Jordi Gassó
Jordi Gassó
Jordi Gassó is the student organizations beat reporter.
Recent Stories
I’mma Buy U a Backlash
While you and your biffles lost yourselves, your phones and your self-worth within the mud pit that is Old Campus during Spring Fling, others probably plugged their ears to block out the unwanted noise.
No turning back
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No looking back, I say. A gap year cannot afford any doubts, for it requires some degree of planning and control. While prudence doesn’t preclude the certainty of mistakes (or even misdeeds), there is little time for contrition.
Me against the music
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Some of my friends/housemates/musical cognoscenti (who for the purposes of this column, I will collectively refer to as Latrice Royale) accuse me of liking and listening to the same six songs over and over again.
YOUR SPRING BREAK IS OVER (and so is your childhood)
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The prognosis came true: I can now count the number of high school friends I care about with 10 fingers or less.
Life after Yale: The Roads Less Traveled
Yalies who opt to go abroad after graduation do so after accepting and understanding the risks inherent in their personal choices. What remains a little tricky is pinpointing the common denominator anchoring their experiences.
My totally scrupular and feminist cartilage
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Let us begin with a few propositions: Mr. Gassó, Teenage Boy Wonder and adequate tennis player, once lacked the time to worry about women’s rights. He had few scruples. My 18-year-old self had no sense of tact.
Top 5 Reasons NOT to watch the Super Bowl
I fail to derive any meaning, purpose or viewing pleasure from American football, and I realize this admission might seem too international. But the more I think about football, the less sense it makes.
A Dominican Abroad
As someone who grew up in the Dominican Republic listening to The Four Seasons, hearing about my father’s alleged adventures at the Woodstock Festival and rooting for Ross and Rachel, I consider myself incorrigibly Americanized. Despite my proclivity for Americana, I am no rebel intending to stab the back of my motherland.
Top 5 Reasons why Lana Del Rey is (still) amazing and divine and shut up, I’m talking!
Have you heard of Lizzy Grant? No, you have not. How about her alter ego, Lana Del Rey? I know the name sounds akin to a fast food taco emporium but Lana is actually a veritable cultural sensation. Kind of like tacos, I guess.
Tête-à-tête on the taboo issue of gap years
Oh, um, you know, actually, I’ve been in the DR since August. I’m taking a gap year.