Zara Kessler
Zara Kessler
Recent Stories
KESSLER: My date with Monty
Bucket List
With just over a week before my senior writing project was due, I walked up to the desk at the Lillian Goldman Law Library and giggled as I announced, “Um, I’m here to check out the dog.”
KESSLER: Last man standing
Bucket List
I decided to subject myself to intramural dodgeball, but then I realized I had no idea what dodgeball entailed. I hadn't even seen that Vince Vaughn movie.
KESSLER: Visiting Yale’s brain collection
Bucket List
It’s in large part thanks to Harvey Cushing that Yale possesses more brains than Harvard. After graduating from Yale in 1891, Cushing, the “father of modern neurosurgery,” headed to Harvard for medical school. He did a stint at John Hopkins University, where, in 1902, the pathology department claimed to have misplaced a pituitary cyst he was studying. Enraged, Cushing vowed that he would henceforth keep track of all his own brain specimens.
KESSLER: A vegetarian at Louis’ Lunch
Bucket List
I’m by far the least vegetarian of any vegetarian I know.
KESSLER: Put those clothes in the bucket
Around this time last year, I went to my first naked party. In many ways, the experience was exactly what I had expected.
Glorious, Consensual, Safe
Cover
I could count on one hand my memories of people at Yale talking to me about sex. By “talking” I don’t mean flirting and by “people” I don’t mean raucous acquaintances or advice- seeking friends. Those conversations have been far too numerous to calculate.
Editor's Note
When I returned to my Manhattan school on September 13, 2001, my sixth grade history teacher told us to write. Anything that came to mind would do. For those first few days after the terrorist attacks, we had the ability, the duty even, to record history.
Thursday Nights
Small Talk
It’s not uncommon to have to show ID when trying to enter a popular New York City club. But walk into one Manhattan club on a Thursday night in the summer and you will not only have to present identification, you may also have to answer a trivia question.
Kessler: A day to remember
Today is my father’s birthday. In 2001, my father’s birthday fell on the first day of school. I remember this because I was so concerned about what to wear to make my sixth-grade debut that I almost forgot to wish him a happy birthday.
New bridge to ease highway traffic
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) is in the middle of a massive transportation improvement program to modernize 7.2 miles of the I-95 highway.