Volume Xix Issue 5

Top 5 hardest things about being Colombian at Yale

5. “I loved Narcos.”

4. The abbreviation ‘Dport’

3. “You’re from Colombia? I heard it’s dangerous there.”

2. “You’re from Columbia? I heard it’s dangerous there.”

1. The commute

A Symbol with Substance

262 days passed before the Waterbury State’s Attorney released the surveillance videos and witness statements that…

Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts

Every year, the Criterion runs the five Oscar-nominated live-action short films under a single…

Celeste

Celeste, a recent 2D platformer released on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PS4, is a perfect lightweight indie game. Stripped down to its…

Home Away from Home?

“Should I?” I thought to myself as I texted a friend over fall break. It had only been a few weeks, but I already felt a…

Annals of the archive

At this institution, you can accumulate a couple different kinds of accolades. You could get the Lifetime Achievement Award, join the list of former U.S. Presidents, or your student diary could end up at the Yale University archives. Yale has amassed a great collection of student papers to…

Black Panther

Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, like all films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a fantasy. What’s the purpose of a fantasy…

The Problems of Partnership

Our most treasured artistic products are often linked to the “genius” artist. But, more often than not, a…

Firsts

I saw my grandmother for the last time on Rosh Hashana five years ago. She greeted me at her door with a slight hunchback and a frizzy heap of white hair, pinching my cheek with her forefingers and praising how I’d grown a foot in just a blink of an eye. She took my hand and led me past distant relatives to the…