Get to know Yale College Class of 2026 graduate Miles Zaud! #Yale2026 🎓 If Miles Zaud isn’t reporting and writing a story in the manner of Hunter S. Thompson or Tom Wolfe, odds aren’t half bad he’s writing or playing music in a style dear to you. Jazz, folk, gospel, classical, musical theater — they’re all in his repertoire. Maybe he’s seated at a concert grand, maybe he’s stomping his foot, fiddle and bow in motion. Maybe he’s scoring cues for a film. Whatever the endeavor, Zaud is absorbed, a young man immersed in the timelessness of a creative flow state. The Saybrook senior grew up in Topanga, California, just north of Santa Monica, playing piano, surfing, and undertaking homeschool adventures, including travel to “primitive skills gatherings” around the American West. These are back-to-the-land festivals in which participants, hundreds strong, aim to live in tune with the ways of early humans: Starting fires with sticks, handcrafting atlatls (javelins) and traps for procuring...