<p>Bulldog days is great, remember, there is going to be a lot of work, sweat, and possibly tears coming from your body as your studies begin and culminate. Bulldog is a great hype, and wonderful for school spirit, reliving school history, and looking forward to all you will achieve at school, but beware, it will not always tell you about the hard, hard moments you will have to go through in order to finish school here.</p>
<p>Good luck to all you new Yalies, hope to see you one day at morys, leave plenty of room in your tummy ;)</p>
<p>Strike threat for week of April 18 on troubled campus</p>
<p>"Members of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization issued an ultimatum to Yale President Richard Levin on Wednesday to grant the group union recognition within one week or face a five-day strike by hundreds of graduate teaching assistants beginning on April 18."</p>
<p>".... but beware, it will not always tell you about the hard, hard moments you will have to go through in order to finish school here."</p>
<p>That certainly sounds ominous! Hard, hard moments? My kid is just a soph, but so far hasn't encountered any hard, hard moments. Hard work, yes, but nothing unexpected. </p>
<p>I doubt that the strike will happen, Byerly, as informal surveys show most TAs not for it. If it does, it won't cancel the classes, as they will manage to hold them anyway, as they have in the past.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, When I say hard, hard moments, I don't mean anything life threatening or dangerous, I merely meant that some students go through periods where, as undergrads, they may not feel as equally treated as the graduate students, they may feel that they are not getting, in fact what Yale has promised them, and have felt like really losing it a few times. It has happened to numerous friends of mine, all turned out o.k, but they did question why they went to yale halfway through their sophomore year. I told them to stick it out, and they are all glad they did. For me, Yale was pretty awesome, and I would not trade it for the world, especially my Junior and Senior years !</p>
<p>I went to Teachers College Columbia University after I graduated Yale and finished up an Ed. M, and Ed. D. in Education. Both Universities fully delivered what they promised, and although I do prefer the roomy, green atmosphere of Yale's campus, I must say that Columbia had, in itself an awe about it that made anyone on campus know they were in an Ivy League school. Sadly, the walls of Columbia are not draped with Ivy as in Princeton, Yale or Harvard, but it does the job just the same. (( and yes, the tales are true, the graduate students usually, if not always, get the attention of the professors before any undergrad !!))</p>