Gabby is a neuroscience major on the pre-medical track, and when she isn't at Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, she can be found performing with Yale Children's Theater, running, or drinking coffee. Favorite Animal: Samoyed Inspirational Quote: "Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda

Storm is a first-year and potential English major, an actor, writer, pianist (and Chopin super-fan), casual Broadway enthusiast, stuffed animal collector, and lover of all forms of media from Love Island to Macbeth! Favorite Animal: Pronghorn (the 2nd fastest land animal!) Inspirational Quote: "You are the author of your own story."

Joseph is an Ethics, Politics, and Economics major... or a music major... or both(?), who enjoys performing music theater, nerding-out about Barbershop quartets, and loves the outdoors (biking, hiking, and skiing: you name it, I'll do it with you!) Favorite Animal: Capybara Inspirational Quote: "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Marthe Troly-Curtin

Tiki is a Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry major who can be found playing violin in the Davenport Pops orchestra, drinking obscene amounts of coffee, or getting a little too competitive in a card game. Favorite Animal: Red panda Inspirational Quote: “Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” - Maya Angelou

Cat is a prospective Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology major and a Soprano in the Yale Glee club who loves Original chip flavors, the movies The Sixth Sense and Double Indemnity, classic rock, Portuguese pasteis de nata, and vanilla-scented candles. Favorite Animal: Her Miniature Poodle Sage Inspirational Quote: "Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here." - Dumbledore

Yara is a junior majoring in Economics, a soprano in the Yale Glee Club, a questionable violinist, and a huge fan of warm cafés, small dogs, pumpkin spice lattes, and using the lower end of her singing range. Favorite Animal: Yorkie

Elsie Harrington is a senior Theater and Performance Studies major from Montana who loves Shakespeare, musical theater, books, and jazz. What more could you need? Favorite Animal: Elephant

Gui is a Linguistics major, a bass in the Yale Glee Club, a collector of fonts, an amateur logician, and a passionate advocate of linguistic descriptivism. Favorite Animal: Sea Otter Inspirational Quote: “On ne sait jamais comment les choses vont tourner.” - Robert Taylor

Max is a physics major, a passionate member of the waterpolo team, and dabbles in the saxophone. Favorite Animal: Green Sea Turtle Inspirational Quote: "The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability." - Richard Feynman

Jade Klacko is an American Studies major with a concentration in audio, visual, literary, and performance cultures (gosh, that's a mouthful) who loves electronic dance music (ironic, right?), frolicking in the sun and sand (FL-girl core), warm hugs (and baths...and soups), songwriting, crafts, and the people that fill her life (Redhot especially)! Favorite Animal: Unicorn Inspirational Quote: "The things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow." - James Victore

Maya is a junior American Studies major, undercover theater kid, and local frisbee-flinger on Yale Ramona, the women’s ultimate frisbee team! Favorite Animal: Duck Inspirational Quote: “I love adventures.” - Elizabeth Holmes

Dixon is an electrical engineering major who eats egg stir fry six days a week (and sleeps through the seventh day). Favorite Animal: Barn owl Inspirational Quote: "Your love is one in a million; I couldn’t buy it at any price. But out of 9.999 hundred thousand other loves, statistically, some of them would be equally nice.” -Tim Minchin

Angélique is a History and Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology double-major who loves theatre, is unofficially minoring in music performance, and can be found speedwalking across campus to make it to all the events on her GCal. Favorite Animal: Swan Inspirational Quote: "Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem

Josh is a Global Affairs major, a Double Bassist, and a National Team Oarsman who you will find munching away on a Bar of Chocolate every. single. day. Favorite Animal: Penguin Inspirational Quote: "There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met." - William Butler Yeats

Ruthie is a History major, an alto in the Yale Glee Club, an amateur cellist, an amateur knitter, and a *professional* lover of Dirty Dancing. Favorite Animal: Orca Whale Inspirational Quote: "Money money money, must be funny, in a rich man's world." - Karl Marx

Rose is a jolly ol' senior who likes to apply for things in her spare time. If she had space for hobbies, she would enjoy historical fiction reading, watercolor painting, and rock climbing. Favorite Animal On Land: Red Panda. In the Sea: North Atlantic Right Whale Inspirational Quote: "It was jvst one of those things" - Cole Porter (the 'jvst' is not a typo)

Belle is a prospective molecular biophysics & biochemistry major on the pre-medical track, who enjoys playing the ukulele, baking macarons, watching New Girl, drinking coffee, and dancing (she's been doing ballet for 15 years!!) Favorite Animal: Elephant Inspirational Quote: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -Socrates

Tadao is a very interesting musician who doesn’t know what he wants to study but loves to rollick and ponder. Favorite Animal: Cat Inspirational Quote: “I’m coming for you, Storm.” – Lightning McQueen

Krish is a (pure!) math major who loves teaching, rock climbing, ethics, Taco Bell, La La Land, Laufey, and How I Met Your Mother. Favorite Animal: Hawk

August loves collecting music, dogs, nature documentaries, eating for three people and anything that could turn into a good story, and he will be an English major if none of those distract him first. Favorite Animal: Sea lion Inspirational Quote: “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” -Mark Twain

Daniel is a prospective Urban Studies major and illiterate pianist by day and a ballroom dancing DJ on Skis by night. Favorite Animal(s): All of the dogs in the Silliman courtyard Inspirational Quote: "It's a sad song, but we sing it anyway" - Anaïs Mitchell (Hadestown)