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4 years

wtf is an econ major. and if there r so many y is the economy so bad? plz do better

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about to pursue a PhD in american studies at yale!! but before I do, let this tweet be a testament to my upbringing in the nail salon alongside my vietnamese refugee family, their labor, and their love

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academia's so crazy bc you'll encounter shit like "as a first-gen humanities phd student paying half my rent of color" that you have to then somehow engage with seriously

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this joke really booked a first class plane ticket and sipped some wine while flying over some of ur heads

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happy graduation to firstgen and/or lowincome students ONLY. we did that with care for our communities and most importantly with FLAVOR. the rich could never

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accurately renamed schwarzman center at yale

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writing this after dispatching police on your own students....

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confession: when i was a freshman i auditioned for the yale glee club because i thought it was gonna be like the TV series so for my audition i sang "sweater weather" in the most indie girl voice to a world-renowned choir conductor fml

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and I can't underscore how this was only possible through the many mentors who had an unsolicited investment in me, including @driftinghouse , @brainyandbrawny , mary lui, sunny xiang, maryam aziz, amaris brown, and jermaine scott

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a lotta us in our early 20s need to interrogate our infatuation with capitalism and the belief that wealth marks the successful realization of our college degrees..who did u want to become while entering uni? who did you end up becoming? and how did the uni cause this dissonance?

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academia always reminds me of my inability to perform extroversion and toughness, so as i return to grad school i'll be holding onto sunny xiang's reminder: "introversion and tenderness can be powerful places from which to think, write, build, and connect" (Tonal Intelligence)

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the "incident" is @yale calling in new haven police and arresting its students for peacefully protesting

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hello yale undergrads (mainly juniors+seniors)! the inimitable sunny xiang and i are co-teaching a seminar for fall 2024 on non-argumentative academic writing. it's called "I Don't Like to Argue: The Styles and Politics of Humility"; enroll! some of our guiding thoughts... (1/2)

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5 months

on the lack of oceans in ocean vuong's "on earth"; dm for access link!

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this university is so disturbing. dozens upon dozens of losers with weapons protecting other losers eating dinner in an ugly building. terrible & yet trivial

Yale Daily News

@yaledailynews

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BREAKING: New Haven police spotted in riot gear inside the Schwarzman Center. Updates to follow.

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next year i plan to outdo all of my peers by graduating trenta cum latte with a 5.0 as part of the apple phi beta kappa gamma koopa troopa society; in fact the distinction i will receive in my major will be so extraordinary that peter salovey will give me his position

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4 years

sit-in on I-95: follow the New Haven Black Lives Matter chapter on facebook

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@minhhuynhvu

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~900 signatures so far from @yale alumni + their families calling for yale's divestment from weapons manufacturing companies contributing to Israel’s assault on Palestine!! fill out the form () in solidarity with hunger strikers and occupiers at beinecke

Tell Yale: No Donations Until Divestment!

Dear President Salovey and Trustees of the Yale Corporation, According to the United Nations, Israel’s assault on Gaza has killed 33,797+ Palestinians, destroyed 70,000+ housing units, displaced 1.7...

docs.google.com

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600 signatories so far when it should be thousands—ALL ALUMNI, sign and spread the letter!

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yale is physically and socially architected the way it is to make you feel helpless & indebted. to get a mere extension u must walk into a colonial gothic building, plop on a soft couch with a tissue box in front of u, and perform trauma to a random college administrator

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you can't get mad bc youre telling on yourselves...

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the Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition reposting absolute garbage in response to this week's university occupations. unsurprising that blight has signed neither faculty letter in solidarity with doxxed + arrested students

David W. Blight

@davidwblight1

20 days

George Packer may be unpopular for this essay but it is right on the mark in my view. For years some ever-enlarging precincts of university curriculums have indeed created a crisis of our own making on campuses. Read and reflect?

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thumbs down to the "student occupiers are just reading and being nonviolent" reasurrances from various faculty. and what if they did more than just reading? would you still share your reassurance, unequivocally? what do you say to the cal poly humboldt students?

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@minhhuynhvu

4 years

yale cancelled my student jobs please cancel my thesis too

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so now there's a curfew for non-yale people to step onto a campus that's right in the middle of downtown new haven? did you ID these "outsiders"? the racism is completely unveiled

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@minhhuynhvu

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yale alumni, current seniors, and your parents: sign below in solidarity with hunger strikers and student organizers occupying beinecke plaza, demanding @yale divest from all weapons manufacturing companies contributing to Israel’s assault on Palestine

Tell Yale: No Donations Until Divestment!

Dear President Salovey and Trustees of the Yale Corporation, According to the United Nations, Israel’s assault on Gaza has killed 33,797+ Palestinians, destroyed 70,000+ housing units, displaced 1.7...

docs.google.com

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3 years

a sobering reminder of our disposability under the university & the necessity for us to continue nurturing our informal communities of care b/c our health and life will never come from an institution. rest in peace, rachael

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2 years

screaming crying throwing up

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@minhhuynhvu

5 years

yale really just tried to charge its students $125 in the summer for "the yale college student activities fee"; fgli folks, be sure to login to your sis to waive this audacity

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@minhhuynhvu

5 years

are we surprised a yalie working for kamala called the FBI on a man of color w/ undocumented family members for writing FB comments interrogating her politics? what kind of twisted rationale do yall who've been playing respectability gonna conjure up now?

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4 years

with the spring semester officially cancelled, can profs now do the same w grades? pls be advocates for ur students, esp those in precarious circumstances

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3 years

missing the shared struggle of being in a packed library at 12am during finals..,, now im just alone with empty word docs and a sink full of dishes😭

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4 years

big kudos to @NoFailYale for their relentless advocacy work, and huge admiration for all of my peers who shared testimonies on how COVID-19 has impacted them and their families; none of this labor should have had to happen in the first place during this crisis

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4 years

my worst nightmare has come true

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3 years

me every night at 1AM this semester while my groceries rot in the fridge

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a moving undergraduate's account of their encampment: "And so the institutions have lost their meaning. The campers recognize that the only thing holding our sham social contract together is their willingness to abide by it: watching genocide unfold, they have stopped abiding."

The Cornell Daily Sun

@cornellsun

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OPINION | Max Fattal '25 describes his own emotions around the encampment, and the broader political context in which it exists

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2 years

congratulations to @driftinghouse for receiving the 2022 yale graduate mentor award in the humanities!! 🎉🥳 thank you, as always, for your generosity and care as an advisor

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in two days, 1100+ signatures from @yale alumni to echo the demands of student protesters occupying beinecke plaza last night, the deans threatened (to no avail ofc) disciplinary action if students did not leave by 11:30pm sign at to support. get to 2k!

Tell Yale: No Donations Until Divestment!

Dear President Salovey and Trustees of the Yale Corporation, According to the United Nations, Israel’s assault on Gaza has killed 33,797+ Palestinians, destroyed 70,000+ housing units, displaced 1.7...

docs.google.com

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@minhhuynhvu

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~900 signatures so far from @yale alumni + their families calling for yale's divestment from weapons manufacturing companies contributing to Israel’s assault on Palestine!! fill out the form () in solidarity with hunger strikers and occupiers at beinecke

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6 months

written and signed by the only real ones of this unserious university

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4 years

it's always "I hope this email finds you well during these unprecedented times" but never "i hope u have a cocktail hidden in a mug during ur panoptic zoom meetings"

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5 years

this is definitely a delusional and unfounded opinion coz i have 8 espressos in me ... but honestly this school does not deserve my allnighters! i do not owe it extra labor after all it's extracted and sucked from me! ... so im going the fuck to sleep!

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4 years

sometimes my capacity is attending one zoom class then laying down until the sun rises the next day—anyone else??

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@minhhuynhvu

4 years

today someone asked me what im getting a phd in and i said american studies to which he replied "oh so you've watched hamilton, right?" i nodded yes in a mixture of confusion and politeness

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4 years

YES! we've raised over $35k+ in donations. with corporate matches that is over ~$105,000. keep venmoing if you can, there are always surcharges and funds to redistribute. crazy that this has only been in 2 days

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@minhto_bean 10 more minutes!! $100k has been reached 💕😊🎀💒😈🐣🍰🦇

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5 years

someone in seminar: “id like to unpack...” me:

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yalies laptops are the funniest things: in one corner ull see a sticker virtuesignaling their leftism, but unironically next to it is a vineyard vines whale and above it the patagonia logo

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"What can academic writing do besides argue? Why does critical thinking so often compel an idiom of claiming, exploring, discovering, and mastering? What might writers strive for, if not newness, rigor, excellence, or even one’s own voice?" (2/2)

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4 years

ready to attend graduation thru a server on club penguin

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attended an orientation for graduate school yesterday and they sent us a pop quiz today im packing my bags right now

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grad school

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4 years

scholars are so obsessed with overusing prepositions. how can we think through/against/around this academic grammar?

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4 years

i have trust issues b/c of people who post their reading responses on Canvas a day early

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3 years

v twisted that fgli undergrads taking some overpriced snacks from a $42.3 billion endowment university needs to be surveilled and reported on... by fellow undergrads

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5 years

ydn really had to create this juxtaposition

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4 years

my hardest final this semester was trying to explain to my immigrant family how im a gender studies major

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genocide enabler (shafik) has awarded a genocide enabler (nyt) for its work in genocide enabling ("international reporting")

The Pulitzer Prizes

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@hannahdreier @nytimes @stillsarita @NewYorker @sarahanneconway @city_bureau @invinst @Reuters @washingtonpost Congratulations to @nytimes . #Pulitzer

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Prem Thakker

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Notable—unlike other schools, Wesleyan Uni says it will not clear an encampment so long as it remains non-violent: "This morning you can find pro-Palestinian protestors camped out…as long as we all reject violence, we have opportunities to listen and to learn from one another."

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v grateful for the professors who have been kind and generous to their students this semester, those professors who don't need demonstrable "proof" of struggle to be accommodating and flexible

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4 years

when i learned that how people perceive you in realtime is the unmirrored version of yourself on zoom, i gave up

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does genocide get put on pause between now and october (almost half a year)?

olivia ebertz

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Breaking: Brown University reaches a deal with encampers. The encampers have agreed to clear encampment by 5p. In exchange the Brown Corp Board will vote on a divestment measure in October, among other concessions. Details TK

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so many dynamics to consider as we enter the digital semester! zoom lays bare lived experiences of body dysmorphic disorder, class insecurity, learning disabilities, and much more.... please be patient w each other: virtual backgrounds are ok, no camera is ok, breaks are ok

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@minhhuynhvu

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received course evals back today for ENGL 256: Writing About Family (with @briallenhopper ) & feeling very elated and grateful for the students and the community they built with each other ❤️ my fav excerpt: "AN ABSOLUTE BANGER OF A TF!!... IN LOVE!! NO WEAKNESSES, ONLY ICON"

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@minhhuynhvu

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some of yall paid six digits to get into a fking college then r currently paying five digits/year to attend said college? rich people are so stupid please redistribute ur wealth

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5 years

JE first year wins oscar? well Minh vu got out of bed this morning so how do u like them apples

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forever hind's hall: power to the occupiers & glory to gaza!!

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@minhhuynhvu

1 year

normalize asking for what u need without having to divulge personal details and perform indebtedness

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@minhhuynhvu

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girl it's a 1-year master's degree you're whining about as people are getting brutalized

Brian Stelter

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CNN's @juliavargasj says she's slated to graduate from Columbia University on May 15 – "I have family coming from Brazil to come watch me walk across the stage" – but "is there a climate for celebration?"

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i cant stop thinking abt one of my clients at the writing center who asked if he could juul while i read his paper.... we love a nicotine king who’s polite

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2 years

"publish or perish"! "keep a citation manager!" "write every day!" first of all i can barely send an email without an anxiety attack

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@minhhuynhvu

4 years

one of my self-sabotaging coping mechanisms when life gets too hectic is clicking 'Select All' and 'Delete' on my email. no inbox no problem

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@minhhuynhvu

5 years

one of my most hilarious student jobs was being a laundry student worker, where i had to organize peers’ clothes which they paid to get done. had me speechless daily: instead of popping tidepods into the washing machine, these ppl really ate them and paid for laundry services..

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3 years

president salovey has no redemption arc💀

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5 years

yale you flopped, once again like wtf are u doing?? solidarity and gratitude to all ER&M profs & students

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@minhhuynhvu

4 years

university twitter rn is STRUGGLING i hope you're all foregoing some of ur readings to rest 💕

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@minhhuynhvu

9 months

an essay on u.s. empire and the cardboard box, starting with operation babylift and the war in vietnam—thanks in advance for reading!! (also dm me for the free access link if needed)

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@minhhuynhvu

3 years

the grammar of "the ocean is on fire" obscures centuries of environmental violence, as if the fire was an accidental one-time event—a spontaneous combustion of chemicals that can be controlled again by industrial science... it's more so that the ocean has been set afire

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y'all need to protect your last two brain cells by logging off the debate please

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@minhhuynhvu

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1500 signatures so far! as of monday, apr. 22, @yale has arrested close to 50 of its students for peacefully protesting and occupying beinecke plaza alumni and family members, sign at to continue supporting and echo our students calls for divestment

Tell Yale: No Donations Until Divestment!

Dear President Salovey and Trustees of the Yale Corporation, According to the United Nations, Israel’s assault on Gaza has killed 33,797+ Palestinians, destroyed 70,000+ housing units, displaced 1.7...

docs.google.com

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@minhhuynhvu

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in two days, 1100+ signatures from @yale alumni to echo the demands of student protesters occupying beinecke plaza last night, the deans threatened (to no avail ofc) disciplinary action if students did not leave by 11:30pm sign at to support. get to 2k!

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received a really grave e-mail from my head of college explaining how my dorm is completely flooded and uninhabitable because of a broken heater pipe and i immediately started chuckling instead of getting mad because it really be like that always

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@minhhuynhvu

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some people do phds to be academics but i just wanted to get paid to not make sense for five to six years (with some limited healthcare ofc)

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@minhhuynhvu

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always cringing at the pervasiveness of (humble) bragging in academia that's coded as institutional critiques of the university & as words of wisdom

Ashley Ruba, PhD

@ashleyruba_phd

5 months

As a PhD student, I rarely worked more than 40 hours a week. I published seven first author papers and won two dissertation awards. You'll never do your best work while burnt out. Take a break this month.

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60 degrees in december, everyone getting covid, and i still have to write final papers?? get me out

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"As many of you know, I was born in the Middle East. I grew up in a Muslim family with many Jewish and Christian friends" ok literally noone asked

Columbia University

@Columbia

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A message from President Shafik.

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the ways in which i will never stop saying the ways in which

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@minhhuynhvu

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and we are continuing to gather more signatures: over 1700 now! sign here at in solidarity with the dozens of arrested students, calling for @yale 's divestment

Tell Yale: No Donations Until Divestment!

Dear President Salovey and Trustees of the Yale Corporation, According to the United Nations, Israel’s assault on Gaza has killed 33,797+ Palestinians, destroyed 70,000+ housing units, displaced 1.7...

docs.google.com

Yale Daily News

@yaledailynews

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As of 8:46 a.m., over 1,500 University alumni, parents and graduating seniors had signed a pledge to withhold donations until Yale divests. The group sent the News a press release outlining their support for students demanding divestment in the wake of dozens of student arrests.

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3 years

honestly wish i was a "i did a thing" type of millennial cuz they seem rly happy

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@minhhuynhvu

4 months

you basically pretend to befriend 14 other people and listen to their bios (which can somehow take up to 4 hours). if you're in a landed society there's dinner in an ugly tomb that gets no sunlight. there are a lot of loser white ppl who come back for reunions. it's not that deep

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

4 months

Yale's secret societies are the ultimate test of "whether the modern social-justice politics advanced by college students can coexist with the staggering selectivity and privilege that benefit those same students," Rose Horowitch writes:

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our remaining pandemic+tiktok-rotted brain cells rubbing against each other to form anti-police occupations across u.s. universities, unrelenting in the fight for palestinian liberation... the girls are back

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literally wtf do rich yalies do with their free time?? their FGLI counterparts are studying for the same degrees and occupying the same extracurricular spaces WHILE working the max 19 hours/week to support themselves and their families

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the way to save higher ed is to conduct personality hires for phd programs

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@minhhuynhvu

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2000+ @yale alumni, graduating seniors, and famlies pledging to withhold all donations—in solidarity with student occupiers—until the administration commits to divest from all weapons manufacturing companies facilitating genocide in palestine sign at:

Tell Yale: No Donations Until Divestment!

Dear President Salovey and Trustees of the Yale Corporation, According to the United Nations, Israel’s assault on Gaza has killed 33,797+ Palestinians, destroyed 70,000+ housing units, displaced 1.7...

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@minhhuynhvu

4 years

ur turn, come on u can do it!! 🥰 @Yale

Princeton University

@Princeton

4 years

Undergraduate education at #PrincetonU will be fully remote for fall 2020. In a message to the campus community, President Eisgruber writes that the pandemic’s impact prevents a genuinely meaningful on-campus experience for undergrads.

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well she's (my mother) not wrong...

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5 years

all these college acceptance tweets by fgli peeps? fucking incredible. congratulations! and dont let the stupid rich white people get to u. they prolly paid to get in

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the word "palestine" does not appear once 💀

Read Let This Radicalize You

@JoshuaPHilll

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BREAKING: The White House just released a statement on the protests at Columbia. And it’s terrible.

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got an unsolicited email from my professor asking if things r okay in my personal life since she hasn’t received my essay that was due five weeks ago... that’s when you know ur on whole nother level of atrocious

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every time i tell a family member over the phone that i'm doing work they always snicker and ask "what work? 🤣" phds are fake confirmed

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