Tyng Cup Celebration

The Tyng Cup is without a doubt one of the most sought after titles for residential colleges at Yale. It is the prize awarded to the overall winner of a series of intramural sports, and this year JE won it! This victory is truly a rarity. In the 77 years of Tyng Cup history, JE has only won the Tyng Cup twice (1959 and 1995). One of the reasons JE gives for our lack of Tyng Cup wins is that we are small college with few people. But this year, we took everyone by surprise and made up for our lack in numbers with our strength in spirit.
For IMs, I play Ping Pong in the fall, Squash in the winter, and Badminton in the spring. Just last night, our badminton team won the championships, marking an undefeated season!
In celebration, today we roasted 2 pigs in our courtyard, handed out medallions, and wore crowns on our day of GLORY. Oh yeah, free t-shirts too! :)

Dana (my badminton doubles partner and future suite mate!) and I with the Tyng Cup! Also, we got medals!

Dana and Randy (her boyfriend and our badminton captain! He writes such great e-mails that people sign up for the badminton panlist simply to receive his rallying cries.) Aren't they cute!? Randy got a crown for being the captain of an IM team (the one Dana is wearing) and he got another more legit crown because he was an IM secretary (someone who organizes IMs).

Washington DC Climate Concert

Chelsea and Max coming out of the Metro


Megan and Cody Earthchild


Matt and Dacy!


The capital building

I'm in USA Today!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-04-20-greencolleges20_ST_N.htm

Yale Spirit on the weekend

Freshmen Olympics on Old Campus


Calhoun huddle


Bulldogs!

Magnolia in the daytime

magnolia flowers by JE


"The Whale"- Yale ice rink

Magnolia flowers at dusk

Magnolias at night

beautiful flowers blooming in JE courtyard!

Mackerel Clouds

TOTB!

I'm currently heading a campaign against bottled water here on the Yale campus, and today, when the weather was very nice, we set up a booth on Cross Campus to collect petition/photo campaign. Many people came by to sign our pledge and it was very fun!

All on JE's money...be jealous!

Last Friday, I won a the JE Cultural Draw lottery and was able to go to New York, dine at a 5 star restaurant, and watch a Broadway show all on JE's money. We dined at Bond 45, where I had the fried calamari for appetizer and a lobster and seafood linguini for my main course. Then we saw the Broadway musical "Memphis". It was my first broadway musical and I was very much in awe. However, I think that the Lion King would have been more fun...but I'm not complaining

Yesterday night, I went to see Hot Tub Time Machine at the Criterion theater. JE student council paid for our ticket, a popcorn and a drink! Too bad the movie was really stupid...haha. I would have been super angry if I had paid for the ticket, but because it was free, I actually enjoyed this shallow movie fairly much.

Today, JE hosted a lecture with the 2009 Chemistry Nobel Laurette, Thomas Steiz, at the Yale Law School auditorium. I went to the event and even spoke with him afterward! While I did not comprehend most of the chemistry involved, I think few in the audience did. He did do a great job of imitating Crick and he had cool pictures and stories about his time in Stockholm receiving the Nobel Prize.