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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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  • If you want to learn it, teach it (Dec. 1997)

    Expectant eyes focused on me, deciding whether I was friend or prey. None of my notes or preparation had readied me for this test. My director had told me... Read on
    Loren Goldman ’00 | December 1 1997 01:24pm

  • If it’s Wednesday, it must be Woodward (Feb. 1995)

    Carefree as the “shortest, gladdest years” are supposed to be, they can become pretty routine. Mundane chores reduce the academic day to a... Read on
    Elana Zeide ’96 | February 1 1995 01:18pm

  • Learning to love the East (Feb. 96)

    On a clear, brisk day late this November, a Californian friend of mine walked outside wearing shorts. He’s a freshman. I put a gloved hand on... Read on
    Michelle Chihara ’96 | February 1 1996 01:11pm

  • Outta here! (Summer 1998)

    While Yalies might like to believe themselves to be calm, confident, and self-assured, the truth is that we do tend to get a little nervous from... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | July 1 1998 02:04pm

  • 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

  • From spooning to hooking up (Apr. 95)

    The amorous activities of Yale students have gone by many different names over the years, from “spooning” to “petting” to... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | April 1 1995 12:10pm

  • 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

  • Put on the pin stripes (May 1998)

    I had hardly been on campus long enough to unpack the laundry that I washed over Christmas break when my roommate, with the look of a true believer in... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | May 1 1998 12:40pm

  • 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

  • New Haven in the “off-season” (Oct. 1995)

    The three city blocks separating Pierson College from the house I shared this summer may seem a short distance geographically, but in every other way... Read on
    Noah Kotch ’97 | October 1 1995 08:07am

  • Love: the sixth course (Mar. 1993)

    In the spring of 1990, this young man became involved in his first Serious Relationship. He called his girlfriend from campus phones, and went with... Read on
    Alec Appelbaum ’93 | March 1 1993 03:41pm

  • 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