Letter From The President

June 5, 2018

story | Tan Tai Yong, President of Yale-NUS College photo | Yale-NUS Public Affairs   To the Class of 2018: As you celebrate the completion of...

Our Halcyon Days Are Truly Over, Now Let Us Cultivate Our Gardens

June 5, 2018

story | Daryl Yang, Guest Writer photo | Yale-NUS Public Affairs   Four years ago, almost two hundred bright-eyed students matriculated as the sec...

One Night in Singapore: The Illiberal Asian Body in Yale’s Missionary Position

May 24, 2018

story | Soh Wee Yang and Joshua Babcock, Guest Writers photo | StockSnap.io   It has been eight years since the Yale-initiated media storm began s...

My New Family

May 21, 2018

story | Bilge Arslan, Prospective Student   The times during which we struggle are the most important opportunities to discover our real friends, fa...

Taking a Gap Year [EYW 2018]

May 20, 2018

story | Charlie Colasurdo, Prospective Student photo | Tanya Olander, Guest Photographer   Coming off of just a few short days in Singapore for ...

A Liberal Education Should Interrogate Wealth and Power, Not Just Serve Them

May 2, 2018

story | Jim Sleeper, Guest Writer photo | StockSnap.io   Long before Yale trustees ever thought of co-founding a liberal arts college with NUS, so...

Confessions of a Yale-NUS Dancer

April 24, 2018

story | Kwok Yingchen, Guest Writer photo | Angad Srivastava, Guest Photographer   sYNCd showcase 2018: Confession, showed how much dance at Yale-...

No, Not the One With the Dinosaurs: Exploring the NUS Museum

April 24, 2018

story | Alysha Chandra, Editor photo | NUS Museum   I had a class assignment a few weeks back involving a visit to the National University of Sing...

Before the Presidency: Tan Tai Yong as a Historian

April 24, 2018

story | Reza Alam, Senior Writer photo | Yale-NUS Public Affairs   On the third floor of the East Core of Yale-NUS College lies the Senior Adminis...

Behind the Numbers: Exploring the Trends and Changes in This Year’s Major Declarations

April 24, 2018

story | Dion Ho, Senior Writer photo | Dion Ho; Yale-NUS Data Science   On April 6, 2018, The Octant published the major declaration statistics fo...

New Rectors Announced for Saga and Elm Colleges

April 19, 2018

story | Terence Anthony Wang, Editor-in-Chief; Yip Jie Ying, Managing Editor photo | Yale-NUS Public Affairs   On April 18, Associate Dean (Academ...

College and Married

April 17, 2018

story | Amanda Leong, Editor photo | Evan Ma, Guest Photographer   I never believed that soulmates existed until I met Dave Chappell ’18 and Vicky...

How To Catch A Human In 3 Days: An Introverted Extrovert’s Guide To Making Friends At EYW [EYW 2018]

April 17, 2018

story | Avani Adhikari, Prospective Student   Disclaimer: This writer may or may not have actually attended an EYW yet.   It’s finally he...

Breaking Barriers [EYW 2018]

April 17, 2018

story | Aryan Chhabra, Prospective Student photo | Aryan Chhabra   The sandy terrains of Gujarat, a state in India, is home to members of differe...

College and Engaged (Too)

April 6, 2018

story | Amanda Leong, Staff Writer photo | Calvin Yeo   On the evening of Valentine’s Day, I met Calvin Yeo ’20 and his fiancée Fan Yi, who is in...

Environmental Conservation: My Cause, Mission and Hope

April 6, 2018

story | Regina Veronica Vanda, Guest Writer photo | Regina Veronica Vanda   Ed: This article is the second in a series of articles featuring stud...

Highlights From the Major Declaration Statistics for the Class of 2020

April 6, 2018

story | Dion Ho, Senior Writer photo | Dion Ho, Senior Writer   From March 19 to 23, 182 students from the class of 2020 declared their majors in...

Six Yale-NUS Student Publications Announce Merger [April Fool’s]

April 1, 2018

story | The Managing Team photo | Yale-NUS Media Group   On Sunday, Apr. 1, six student publications — The Octant, Tònes, Diverge, The Cosmoscienc...

Students Need Better Ways to Report Faculty Behavior

March 24, 2018

story | Kanako Sugawara, Managing Editor   About a month ago, I had a conflict with a staff member of Yale-NUS College. To protect the privacy of eve...

The Yale-NUS Premium

March 23, 2018

story | Yip Jia Qi, Editor photo | Yip Jia Qi The units will be apparent in the article. Longer is not better. Disclaimer: This article is extremely ...

The Promise of Academic Freedom at Yale-NUS

March 23, 2018

story | Daryl Yang, Guest Writer photo | Photofunia   Recently, there has been much talk about the promise of academic freedom on our campus in l...

Protected: Highlights From Mar. 14’s Town Hall

March 15, 2018

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Frustrated at College Administration, Students Stage Sit-in Protest

March 15, 2018

story | Yip Jie Ying and Kanako Sugawara, Managing Editors; Dion Ho, Senior Writer Photo | Dave Lim, Guest Photographer   Ed: A previous version o...

Twelve students participate in the inaugural Yale-NUS Mapathon

March 15, 2018

story | Dion Ho, Senior Writer cover photo | Serena Jael Quay   On Feb. 26, the Yale-NUS College Urban Studies Department organized the inaugural ...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

March 15, 2018

story | Chia Jie Lin, Contributing Reporter photo | Peh Yi Lin, Staff Photographer   Conversations at Yale-NUS College are often dominated by out...

Graduation statistics from the first cohort of Yale-NUS graduates

March 15, 2018

story | Dion Ho, Senior Writer Cover photo | Dion Ho, Senior Writer Photo | Dion Ho, Senior Writer A table showing the top 16 NUS Degrees ranked by me...

100th Issue Special

March 15, 2018

Editor's Note   Dear Reader, This celebration of our 100th issue might not have happened, if not for a lucky, innocent question I asked in what feel...

Writers’ Centre Review

March 15, 2018

story | Alysha Chandra, Editor and Ambika Madan, Staff Writer photo | Yale-NUS Public Affairs   Ed: A previous version of the article stated that...

Yale-NUS Hosts Annual Singapore Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

March 12, 2018

story | Dion Ho, Staff Writer photo | Reyes Theodore-Craig, Official Photographer from Nanyang Philosophy   Ed: A previous version of this article...

College Students and Engaged: Timothy and Jael

March 12, 2018

story | Amanda Leong, Staff Writer photo | Timothy Goh Jael and Timothy at the Yale-NUS pond On Valentine’s Day, I did the next most romantic thing be...