RSS

Daily Snap

Scenes on campus

TOPIC

Student Life

  • A spike in activity

    This is one of seven spikeball games we saw in progress on our walk around campus yesterday. Apparently it’s the perfect pastime when spring... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 25 2021 08:03am

  • Good timing

    Yesterday was one of five designated “break days”—scattered throughout the spring semester in lieu of a conventional spring... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 10 2021 08:09am

  • Time for a short break

    In a normal year, most of Yale would be on spring break this week. But to accommodate a compressed pandemic schedule—and to discourage... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 9 2021 08:02am

  • Throwback Thursday: getting back to normal

    Seventy-five years ago, from our March 1946 issue, a scene of postwar life: returning veteran students “relaxing” (in suit and tie) with... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 18 2021 08:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: Glee

    Our February 1961 cover, designed by Norman Ives ’52MFA, commemorated the centennial of the Yale Glee Club. Any Glee Club alums out there? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 11 2021 08:01am

  • 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

  • Throwback Thursday: haberdasher’s lament

    Fifty years ago, in our February 1971 issue, we reported on the hard times facing the traditional campus purveyors of men’s wear in an age of blue... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 21 2021 01:33pm | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Where do we start?

    As the Yale Daily News reported this weekend, the university has decided to house first-year students in their residential colleges next fall... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 12 2021 07:55am

  • United by a divider

    Can you still enjoy a meal with friends in a dining hall this semester? Yes, but with some precautions, as demonstrated in Silliman College recently... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 13 2020 07:50am

  • Throwback Thursday: the kids were all right

    Fifty years ago, author and outgoing Pierson College master John Hersey ’36 published a book called Letter to the Alumni, a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 1 2020 08:08am

  • Get the message?

    The campus bulletin boards are now doubling as billboards to spread the word on preventing COVID-19. Other nearby boards read “WEAR FACE... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 16 2020 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: sex talk

    Fifty years ago this week, in 1970, students arriving on campus for the fall semester were greeted with a 64-page pamphlet called Sex and the Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 17 2020 07:55am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Mess tent

    Students living on Old Campus didn't have access to the residential college dining halls during a two-week quarantine period, so Yale Dining brought... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 11 2020 08:00am

  • Sign of the times

    All Yale undergraduates—and graduate and professional students who live in campus housing—are being tested twice a week for COVID-19.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 4 2020 07:57am

  • Go outside and play

    These are not easy times for singers and players of wind instruments. But these three trombone students from the School of Music (left to right: Ben... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 3 2020 07:58am

  • Welcome! Go to your room.

    Today is the second day of a week-long move-in process for Yale College students. Each student has a prearranged dropoff time, after which... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 25 2020 08:00am

  • Coming soon

    This coming academic year will be far from normal, but despite online classes, social distancing, and a likely reduction in extracurricular... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 7 2020 08:45am

  • Love letter

    As the long moveout of 2020 continues, the staff of Berkeley College has left a message for its students. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 30 2020 07:56am

  • One last look

    Many students are returning to their rooms on campus for the first time since the Covid-19 outbreak in order to pack up and move out. Kelly Cailette... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 10 2020 11:28am