Cristina Costantini
Cristina Costantini
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Costantini: The oldest dog
Let me start by giving credit where it’s due. This article was inspired by the 2009 Disney masterpiece “Old Dogs,” starring Robin Williams and John Travolta, in which our washed-up leading men have to babysit a ninja, or switch lives with a turtle, or dismantle a bomb while in full scuba gear, or birth a child or something. I can’t remember, but I’m sure it’s comedic gold.
Costantini: How to pretend New Haven is safe
Oh, seniors: Remember Chief Perotti’s charming notification emails in the fall of freshman year which somehow reinforced our theories of why it would never happen to us?
Costantini: Academic Paper Titles: The Bullshit Dialectic and the Homoerotic Other
Paper titles are the loveliest and the silliest part of academia. We write them at the peak of exhaustion and desperation, most often after the paper is finished.
Ensnared in snark
On Wednesday afternoon, something remarkable happened. A group of young people at Yale got upset about something! I don’t mean the moralizing-op-ed-page upset or the YPU-pretend upset. I also don’t mean the ironic-Jon Stewart upset. I mean the good old-fashioned Mom-and-Dad’s-college-stories kind of upset.
Costantini: Really Confident Person’s Conversation at Cristina
RCP: Oh HEY, Cristina! Come over here! Cross this icy puddle of death to say hi to me! We’re friends, remember?
SECTION BINGO: "I found the reading to be compelling."
Cristina: Last semester, I took four lecture courses and ended up having to take four sections. It was miserable attending all of those sections!
Game: Hedonism 4 poverty
I have compiled a list of both real and imagined Hedonism for Poverty events. Ridiculous? Maybe. Effective? Perhaps, but probably not. Real? See if you can tell.