Totally Random Exciting stuff @ Yale - for those admitted

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<p>Did some research and found the following exciting stuff which is totally random:</p>

<li>They have a Pete Mondrian painting in their gallery (yay!)</li>
<li>You can go to Oxbridge for an exchange year</li>
<li>Yale Symph Orch plays Prokofiev (yay!)</li>
<li>They have 5 types of fruit for breakfast</li>
<li>They give us intls on FinAid money to go home once a year:) </li>
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<p>Let’s post other random stuff so that we could become totally anxious 2 GET THERE SOON! (is if we are not yet:))</p>

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<li>The Center for British Art has the largest collection of British art outside Britain (and they have Turners!!!!)</li>
<li>It (meaning the above) was designed by LOUIS KAHN (!) and just won the American Institute of Architects' prestigious 25 Year Award (the Guggenheim Museum in NYC and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are previous recipients)</li>
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<li>A Music CD Library equipped with CD players (according to vivaldi 87)</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.yale.edu/opa/imagegallery/campus/image_hi/harkness_memorial_gate.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yale.edu/opa/imagegallery/campus/image_hi/harkness_memorial_gate.jpg&lt;/a> (AHHH gorgeous)</li>
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<p>vivaldi87, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH</p>

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<p>When nathaniel hale said "i regret i have but one life to give to my country," supposedly, he learned that from a translation he picked up in a class at Yale.</p>

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<p>haha, that image is my computer background right now :)</p>

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<li>Sterling Memorial Library has 15 floors of stacks. (not to mention over 11 million books...wonderful for bibliophiles like myself)</li>
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<li>Library Holdings (2003-04) Type Number
Bound volumes 11.4 million
Periodical subscriptions 66,867
Units on microform 9.8 million
Units of audiovisual materials: 239,221 </li>
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<p>GOTTA LOVE LIBRARIES!!! At least I get ecstatic...</p>

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<p>I'm interested in the exchange year at Oxbridge... any details/link?</p>

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<p>vivaldi87, LOL we posted ALMOST THE SAME THING simultaneously...:)</p>

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<p>ooo! what 5 fruits are they?</p>

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<li>The statue of Nathan Hale is really just a statue of the most distinguished-looking member of the Class of 1914. :p</li>
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<p>newt, they have that info on the Dean's Office Page under the Academic stuff or smg...if you will be unable to find it, I can give links</p>

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<p>WillowELN, they CHANGE EVERY DAY! YAY! ;)</p>

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<li>What other school can you go to where you can go to class in a room with Tiffany windows?
<a href="http://www.yale.edu/opa/imagegallery/campus/source/21.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yale.edu/opa/imagegallery/campus/source/21.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li>
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<li>They serve British scones for breakfast (yum). And they have an awesome selection of teas</li>
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<p>SCONES??!?! YAY! (I didn't know that - that makes me want to send in my deposit early :))</p>

<p>I'm an Anglophile, what can I say...</p>

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<p>What?! They change every day?! Ok, it's official, I'm going to Yale for the fruits.</p>

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<p>vivaldi87, ANGLOPHILES UNITE!!! Have been infected since childhoood...;))))</p>

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<li>Van Gogh and Warhol in the same building (the University Art Gallery) :p</li>
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