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  • Mystery Monday: metal head

    It took us decades to notice a row of creatures like this one atop a pair of campus gates. Are they donkeys? Mythical yales? Let us know what you... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 1 2021 08:00am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Optimistic

    It’s been a week of sunny weather and significant thawing. And we’ve almost made it through February! Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 26 2021 08:28am

  • Running in place

    Students are in the last stage of quarantine until March 1, which means they still can’t leave the campus. So runners accustomed to jogs... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 25 2021 11:26am

  • When the play's not the thing

    Yale’s theaters are still dark, so the Yale Rep is using its poster cases to promote good pandemic practices with (slightly altered) quotes... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 24 2021 07:58am

  • 28 days

    February, looking pretty February on Old Campus. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 23 2021 08:19am

  • Clearing the way

    New Haven has seen almost three feet of snow so far this winter. But it doesn’t stay on Yale’s sidewalks for long, thanks to the hard... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 22 2021 08:08am

  • Mission accomplished

    The facilities people are just trying to protect the new lawn recently installed at Sachem’s Wood on Science Hill. But with another six inches... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 19 2021 07:53am

  • Still standing

    A lot of us feel like this Cross Campus snowperson looks as we try to keep it all together this February. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 17 2021 08:11am

  • A walk in the snow

    The northern colleges (Benjamin Franklin on the left, Pauli Murray on the right) looked handsome in the twilight the other night. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 16 2021 07:48am

  • Downhill from there

    Yesterday was a beautiful day to try out Yale’s best sledding hill, behind the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2021 08:32am

  • Nap time

    It’s been a good season for snow sculpture on campus this winter. We particularly liked this supine snowperson. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 10 2021 08:02am

  • Sandwich or swab?

    Dwight Hall has been pressed into service this year as both a COVID-19 testing site and a spot for distributing meals to Old Campus residents during... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 9 2021 08:50am

  • Mystery Monday: fence sitters

    The International Room in Sterling Memorial Library was once the Yale Memorabilia room, and its shelves are decorated with scenes of extracurricular... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 8 2021 08:05am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Back at its post

    Two and a half years after it was removed for the Schwarzman Center construction project, the cenotaph at the center of Yale’s World War I... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2021 08:20am

  • Gathering

    Snow people tend to be rather lax about social distancing. We’re told they have natural immunities. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 4 2021 08:12am

  • Great white north

    Scenes from the snow on the northern reaches of the campus, courtesy of our new graduate fellow Noah Yann Lee ’26PhD. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 3 2021 08:35am

  • Stormy night

    New Haven got 15 inches of snow before all was said and done last night. Except for the howling winds, it was pretty quiet on Chapel Street. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 2 2021 08:07am

  • A snowy start

    It’s the first day of the “spring” semester, and this is just the beginning of a projected 8 to 12 inches of snow. Not a bad day... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 1 2021 08:58am

  • New semester, same pandemic

    Yesterday and today are move-in days for Yale College students for the spring semester. To accommodate social distancing, most first-years will be... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 29 2021 08:00am