Molly Worthen
Molly Worthen
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Senior Perspective: Molly Worthen
It was a quarter to midnight on a weekday in early April, and all I wanted to do was purchase one last bag of pizza Combos and one last bottle of fruit-flavored snob water with my parents' money. "Sorry. Graduating seniors can't bill to their bursar...
Chic haircuts, minty teeth: Ah, the comforts of home
I spent this winter break like I spend every other -- lying on the couch watching the MTV "Cribs" marathon, occasionally going over to a friend's house to watch a movie or take turns naming obscure people from high school. And, as on every break, there...
Done laundry lately? Didn't think so
Everyone got the freshman year Mom Laundry Lecture: "Don't mix whites with colors. Remember that red sweater Aunt Carol gave you will bleed all over absolutely everything. Oh, my baby is so grown up and independent!" Independent? Hardly. We are...
Braving office hours like a good student
Before my English professor launched into his lecture on the first day of class last September, he stepped back from the podium and said, "Look, guys. You're not as far apart from your professors as you think. When we're talking with you, we feel a lot...
They're our parents, and we're still their kids
There is something to be said for being a Parents' Weekend orphan. If you linger in the common room around suppertime and make a point to sit directly beneath the fluorescent floor lamp so as to look sickly and undernourished, suitemates' moms and dads...
Dubya: take some hints from a cappella
The time for diplomatic finesse is over. Now they must act in one swift movement. No matter the rhetoric of their opponents, they will move with the necessary resources and manpower to execute the policies discussed all year. The battle will be short...
The truth about seminars and your classmates
By this point in the semester, there are two kinds of students at Yale. There are those whose intellectual primacy has been affirmed. At mealtime, they are too excited recounting adroit remarks they made to approving and incredibly learned, famous...
What I learned at my summer job: reality bites
Life in the post-Yale working world is like a petri dish full of deadly microbes. It's interesting to look at for brief amounts of time assuming all your vaccinations are in order and you're wearing proper protective gear -- but I would never want to...
Reciting Pushkin at the annual Slavic Talent Slam
Yale foreign language departments know how to have fun. The Spanish students have Cinco de Mayo. I hear the German department screens movies every week and celebrates some kind of German "cheese day." Foreign language here is so wild, pre-frosh who...
Stop the madness! I just want a single, and a fireplace
Anyone who happened to stroll past the Jonathan Edwards College library last Tuesday night might have wondered at the anxious muffled chatter wafting out into the courtyard. Startled by the spirited boos and cheers, passers-by probably figured we were...