<p>Any recommendations on what spots to visit that aren't seen on the tour itself? Maybe the S&B Masouleum perhaps ;)?</p>
<p>The inside of the Beinecke Rare Book Library...especially if it's a sunny day.</p>
<p>The Peabody natural history museum is pretty good, especially if you like dinosaurs and such.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.peabody.yale.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.peabody.yale.edu/</a></p>
<p>Just use good sense about where you roam after dark.</p>
<p>gourmet heaven. sandwich #2.</p>
<p>Pepe's for pizza!</p>
<p>Everything. But especially the Popeye's Chicken walk up window.
And, since you want to the the Bones tomb, I challenge you to find the Berelius tomb, I couldn't.</p>
<p>I'm sure there will be tours of campus, so go on one of those if you can. Also, rub the guy's foot on Old Campus. It got me in :).</p>
<p>I actually just got back. I rubbed the toe of the President, too, so we'll see where that gets me!</p>
<p>While I knew I'd love the school itself, I was surprised by how much I enjoed the area of New Haven immediately surrounding campus. It was just nice and homely and looked quite relaxed (of course, classes are out of session, but still). Oh and the residential colleges were far more impressive than at Princeton, I found.</p>
<p>ive heard that students pee and do other disgusting things on that foot, which is more responsible for the way it looks than the rubbing. i also rubbed the foot though at one point and it got me in (before i knew about this). just make sure to wash your hands after.</p>
<p>and to the above poster - it's not the president's foot and "homely", as far as i know, is not a compliment.</p>
<p>What I meant was "I felt at home," and if I used the wrong word, well, 'my bad.'</p>
<p>And our tour guide claims the toe was sculpted from gold in the first place?</p>
<p>keep in mind that, as with princeton's tour, yale's tour showcases only the nicest residential colleges, and not, for example, morse and stiles.</p>
<p>Beinecke and Peabody are two of my favorite haunts. You have to have lunch or dinner on Wooster Street. I don't know if the Amistad is docked there right now (it usually tours during the summer), but check it out if you can.</p>
<p>As with every city in Connecticut, don't judge it by what you see from the highways.</p>
<p>webster.com: homely - characteristic or suggestive of a home</p>
<p>Be careful. I hear that New Haven is really dangerous.</p>
<p>I'm local and spend a ton of time there. It's not. There's a difference between hearing and knowing.</p>
<p>But yes, be careful in any new location, or even familiar ones for that matter.</p>
<p>Also, my tour guide specifically stated that the "toe" is of a former President of the University, who used this whole tapping his toe thing to give the crew team luck and have them win, and when they asked him to come to every game that season they went undefeated and became national champions. Either he's lying, or idk what...</p>
<p>And I didn't get the impression that Yale or it's surrounding areas were unsafe at any moment in the tour. Sure, I'm sure just like Harvard and UPenn it's not the safest city to walk around alone at 3:00 AM, but it seems that as long as you're semi-intelligent and can handle yourself, you'll be perfectly fine.</p>
<p>Yep. When we visisted our hotel room was just outside the "bubble: and there were people outside at all hours of the night. Seriously, I'd wake up from someone yelling at like 2:00 in the morning. Also, I thought "homely" meant ugly. Learn something new everyday.</p>
<p>"Homely" can mean one of four things, two of which are not complimentary:</p>
<p>1 : suggestive or characteristic of a home
2 : being something familiar with which one is at home <satisfy themselves="" with="" houses,="" furniture,="" books="" and="" clothes="" that="" were="" worn="" homely="" friendly="" to="" the="" touch="" --="" brendan="" gill="">
3 a : unaffectedly natural : SIMPLE b : not elaborate or complex <homely virtues="">
4 : plain or unattractive in appearance</homely></satisfy></p>
<p>(RC0813 was using sense 1.)</p>
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<blockquote> <p>ive heard that students pee and do other disgusting things on that foot, which is more responsible for the way it looks than the rubbing.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>It's the same story with John Harvard's foot at Harvard. Best not to touch that one either.</p>