<p>Current yalies: can you describe the pros/cons of the college you live in....just want to know which is "the best to be in", or which to hope to avoid. i know the selection is random, but just want a little background</p>
<p>Davenport ~ just renovated, gorgeous (nice rooms, courtyards are really pretty, love the dining hall, the basement we share with pierson has alll sorts of cool stuff in it, and of course there's my favorite part, the library...). Admin is also really supportive of student-initiated projects etc. (our master was quite helpful last year when we wanted to start a new orchestra, for example). And we get to live in Welch freshman year.</p>
<p>The best part, though, is the people, and I think you'll find that in any of the colleges. The renovated colleges may have nicer facilities, but yalies are Yalies and you'll find tons of amazing people no matter where you live on this campus.</p>
<p>All of the colleges have pros/cons. Many of them are simply quite beautiful. Others, like Stiles and Morse, can have a bit more modern and less attractive architecture, but Stiles is the dominant IM powerhouse (and you can rub that in) and Morse has nice singles arrangement so that you get the best of both worlds. Location-wise they're all pretty clustered. TD is supposed to be the most 'isolated' but it's actually the closest to Science Hill.. and the community there is supposed to be great.</p>
<p>Most people come to love and feel proud of their residential college. If you don't you can always just ask to be reassigned (a relatively simple process), but this rarely happens.</p>
<p>the best? calhoun, obviously. :D</p>
<p>seriously, though, don't stress about it. there is no 'best' college, just as there is no 'worst.' and the college you're in doesn't ultimately determine all that much except for location and the quality of your room. for example, calhoun's dining hall is definitely one of the worst, but it's not as if you can't go eat in any other college (with the exception of berkelely) whenever you want. i guess a renovated college is preferred, as is a college that's closer to the center of campus, but even the un-renovated colleges (like calhoun) aren't bad at all.</p>
<p>but honestly, it's really pointless to even think about which colleges you want/don't want because residential college assignments are completely random (unless you're a legacy), so there's no point in getting your hopes up since there's only a 1 in 12 chance that you will get your college of choice. rest assured, you WILL come to love your college. i promise you this: whichever college you get will be awesome.....just not as awesome as calhoun. :D</p>
<p>That's funny.. I eat in Calhoun quite often just because it's the closest (right across the street) from Durfee.. Sunday's 'icecream bar' is paradise for the glutton.</p>
<p>yes, i eat breakfast there and sometimes lunch and dinner because it's so close to old campus. and the food isn't bad....it's just that the food in most of the other colleges happens to be better.</p>
<p>Davenport is seriously the best college at Yale. Our basement is amazing (the Yale Herald just said we have the best gym facilities) with a printing press, papermaking and book binding rooms, auditorium, music practice rooms, dance room with floating floor, digital media center, pottery room (complete with wheels and kilns) etc. etc. The college itself is gorgeous. We're gothic on the outside but gregorian on the inside. Our dining hall has a waterford crystal chandellier worth over 1 million dollars. The people are great, we have good "davensports" (intermurals), the Dive (our buttery) is a wonderful place to socialize (the wine-game especially fun), we haven't gotten our pool table which is still being restored, but the "chill" spaces for games/tv, etc. are great. The master and dean are easily accessable. I learned how to cajun dance the other night in our dining room. The food too, is amazing. Freshman housing in Welch is nice. Princess suites are money. Residential colleges are the best thing ever. I don't know how I could handle college without davenport. really.</p>