The Yale Glee Club Blog

Here is a fantastic and touching blog from our most beloved Stephanie Tubiolo, a junior in Silliman and a Glee Club member since freshman year! Enjoy! Oh How I Love Glee This year, I brought a pillow to Glee-treat for the first time. As I watched our incredible new members scramble onto the buses with stacks of textbooks and wrinkled sheets tugged off their beds just minutes before, my head was filled with memories of the swirling excitement of my first retreat—and how much it meant to me. It was my first time being out of contact with my family. It was my first time traveling with people I didn’t know. It was my first time having to pack on my own (thus the lack of pillow). And it was absolutely the first time I felt like I belonged at Yale. I entered Yale the epitome of an embarrassingly over-attached child. I cried every day of my Pre-orientation Harvest trip, I cried when my amazing parents and brother left orientation, and I called home every day for the entire...

A new Glee Club member Sharif Vakili describes his experiences and memories from our 2012-2013 retreat! The yale glee club retreat has been one of the most uplifting and emotionally rewarding experiences I've ever had at Yale. And I mean that as a senior who's in his first and sadly last year with the group. The people in the glee club have been so unbelievably welcoming, sweet and interesting. They constantly emit positive energy. And in it's contagious. I'm pretty sure if a grade A dirtbag joined a rehearsal with us, either he'd lose his capacity to be douchy or maybe he'd just explode.  Beyond the special goodness of the glee club members that made the retreat so pleasant, the cool little events we did and the spirit we approached them with really added to the retreat. I always looked forward to rehearsal and was super excited to get started, to sing, to learn, and of course, to hear Jeff give his various inspiring, memorable (remember-- every entrance ...