Salovey!

Peter Salovey, the current provost and my primary source for my YDN beat, is the new president of Yale!

Election Day!

Chris and I woke up to a campus covered in flyers and signs and set to work on my YDN story for the day: monitoring the campus pulse during election day.

Luckily, I had a few less experienced reporters as helpers. Between us, we covered about 6 election viewing parties, and talked to over 30 students.

I also participated in the democratic process myself, casting my vote for my first presidential election. The line was almost an hour long, but people waiting outside the New Haven Public Library were in high spirits.

Chris and I attended the Yale College Democrats viewing party for a while, before stopping by the YDN and then heading over to the Ezra Stiles dining hall to see how students were faring there. When CNN called the election for Obama, I raced over to Old Campus and witnessed the scene that would become the opening few paragraphs of my article. We were in the YDN building until 2:30 A.M.

Birthday present from Chris!

White gold and topaz necklace :)

YDN Banquet

The Whiffenpoofs sang, and David Remnick, EIC of the New Yorker, gave the keynote.

^ These are my fellow beat reporters at the News desk, plus my editors Daniel and Maddie. All the beat reporters in News are girls, so they call us the News Sorority, or psi delta nu, because ΨΔΝ  looks like YDN!

Happy Halloween!

Dressed as a pirate, I waited in line with a thousand other Yalies for over an hour to see the midnight Halloween Show-- a student-made movie projected in Woolsey Hall while the Yale Symphony orchestra plays the soundtrack live. This year's movie was a hilarious adventure story about the "lost 13th residential college" of Yale and one girl's quest to stop the Ivy Coalition from kidnapping President Levin-- who had a cameo role, among many other Yale administrators. It was very well done, and there were oodles of inside jokes that had students rolling around with laughter in their seats. (To be fair, most were already pretty tipsy.) It was a very feel-good night and people had extremely clever Halloween costumes! Hopefully I'll have a picture soon of my pirate outfit :)