldog Days highlight. While future classmates lounged on Old Campus with bags of candy...
Slouching on a futon in the middle of a Monday afternoon. Half-watching “The Royal Tenenbaums.” Pawing at a half-eaten bag of lime-flavored Tostitos on the table. On one side of the room, Dan Frank ’10 – wearing a torn ski team T-shirt and a jump cord as a belt – has his laptop out, finishing up some programming homework. Everything about the scene is decidedly...
A collection of three personal essays: “The Sad Man’s Manifesto,” “Direction” and "20 yr w/o skills seeks long-term employment.”
I speak on behalf of the race of pale men who travel alone or in herds with their heads to the ground or the sky. I speak for those who were incapable, as children, of harming their stuffed animals, who sat by their beds swallowing hard while their next-door neighbors threatened to dismantle their beavers and raccoons with scissors and Swiss army knives — and who...
Antony and Cleopatra were at odds, in the wrong way. A little bit of electricity would have added to their scenes, but the tension between them was becoming awkward, and their characters were getting stiffer and stiffer. Antony kept trying to persuade Cleopatra to hold hands with him in darkened rehearsal rooms in order to foster a spiritual connection onstage. Cleopatra...
First impressions are important. Because of this, I time my trips to the water cooler and the bowl of mints carefully. I once saw a girl unwrap a mint at the very moment her interviewer appeared in the doorway and called her name. She froze for a split second, mint in hand, unsure of whether to walk straight over to the interviewer and shake his hand or to go back and get...
Yale is more invested in its residential-college system now than ever before: Its development will be a defining part of University President Richard Levin’s legacy. But the recent improvements are not cheap. The renovations have cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and if the University proceeds with the building of two new colleges, their cost is projected to reach...
I recently found out that I have a job this summer. This is good news, because having a job means I’ll be making money, and making money means that I can finally buy a replica of the costume Mr. Mistoffelees uses in “Cats,” the longest-running musical in Broadway history. It also means that my family will be proud of me, given my previously demonstrated penchant...
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. — “One, two, three — Obama!” Hands fly skyward in a mock sports cheer, and a few bubbly volunteers — college students or recent, but experienced, young graduates — set to work, joining others already engaged in “getting out the vote.” It is March 18, and the remnants of St. Patrick’s Day are apparent in the green, clover-strewn...
Kate Bowden ’11 checked her PO box Tuesday. And Wednesday. And Wednesday again — just to be sure. The object of her self-described compulsive postal stalking? A coveted acceptance letter, one that would allow her to lead a small group of dirt-streaked, jittery freshmen across the forests of New England. Bowden was not alone in her anxious anticipation of the day that...
Meet Ben Miller ’11. At 6-foot-3 and 255 pounds, he is an offensive lineman for the Yale football team. But he’s more than that. He’s also a devout Christian who identifies himself as conservative. He started playing football in the third grade. “It’s the sport I know,” he says. A Minnesota native from a suburb of Minneapolis, Ben attributes a large part of...