Student Blogs
What better way to get a feel for life at Yale than to read along with current students as they experience it firsthand? We've invited the students below to blog about their experiences, thus providing an intimate and real-time view into the life of a Yalie. Join Michael and Amandla on their journeys of intellectual, social, creative, and cultural discovery!
Michael Nedelman, a senior in Trumbull College from Miami, FL, studies both Film and Biology at Yale. Over the course of four years, he has performed four types of South Asian dance, juggled fire, and launched a joint art-medical project in India. In the sciences, his research has centered primarily around neuro- and immunobiology. Current film projects include his senior thesis film, video design at the Yale School of Drama, and an experimental documentary and visual study of the postwar avant-garde. After graduation, he hopes to continue his filmed research of transgendered persons in Argentina before applying to film school.
Amandla Ooko-Ombaka is a sophomore in Branford. She was born and bred in Nairobi, Kenya. She lived for a couple of years in Wausau, WI, but spent the last two years of high school in Sevenoaks, Kent. She is a Mathematics and Economics major who loves differential equations. When she is not doing bordered hessians or hanging out with her friends, Amandla is putting on events as the Director of Leadership Development Workshops for the Leadership Institute, and Director of Investor Relations for Global21. However her real passions are eating exotic food, sleeping a lot, and dancing (with the Yale Ballroom Dance Team and Rhythmic Blue) just as much!
