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The Yale College Council has proposed several academic policies to reform the course registration and advising process, including extending add/drop period and implementing retroactive Credit/D/Fail.
The Yale College Council is spearheading a proposal for three new certificates at Yale College, though faculty expressed uncertainty about the plausibility of the proposal.
It is August, and I am arriving at a lecture hall far below the stairs of the Humanities Quadrangle. Plato and Gilgamesh shroud my mind, and the Hebrew Bible is somewhere in the back knocking on the front door; hours in attempt of pouring over their meaning weigh heavily over me. The lecture hall’s interior is a lowly-lit labyrinth of nervous, but enthusiastic students, full of an inviting presence that I did not previously associate with Directed Studies.
A few weeks ago, my therapist broke up with me, if that’s even something that can be legally done. Apparently, she no longer felt adequately prepared for my personal problems that were “near unsolvable” and recommended a few local fortune tellers and that girl in Silliman with tarot cards as a last resort. But before we called it quits, she taught me something that I shall now teach you: that it’s of the utmost importance to talk through your fears. In fact, simply speaking about one’s anxieties is proven to reduce their scariness dramatically. According to a 2017 Stanford study, whe...
A Black Yale student worries his acceptance was just due to Affirmative Action. With that as a possibility, he now overworks to prove his merit.