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Memories

Recollections of Yale, across the decades. Send your own memories to be considered for posting to yam@yale.edu, with subject line “For Memories.”

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  • Inside the poster culture (Dec. 1994)

    It was the beginning of September, but you’d think it was spring. Overnight, it seemed, the Yale campus had become a veritable greenhouse.... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | December 1 1994 12:30pm

  • Yale–the tour (Nov. 1994)

    I am reclining in a shady spot on the Old Campus one afternoon in July, enjoying the serenity that summer brings to the Yale campus, when from... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | November 2 1994 12:23pm

  • The café campus (Mar. 1996)

    The word “coffeehouse” brings to mind Parisian street corners, crowded rooms where visionaries brandished cigarettes in earnest defense... Read on
    Michelle Chihara ’96 | March 1 1996 11:59am

  • The spring term and the rest of my life (Feb. 1993)

    The good thing about becoming a senior, I thought when I got back to school last September, was realizing how foolish we all were three years ago.... Read on
    Beth Carney ’93 | February 1 1993 11:32am

  • Beyond the Blue Book (Dec. 1995)

    Take the minimum number of classes,” my adviser told me. “Many people are under the mistaken impression that this [holding up the Blue... Read on
    Dan Walfish ’98 | December 1 1995 11:22am

  • The call of the bluephone (Nov. 1997)

    Yalies, as a group, can tend toward the obsessive. For example, nothing is going to come between my roommate and law school—not even sleep.... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | November 1 1997 11:07am

  • My life as a pre-med (Summer 1994)

    Contrary to what you may believe, being a pre-med is not a glorious pastime. It doesn’t provide good conversation at cocktail parties, and I... Read on
    Gregory Raskin ’94, ’98MD | July 1 1994 11:58am

  • The recruiters are coming (Mar. 1995)

    For three years, they waxed rhapsodic about the virtues of a liberal arts education, shunned classes that carried so much as a whiff of... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | March 1 1995 07:47am

  • The undergrad as working stiff (Apr. 1998)

    In popular culture, a Yalie is often portrayed as an American relative of P. G. Wodehouse’s fictional Bertie Wooster, the affable, overprivileged... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | April 1 1998 07:33am

  • Home, sweet New Haven (May 1993)

    Before I left home for Yale, one of my friends was giving me a very hard time about having to go to school in New Haven. Now, after a year and a half... Read on
    Alissa MacMillan ’95 | May 1 1993 04:33pm

  • A co-ed goes coed (Summer 1993)

    Most students attending college for the first time find it very different from high school; usually because it is bigger, more competitive, and more... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | July 1 1993 04:25pm

  • Getting cut, and liking it (Apr. 1993)

    Three years later, the words still ring in my ears: “Sorry, we won’t be needing you, but have fun playing intramurals.” As I... Read on
    Ben Hoskins ’93 | April 1 1993 03:16pm

  • Faith under pressure (Nov. 1993)

    In an art history class I took during my freshman year, the professor displayed a slide of one of Michelangelo’s famous frescoes on the ceiling of... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | November 1 1993 02:59pm

  • The Duke & I (Oct. 2002)

    Edward Kennedy Ellington was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1967. A Yale biologist tells how the Duke became Doc. The Duke & I October 2002 by... Read on
    Arthur W. Galston | October 1 2002 10:14am

  • Midnight madness at the symphony (Oct. 2001)

    When it’s Halloween, Yalies haunt the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Midnight madness at the symphony October 2001 by Frances Brown ’02 Read on
    Frances Brown ’02 | October 1 2001 10:20am

  • Why do Yalies drink so much? (Feb. 2001)

    A teetotaling undergraduate asks why Yalies drink to get drunk. Why do Yalies drink so much? February 2001 by Kara Loewentheil ’03 Read on
    Kara Loewentheil ’03 | February 1 2001 09:03am

  • Blind date, 21st-century style (Dec. 2000)

    Every fall, each residential college, and the freshman class as a whole, hosts a dance commonly known as their “Screw.” Blind date... Read on
    Frances Brown ’02 | December 1 2000 08:59am

  • Name that note (or else!) (Oct. 2000)

    In search of the middle note: the terrors of the singing group audition. Name that note (or else!) October 2000 by Frances Brown ’02 Read on
    Frances Brown ’02 | October 1 2000 09:41am

  • Don’t freak out—it’s Art Night! (Summer 2000)

    When the stress runs high, “Art Night” calms jangled nerves. Don’t freak out—it’s Art Night! Summer 2000 by Siobhan... Read on
    Siobhan Oat-Judge ’02 | July 1 2000 09:32am