Ad Hoc

Ad Hoc

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I got life advice from an old guy & hit by a van.

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Arden Yum
Feb 26, 2024
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Hello! I’m writing this on the train again. On Friday I had lunch with Emily Sundberg of Feed Me and three of my friends from Yale. We talked about podcasts, our media consumption habits, beauty brands, New York, LA, dating, bosses, career trajectories, and contentious magazine articles about women joining Yale fraternities and Skull and Bones. It was refreshing and stimulating and we left feeling like we were at the beginning of something (our adult lives? a new group chat?). Emily linked my letter in hers, and I’m excited to be writing for new people!*

The ADHOC categories of the week are Amused by, Doing, Humbling, On Repeat, and Consuming. Thank you Andres and Everett for your contributions. Text or email me if you want to be in the next one.

En route to lunch; the sunset on the train back to New Haven.

*By way of introduction: I’m Arden, a junior at Yale studying Cognitive Science. I like pop culture/reading/the internet/food/fashion/business, and this letter contains my thoughts on the aforementioned topics as a Gen Zer/student/New Yorker/WOC/cons…

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