This is a repost of a blog that I wrote last year addressing deferrals.  Worth a read if you find yourself in a limbo of sorts following the Early Action cycle, and feel free to comment with any further thoughts or questions! 

While I can’t exactly parlo Italiano and I’m not a Literature major, I’m a devoted Dante-phile at heart, and I think there’s a little bit of “Divine Comedy” in everything. 

Midterm season in college, much like college application season in high school, can be tough. Between reading Petrarch and physics problem sets, or studying for the SAT and Spanish homework, sometimes a little comic relief is appreciated. Hopefully this blog post will help - here’s a lighthearted video created by the Ezra Stiles Freshman Counselor team (a select group of seniors that live with and advise the freshman in their college) in collaboration with their college Master, Stephen Pitti ’91.

Last you heard from this traveling blogger, I was discussing the meaning of a deferral (if you haven't seen it, do check it out, and I hope you guys are holding in there).  But behind the scenes, I was also scrambling to finish my papers, studying for finals, packing up my room at Yale, and jumping through hoops to obtain a French visa (French bureaucracy… yeesh) before the 15th of January.

New Haven is due for unseasonably warm temperatures this week: sunny in the 50s and 60s.  As a creature made for warmer climates, I'm excited to be able to enjoy the foliage and the picturesque New England scenery of Yale in the fall without the help of a thick winter coat (at least for a few more days).     

Photo courtesy of Megan Salas, TC '13.