Can you tell me a little bit about your background? Where are you from? What is your major? What are your primary activities outside of class? I’m an E&EB major. I think STEM representation in the YCC is really a…
In the beginning of the 19th century, New Orleans was one of the United States’ wealthiest and largest cities. Its port shipped the produce of the American interior to worldwide markets, and wealthy merchants walked the streets in the latest…
When I was in kindergarten, September was a magical time. As the teachers let us out of class for recess, we would sprint toward the playground, jumping in the air, whooping, cupping our hands together, trying to catch the elusive…
It was the Monday night before classes were set to begin for Yale’s spring semester. Many of the students living in Bingham Hall, one of the first-year dorms on Yale’s Old Campus, had made an effort to sleep early in…
For 17 years, Joanna Lillis has worked in Kazakhstan as a journalist for publications like The Guardian and The Economist. She has become one of the foremost writers covering Central Asian affairs and is the author of a book on…
At the 2022 US Open, a crowd of spectators holds its breath. In the massive stadium in the Billie Jean King Tennis Center, the stands are packed. Thousands of eyes are fixed on the two figures competing below. Cameras catch…
Tammy, 71, sits on the curb with her hands clasped on top of her knees, her long tangled hair wrapping around her shoulder and down her chest. She’s been growing it out, she says. It’s a statement. Tammy lost her…
