- First and last name
- Yale affiliation (if applicable)
- Email address
- 250 words or less describing your photo and its connection to Yale University. The Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications reserves the right to edit the text you submit before posting online.
Again, please see the link to the contest for the most accurate information.
Here were the entries from the founder of this organization, Ian Applegate. If you're not too discouraged by the composition of the photographs or the complexity of the two hundred and fifty word essays accompanying each, it remains open for anyone to submit their photos with their stories and we remain confident that you will be encouraged to do so.
Here were the entries from the founder of this organization, Ian Applegate. If you're not too discouraged by the composition of the photographs or the complexity of the two hundred and fifty word essays accompanying each, it remains open for anyone to submit their photos with their stories and we remain confident that you will be encouraged to do so.
"This was the view from my apartment in 2006 when I worked at Koffee Too? on York Street as a barista. I remember watching the sun rise over East Rock in the morning from the balcony of my noisy $500/mo apartment (all the ambulances took Park Street to get to the hospital) but most of all I remember wondering about my memories of the buildings on the interior. All my steamtunnel excursions and explorations behind locked doors; now I'm older and don't conduct myself in such ways. This was the precipice of that change in me, to see the beauty of it all from the outside, no longer wondering what was within and to see it at face value, as it always was that castle down the street from where I was raised, which perhaps someday I'd understand. I think I do now grasp the meaning behind it. That beauty is in the innate complexities of your immediate surroundings, and it takes an immense amount of attention to detail to understand what the value of that is. I think this could be seen as one of the oldest places in America, if not that, then maybe the best preserved. With so much old-world character, it's hard to doubt the intentions were ancient, and the reality at the moment is it remains our quiet secret. Now I find myself inching to that two hundred and fifty word limit. Eleven words left, I say this: there will be a sociocultural revolution here soon."
"I had a dream once that all the streets of New Haven had become flooded, like Venice Italy, and I was in a kayak (a 1970's Folbot sea kayak, to be specific) where I came to the entrance of Scroll and Key. I rowed up not anticipating to see the kind of velvet ropes awaiting me at the entrances one might have expected at the York Square Cinema; worn down, with countless hands having changed its texture to something smoother than velvet. I walked in, startled to find that what on display was everything that had ever been stolen from me in the past. My comic book collection in 8th grade. Bicycles throughout the years. Analog keyboards and notebooks I had written. Anything I had ever lost or misplaced. Next to each item was a placard with the year it was stolen, and who it was stolen by. Alarmingly, many of these names were familiar. I left, dumbfounded, to return the next day in this dream to find that the entrance was sealed as usual. I still think of this whenever I walk by."
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New Yorker Magazine editor David Remnick seems confident that Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016. This comes as no surprise as she is the most qualified Democratic Party candidate still since Barack Obama. Her work as Secretary of State will undoubtedly give her more International experience than any other candidate arguably other than Condoleezza Rice, should she also run. Her experience in the White House will mean that even on the very first day she will know which way the bathroom is located.
