Tim Xu

What is the significance of a single life amongst billions? How do you quantify the value one life brings to the world? When do you realize a life has been extinguished?
We are individuals on this Earth, six billion strong, each possessing a life no more or less great than the any other. Yet over [...]

Here’s my tentative schedule for this semester, pending a few lotteries and whatnot. I’ll know what it is for good by the end of the week.

They say college is a period of self-discovery and self-realization, of epiphanies and maturation. Yet yesterday morning, at approximately 10:45 AM, when I handed in my Chemistry final and ended my first semester at Yale, I felt no different than I had the day I first walked through Phelps Gate. But I soon realized that, [...]

Tomorrow (or today, if you’re gonna be a stickler) is going to be extremely hectic. Classes are the same as every Monday and Wednesday, my heaviest days by far, but still not that bad. But it’s the various events that follow that make the hecticness.
After my Literature section in Harkness Hall, I have half an [...]

I have been on this beautiful campus for exactly a week, and it still does not cease to amaze. It’s been a breathtaking journey, day by day, through halls rich in history, courtyards and paths beaten by footsteps of the brilliant men and women who came before us. Each day is a pleasant, unassuming voyage [...]