<p>Does anyone know if the frats are throwing any parties for the prefrosh during Bulldog Days? Particularly Wednesday night?</p>
<p><a href=“Admitted students flood campus for Bulldog Days - Yale Daily News”>http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/04/24/admitted-students-flood-campus-for-bulldog-days</a>. </p>
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<p>Lol @ dry. It was definitely a blast, but definitely not dry.</p>
<p>For better or worse, Y has a very lenient policy towards alcohol consumption. D1 was a froco, they were trained to keep kids from hurting themselves, not preventing them from drinking.</p>
<p>@MikeNY5 How were you able to get alcohol?</p>
<p>Ill answer both of your questions (from the other thread and this) now. Sorry for the poor phrasing; I’m tired. </p>
<p>I found the experience to be very enjoyable. I was lucky in that I knew some people, but I pretty much just found a random group and hung out with them for 3 days. They were all clearly brilliant, but we went college hoping, stayed out until 4 AM, and did a ton of other fun stuff. In no way were they boring.</p>
<p>As for the alcohol, I didn’t drink, but it was definitely there if you went to the right parties. I ended up in a rescollege on both Tuesday and Wed nights with upperclassmen and a few other prefrosh. Some drank and some didn’t. It was mostly pong and loud music, but it was pretty cool to see what the party scene was like. I assume that if you just followed the schedule you wouldn’t be exposed to it, but we veered off quite a bit.</p>
<p>for future profrosh’s sake…</p>
<p>usually the frats aren’t a huge destination for BDD, there are some parties there but the usual evening destinations are the party suites in res colleges (eg td octet, branford god quad.) this years BDD was unique in that Weds night was included. Wednesday night is a pretty big night at Yale bc of Toad’s so there’s usually a lot going on.</p>
<p>^they tried to take us, but we didn’t have yale IDs haha. They were super chill about the whole “drink if you want, but no pressure” thing, which is why I was really comfortable (won’t be drinking until I matriculate; and even then, I’m not sure).</p>
<p>Yeah people are really chill about drinking here. No one’s gonna pressure you into it and you’ll have a good time either way. That being said, there’s usually a lot going on on the weekends and BDD is only a small sampling. Hope yall had a good time and decide to commit!</p>
<p>“Hi, I go to Penn, and I’m a pretentious jerk!” That’s all I got lol</p>
<p>@MikeNY5 Okay fair haha. But I’m really struggling. I don’t know whether to choose Yale or Brown! I want my college experience to be really fun with lots of ragers, and I feel that the Open Curriculum is liberating. I also want to study engineering, econ, or computer science, and Brown is better in all of those (except econ, but it’s still good there).</p>
<p>@NewYorkerGuy , why do you say you’re struggling. It seems to me that you know Brown is a better fit. Why the reluctance to commit?</p>
<p>I’m only looking at this from a parent perspective but I think NYGuy would fit much better at Brown. It would be much better all around.</p>
<p>Yale is definitely better in Econ. But you’re clearly struggling over prestige. It’s your choice; you don’t want a miserable 4 years.</p>
<p>Aaalso, I know many cs majors at yale who turned down stanford. The 1:1 student to faculty ratio is amazing, and the students are just as brilliant. The whole “yale sucks at CS and engineering” thing is PURELY a cc invention.</p>
<p>@MikeNY5 I also have heard that Yale’s CS curriculum is super theoretical. It doesn’t have very many “creative” courses in web/app development and design (those courses are mostly in the Art school I believe). Is this the case? I looked at Brown’s CS curriculum and I thought that the sheer number and diversity of the available courses surpasses those at Yale. But Yale’s 1:1 attention is appealing. So I don’t know what to do…</p>
<p>The way I see it: you’ll get a fantastic CS education at either. I can’t speak to specific courses, but you’re catching the Yale CS wave at the right time. Yale desperately wants its CS program to be in the Stanford-Berkley-Harvard category, and it’s pumping an ungodly amount of resources into it right now.</p>
<p>@MikeNY5 True, but it doesn’t help that the administration doesn’t support student innovation like BlueBook+</p>
<p>NewYorkerGuy, too bad about BlueBook+, it reminds me of a time that I met a wonderful, intelligent, funny, beautiful girl who liked me a lot, but in certain lighting, it looked like her right ear was just a little bigger than her left ear. That just wouldn’t do. </p>
<p>I’m (slightly) sorry for the snark. I guess you’ll make up your mind in next day or two. </p>
<p>Before @MikeNY5 chimes in, I’ll give you my two cents, and I say this with a very happy son at Yale: If you want to learn computer graphics, computer game design, computer animation, or web design (as opposed to just the nuts and bolts of writing code and learning compilers etc) and the choices are between Yale and Brown – and it will cost you the same to go to either school – then go to Brown! Randy Pausch, who helped build Carnegie Mellon’s CS Department into what it is today, trained at Brown. Randy’s mentor, Andy van Dam (the boy in “Toy Story” is supposedly named Andy to honor Dr. van Dam’s pioneering contribution to computer graphics and hypertext. see – <a href=“Andries van Dam - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries_van_Dam</a>), still teaches at Brown. Brown’s CS courses include creative gems such as 2D Game Engines, 3d Game Engines, Topics in Game Theory, Logic for Hackers, Human-Robot Interaction, Computer Vision, Virtual Reality Design for Science, 3D Computer Animation . . to name just a few – none of which are taught by Yale’s CS Department. My son, who absolutely loves Yale, would probably be at Brown studying CS if Brown’s financial aid was on par with Yale’s. Unfortunately for my son, Brown would have cost our family $30K more per year than Yale. So, my son chose Yale because our family couldn’t afford Brown’s price tag – but Yale’s CS program is just not of the same caliber as Brown’s.</p>