Yale Daily News

Four years ago, I entered Yale as part of the class of 2021, and now the year I both dreaded and anticipated is here. It’s […]

March 14, 2021

Yale Daily News Magazine · Clean Feet When I think of my childhood in Ethiopia and Kenya, I mostly remember red dirt — the kind […]

January 31, 2021

Who was the first classmate you saw in real life this year? Whose flesh was the first to send a jolt through your spine and […]

November 25, 2020

A good Korean drama begins and ends with the characters. Despite both of my parents being immigrants from Seoul, the only time Korean is heard […]

November 25, 2020

I’ll never forget the way the bread frenzy stirred the world back in March. As the coronavirus swept across America and lockdowns became the new […]

October 9, 2020

2019 was the year that I lost myself in an avalanche of intimacy. I didn’t know a heart was capable of expanding so much, of […]

May 13, 2020

On the night of Oct. 12, a group of Rocklin, California police officers pulled up on a dozen high schoolers playing football in a parking […]

November 22, 2019

  “Between my house and my pulpit,” Prophet Mohammed tells us in one of his more notable utterances in hadith — the Islamic prophetic traditions […]

May 19, 2019

The nicest house on the street where I live happens to be a funeral parlor that offers traditional and Asian funerals. It’s a huge building, […]

March 5, 2019

I have an adversarial relationship with clothes. My reactions to “What Not to Wear” and “American Ninja Warrior” are the same — “I could never […]

February 25, 2019

I grew up next door to four boys, all more or less my age. We shared a fence. In the afternoons I’d climb up on […]

February 25, 2019