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Where are you from?

April 17, 2020 The Octant1

“While I’m not sure that everyone faces these same third culture kid problems as I do, it sure would be ironically wholesome to belong in a community where everyone’s split between communities.”

Clementi Roads, Take Me Home

April 17, 2020 Avani Adhikari0

Michael and Avani write about what home in Singapore looks like to them.

Singapore’s erratic immigration policies can destroy Yale-NUS

March 23, 2020March 24, 2020 Terence Wang0

Singapore’s minimum salary for an Employment Pass hikes to $3,900. Terence writes about what it means for Yale-NUS.

Finding a Place on a Map That Has Already Been Drawn: An Exchange Student’s Perspective

March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 Sarah Garrod0

Finding a place among a map that has already been drawn – Sarah talks about her experience of navigating Yale-NUS as an outsider.

Yale-NUS during COVID-19

March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Avani Adhikari0

COVID-19 has changed the world around us. Here is how Yale-NUS is affected.

Helping Your Favourite Professor Get Tenure: Faculty Evaluations and How Students Can Contribute

March 13, 2020March 17, 2020 Dion Ho0

For most professors, tenure is the holy grail. How can we, as students, contribute to a professor’s chances of getting tenure? Dion reports.

A Glimpse of Minority Experiences Through Attending a Religious Service

February 23, 2020February 23, 2020 Ryan Ma0

story | Ryan Ma | Staff Writer Photo | Google Maps Street View As a non-religious person, I’ve never been a fan of churches. Don’t get me wrong — I love visiting church buildings, especially when they are historically or architecturally significant. But it’s one thing to amble awestruck through St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican […]

Away, But Not Apart

February 23, 2020February 23, 2020 Xie Yihui1

story | Xie Yihui, Staff Writer photos | #FightforWuhan Chinese Student Association in North America On the first day of the Lunar New Year, 5.86 million overseas Chinese students woke up not to festivity from home, but to news of a surging number of coronavirus patients and saddening reports — real and fake — […]

Coping: With Reality, With Myself, With the End of the World

February 15, 2020February 15, 2020 Shikhar Agarwal1

Shikhar shares his experience of fighting for the climate, and the world.

R21: Unrestricted Access to Why R21 Matters

February 15, 2020February 15, 2020 Michelle Lee0

At Yale-NUS, we enjoy a great degree of freedom of speech. But why do we silence ourselves on the topic of sexual violence on campus?

The Lennon Wall Revisited: A Mainlander’s Perspective

February 9, 2020February 9, 2020 Winnie Li0

Winnie talks about what it is like to be a Mainlander in Yale-NUS.

The Octant Explains: Coronavirus

February 9, 2020February 9, 2020 Rebecca Tang0

Rebecca compiles everything we know so far about the current coronavirus outbreak.

Megxit, to a Black Brit.

February 8, 2020February 8, 2020 Michael Sagna0

Meghan Markle just left the Royal Family. Michael explains what that means as a Black Brit.

To Tinder or not to Tinder? An Alternative Narrative of the Undergrad Student

February 3, 2020February 3, 2020 Michael Sagna0

Michael recounts how the highs and lows of his first semester correlated with his addiction to a particular dating app.

Student Solidarity: What is the CAA and Why Should Students Care?

January 28, 2020January 28, 2020 Avani Adhikari0

What is happening in India? Avani talks to students and academics to find out.

Decoding Traditions at Yale-NUS

November 19, 2019November 30, 2019 The Octant0

Aryan and Wisha decode traditions of Yale-NUS: What they are, how they came to be and what they say about us.

Making Change with the Social Impact Fellowship

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Xie Yihui0

Dance workshops in Lebanese refugee camps and design thinking in Singaporean rental flats: CIPE’s Social Impact Fellowship allows Yale-NUS students to make change all around the world. Yihui gives us an introduction to some of them.

Problematic Placements & Planetary Positions: The Astrology of a Yale-NUS Student

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Muhammed Naeem Shehryar0

“People at Yale-NUS are intensely chaotic. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean this in a ‘will drink too much soju at 11:13 pm on a Saturday night, despite the fact that their 11:59 pm Literature and Humanities submission isn’t yet finished’ way. I mean that in the ‘your planetary placements all contradict each other so that every aspect of your personality is at war with each other’ way.” Shehryar reads our birth charts.

A Case for the Expansion of Green Lunches

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Michael Sagna0

“Climate change activism and advocacy is a role we have to choose to fulfill, rather than an opinion that we hold, and it therefore follows that we have to repeatedly make active choices to commit to solving the climate crisis.” Michael tells us why we should accept more plant-based food in the dining halls.

Dean of Faculty Affirms Report on Interdisciplinary Higher Education

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Ryan Ma0

Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty Jeannette Ickovics spoke at a panel discussion on Oct. 23, 2019 at the ArtScience Museum Singapore titled “Branches from the Same Tree”, on the benefits and challenges surrounding the liberal arts. Ryan reports.