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September 10, 2018 •
Encounters, Yale in the World •
Views: 745
By Isabella Li y father hadn’t been to his birthplace in 50 years. He made his grand homecoming when we visited this past summer. My uncle, his only immediate family member still living in China, accompanied us. His black Buick Lacrosse...
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October 22, 2016 •
Encounters, Online Content •
Views: 1761
Revelatory reflections on the people and places of Oman...
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October 19, 2016 •
Encounters, Online Content, Uncategorized •
Views: 1410
By Stephan Sveshnikov i. he first step is to notice. I was halfway through my third semester of college when I realized I’d been walking on nothing but concrete for months. The next day I got off the sidewalk and made my way on dirt and...
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April 24, 2016 •
Encounters, Online Content •
Views: 1652
“Although I haven’t traveled to many different places, I can begin to trace their remarkable features from my friends’ stories, just like looking at veins on leaves to imagine the image of the tree in summer.”...
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February 26, 2016 •
Encounters, Online Content •
Views: 2969
Hanoi, Paris, and somewhere in between. By Ngan Vu...
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February 8, 2015 •
Encounters, Online Content •
Views: 3426
By Sami Glass Finding Waldo is much more challenging than trying to spot an athlete here at Yale. If you overlooked the physique, then the blue PowerAde water bottle is a dead give away. This phenomenon holds true in many high schools and...
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January 27, 2015 •
Encounters, Online Content •
Views: 2007
By Micaela Bullard On the seventh of July of 2000, Bernaldina Palomino Quispe sat on a hill that did not belong to her and refused to move. She was twenty-two years old then, a squat woman with black hair who had already lost her front...
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November 18, 2014 •
Encounters, Online Content •
Views: 3620
By Mahir Rahman When your stomach calls, an easy go-to in Korea is a cup of ramen noodles, a dish just as popular among Koreans as it is among American undergraduates studying into the wee hours of the morning. At a traditional ramen...
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October 18, 2014 •
Encounters, Online Content •
Views: 1821
By Caroline Wray I looked out the bus window over the edge of the highway at Rocamadour, a town in the French Pyrenees described by its tourism website as “home to a cluster of buildings clinging to the rock half way up the sheer...
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October 18, 2014 •
Encounters, Online Content •
Views: 2254
By Eugene Lim The first thing you notice is that the sand is gone. It has been replaced by sterile rubber mats – an unsurprising, even laudable, development (think of the children!), but you prefer the sand anyway. There was something...
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