<p>It is so upsetting to me that ANYONE would write about “dreading” Yale. Yale! Of all places! I have never seen or heard of any college – any place – that was more welcoming, more entertaining, more stimulating, more fun. If you can’t enjoy Yale, the fault, dear Brutus, is not in your college, but in yourself.</p>
<p>Sleep deprivation, bad nutrition: You can do something about that. Go to bed. Eat well. Exercise regularly. All it takes is deciding to do it. And if one day you decide to pull an all-nighter or have an extra scoop of ice cream . . . that’s OK. Just take responsibility for your choices, don’t let yourself feel like a pinball in someone else’s game.</p>
<p>Mediocrity? Nothing about Yale is mediocre. Nothing. Measure yourself by what you are getting out of the experience, not by how you are doing in some imaginary race against other people.</p>