Yale ranked 17th on list of “Colleges Where Students Are Hot and Smart”
Yale was ranked 17th in hotness by Business Insider. It was really hotness + smartness, but I don’t care about smartness. I care about hotness. We’re told we’re collectively smart all the time. I...
View ArticleCREDIT/D/FAIL: Week of March 8, 2013
CREDIT: Charlie Sheen as Lindsay Lohan’s mentor This is really the best thing I’ve ever heard. It’s even better than when I was assigned to play the windchimes in my elementary school’s orchestra or...
View ArticleStop asking if women can have it all; it’s a stupid question
Can women have it all? No. Can men have it all? No. The only living things that can have it all are lap dogs, particularly Teacup Malteses. I’m not saying that women don’t often end up with the short...
View ArticleWhat not to post in Yale 2017 Facebook group
I get it future class of 2017: the urge to post on the Yale 2017 Facebook page can be overwhelming, like photo-shopping yourself into photos of One Direction and pretending you’re in the band. In my...
View ArticleWe’re not Nancy Drew
Most of us have either participated in it or been bystanders to it: when will he come out, why hasn’t he come out, he must be gay. But what about the people on the other side of the conversation? What...
View ArticleWhat to watch when you’re sick
I’ve been sick for the last few days. I’m a terrible sick person; ask my mother. I either refuse to acknowledge I’m sick, or I spend much too much time acknowledging that I’m sick, as in I literally...
View ArticleHow to avoid being mistaken as a pre-frosh
Getting mistaken as a pre-frosh is downright embarrassing. I should know, since it happens to me all the time. And by all the time I mean it has happened to me exactly four times, which is four times...
View ArticleThe Bulldog Day effect
Yesterday, I was meeting my pre-frosh. Well, technically, she wasn’t my pre-frosh, but I really liked her, so I’m going to appropriate her as mine. She asked where I wanted to meet. Not wanting her to...
View ArticleTOP FIVE: Week of April 19, 2013
Ways to avoid shaving your legs even though it’s spring 5 Wear skin-colored tights at all times—and I mean even when you’re in the pool. 4 Wear long skirts (not the see-through kind, but the kind nuns...
View ArticleWhy we wear Yale clothes when we’re not at Yale
I never wear Yale paraphernalia when I’m at school, but when I’m home I occasionally do. The first instance is when I’m jogging. You see, I’m a truly terrible jogger, which was a rather shocking...
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