To me, maintaining mental wellness and having financial security are directly linked. Having to constantly work towards obtaining funds through on-campus jobs, off-campus jobs, or some combination of the two while participating in a grueling academic semester has a serious potential to drain a student’s spirit. This is exacerbated by Read more…
Living at home means I sleep on my family’s couch, do my work on an old, borrowed laptop, and navigate two family members constantly coming home from work, one being a nurse. My experience of Yale classes online in the spring makes me anxious about a digital semester. As a Read more…
During the COVID-19 crisis, I was living in a housing situation where I would have been unable to regularly attend my classes. I was given permission to return to Yale after Spring break, but the inequity of class and privilege was exposed by those who either struggled or were fine Read more…
I haven’t beared the same emotional and financial burdens that many of my FGLI peers have during these past few months. My rage towards Yale, which is demanding that students pay beyond what they can afford, doesn’t compare to that of many of my peers whose lives and beings are Read more…
“Once my spring break class trip was cancelled, I planned to remain on campus for the duration of the break in order to save money on travel and to avoid unsafe living conditions. Midway through, of course, this became impossible for me, as dorms were closing. I spoke with both Read more…
“My name is Shaheer Malik and I am an international student from Pakistan who graduated this spring. After our classes went online due to COVID-19, I decided not to go home like most of my peers and stayed in my off-campus apartment in New Haven. I had wanted to go Read more…
“My first year I received enough scholarships from both my high school and local community to not have to have worked a job which was amazing as I got to spend my first year exploring and fearlessly participating in all the extracurriculars I was genuinely interested in. For me this Read more…
“Rather than spending most of my weeks planning around classes, talks, club meetings, or social gatherings, I explicitly schedule my days around my 19 hours of work every week in order to meet Yale’s SIC. It is difficult to justify taking advantage of Yale’s resources when I could instead be Read more…
“I was able to go home to my family in rural Maine, where my parents still had their jobs and the pandemic was relatively muted. Financially, things were stable and it was actually nice to have time with my parents and my siblings who also came home. But during an Read more…
This summer, I am doing an internship with a local charter school network; it was supposed to have been a paid internship, but now with the pandemic and economic downturn, it is unpaid. I was fortunate enough to be awarded a fellowship for a separate research project that I am Read more…