Jessamyn Blau
Jessamyn Blau
Recent Stories
The end of my era, but skip the Kleenex
A lot of columnists less egotistical than I have found it appropriate to leave their columns at the height of their game, or to at least sign off with no more obvious a self-reference than a simple "This will be so-and-so's last regular column" in the...
Financial aid woes point out system's flaws
At home in Paris three years ago, I went with my best friend to pay her tuition bill for law school. After stating her name to the woman seated at a folding table near the university library, she took out her checkbook and paid the sum in full: just...
A new set of rules for the admissions game
There is no way to start a column about the college admissions process in a new, scintillating way. I could tell you about Student X of Nebraska who is fretting about her early application process right this minute as you eat your sausage patty and...
Gay studies shouldn't just mean talking sex
In just a cursory look at the pages of the Blue Book, one thing jumps out at me: Yale's History Department is having a love affair with the history of identity groups. African Americans, Native Americans, Jews and women all have at least one course...
Search for answers starts in Yale bathroom
It's worse than senioritis or the hypochondriacal sophomore slump. It's not every senior's worse nightmare the real world. It's the ambitious early applicant's worst nightmare, and the fate of seniors all across campus these days: the crisis of Yale...
For Sept. 11, 2 vigils highlight divisions
What did the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks mean to you? As far as I can tell, this is a question that every American is theoretically supposed to be able to answer in a touching way (i.e., not, for instance, "Well, my mutual funds were pretty adversely...
Now hiring: Koffee Too, but not grad school
After almost four years, I didn't think President George Bush would ever do something I approved of. As it happens, however, someone -- and I certainly don't suggest that this was the work of Bush himself -- in said administration happens to have made...
Liberals must take new approach
Sign my petition. It's really important, it's a cause supported by at least several dozen -- uh, several people, and please, join me tomorrow when I scream at a building that houses the office of President Levin. I will bring lasting change to Yale...
The only society I'd join: Screen and Bed
As an ambitious freshman at Yale, I awaited April with glee, hoping that I, too, would one day get initiated into Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Dumb and Dumber, and Macaroni and Cheese. Then, after five minutes of fantasizing, my rationality...
University should address transgender issues
Let's say you walk into Yale University Health Services tomorrow to, say, complain of a tummy ache. The cheerful receptionist, before making you wait for approximately six hours, asks you to fill out a form on which you are asked to describe your...