It's 12:50pm on a Tuesday and I have approximately 10 minutes to get lunch and walk from SSS to WLH. Most Yale students in my position would prowl the Bow Wow or the Elm in search of a quick, filling, alternative to the lengthy process of the dining hall. I, however, find myself at the counter in Grace Hopper college where my brown paper bag “Smart Meal” is already waiting for me. I greet the Yale dining hall worker, they hand me my bag, and I’m on my way – the pleasant inter

Last year I lived right across from Arethusa. Where most first years looked out their window and saw the beautiful courtyard of Old Campus, I looked directly out upon Chapel Street, where the small but iconic ice cream shop resides. As my neighbor during those trying but wonderful times that define one’s first year of college, Arethusa has seen me at my best and my worst. Actually, scratch that. It has never seen me at my best, those moments were reserved for celebratory scoo