Jasmine's Blog

Jasmine is a rising junior in Trumbull College from Winston-Salem, NC.  She is majoring in sociology and is particularly interested in the intersection of health and social inequalities.  As a staff member and multi-resident group member at the Afro-American Cultural Center, Jasmine spends a great deal of her time there working with Visions of Virtue Mentoring Program, The Black Solidarity Conference, and the Black Church at Yale.  When she isn't at The House, she is probably volunteering at the Yale-New Haven Hospital with the Trumbull Life History Program.  This summer Jasmine is splitting her time between a Dwight Hall fellowship with Yale's student-run case management agency, No Closed Doors, and being a summer recruitment coordinator!

Your Guide to "The Have"

At a student forum last week a prospective student asked my friends Alyssa, Vivian and I what there is to do in New Haven.  We responded with an exuberant and unequivocal “YES, THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO” and went on to describe the numerous art galleries, theaters, and restaurants all within walking distance of Yale just to present a small sense of the recreational activities we can choose from as students in New Haven.  We could feel their minds racing as prospective students tried to picture themselves enjoying a night of delicious frozen yogurt at Flavors on York Street, browsing

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The Elm City: Summer Edition

Perspective.  That's the biggest and smallest change I have found in my return back to New Haven for the summer.  I still wander around cross campus, grab a bacon, egg, and cheese bagel from G-Heav, and agonize over a workout at Payne Whitney Gym, but I do so now with the mentality of a New Haven resident, rather than just a Yale student.  When the director of my summer fellowship at Dwight Hall asked the seven summer fellows to write a report on "being a young professional living in the city for the summer" I s

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