Nicole Lim
Nicole Lim
Recent Stories
No boyfriend and the Valentine's Day blues
As you read this on Friday, thousands of doting couples will have already ceremoniously defiled my birthday with mushy love letters and hoards of chocolate. And I will be hung over after a night of sangria. I prefer my calories in liquid form, thank...
Don't judge me because I'm a Kappa girl
It's Nicole -- It's Nicole -- It's Nicole that makes the world go 'round -- Those are the words I hope to hear this Friday when my sorority goes to Mory's for a toasting session. Since I don't play a sport, can't hold a note, and am politically...
Returning from a Hawaiian Christmas break
Four hours into the red-eye flight from Hawaii, I stared incredulously at the grandiose claim on the seat phone: "Up to 5 more inches of legroom! Welcome to Economy Plus." I must have been getting the short end of the 0 to 5 more inches. But like any...
Think Yale is boring? Grad life is even worse
I put in my best performance ever on the Greyhound Bus back from Boston. To discourage the oncoming passengers from sitting next to me, I spread out my papers, laptop and winter coat over the whole seat. My previous attempts were to pretend to be...
A radical ride through the 'Disposable Decade'
As I was battling the wind (and invariably losing) on the way to Commons, I caught a glimpse of brightly colored posters for the Safety Dance. Last year, as an overenthusiastic freshman, I indiscriminately went to every school-sponsored social event...
Declining a ride on the Red Hot Pony Express
After my weekly dosage of Dawson's Creek, I took Mr. Leery's advice to "Seize this opportunity. Seize this. It'll be gone in a moment" and headed to Toad's Place. With the subject heading "For Yale Women Only -- Red Hot Pony Express at Toad's this...
To my parents: I love you (it only took 18 years!)
After the excitement of the Tercentennial, Parents' Weekend seems a lackluster second act, even though every marginally artistic group is performing. But for the lucky Yalies whose parents are journeying back to New Haven -- obviously not for its...
Yale campus unifies after tragedy disturbs normalcy
American flags sway in the breeze, patriotic anthems ring through the night and forwards of prayers flood e-mail boxes. Usually, this show of unabashed nationalism would be met with snickers, but cynicism has been saved for another time: for political...
How was my summer? Oh, where do I begin...
As a mighty sophomore I thought I had outgrown the routine three questions (name, college, hometown), but they had merely been replaced by one equally stimulating question: "How was your summer?" That question is also a cover-up for someone's forgotten...
Aloha and aloha to my freshman year at Yale
While 800 prefrosh, conspicuously clad in blue Yale sweatshirts paraded around campus, I was stuck in my room. As the next generation just finished getting a taste of the Old Campus they will inherit, I can't believe I'm already at the end of my first...