<p>casino night :-)</p>
<p>... as for when it is, according to the calendar on the morse website, it's scheduled for Nov. 5 this year, and I think it was about the same last year...</p>
<p>there are also things like the Winter Ball (if you go) and some other formals too (is JE's spider ball really formal? I don't know, I'm not in JE and I didn't go last year); I think that most of them are in the November to Febuary range, but I wouldn't swear to that...</p>
<p>The Spider Ball is formal and it's the right before reading week (spring semester), I think, or before finals, basically, late in the year.</p>
<p>i think spider ball is pretty kick ass and my only advice would be to make sure you just take ONE date (antimatter knows what i mean). the college screws can be as formal or informal as you want and aside from that, yeah casino night is pretty fun. oh, and if you dont know the screws are cute little dances thrown by each college where you set up your suitemates or friends with anonymous dates.</p>
<p>sewcurious: im not on fin. aid, so i cant help you with that. it was a pretty big story when they announced the details of the new aid package this spring. i forget the specifics but im sure its all over the web.</p>
<p>I will be living on Old Campus..is it necessary to bring a printer?</p>
<p>How difficult is it to transfer in? What advice would you offer to that extent?</p>
<p>And in what respects is Yale good for protecting human rights (programs, internships, professors, clubs, etc.)?</p>
<p>Should I bring quarters for laundry on Old Campus or is there some type of card system?</p>
<p>You can just put money on your ID card (you'll get it once you get to Yale) in the laundry room, you can't use quarters.</p>
<p>I suggest you bring a printer unless you don't take any classes that require papers (which I can't imagine) or you have a roommate with a printer. It's a pain going to Conn Hall to print your stuff, esp. if you are like me - I finish my papers two minutes before the deadline. And you have to pay to print and I never figurred out how to do it.</p>
<p>nala: what antimatter said. definitely bring a printer.</p>
<p>apathetic: im really not sure about transfers, what the politics is behind all that. seems like it would be pretty hard, same for any elite school, i would assume. wish i could offer you some advice but i dont really know any transfers or anyone involved in that process. sorry.
as for "protecting human rights", im not really sure what you mean by that. i personally have never felt like my "human rights" have been violated by anything at yale, and im sure my friends would agree...occasionally ive heard things about yale doing business with groups whose track record is less than stellar, or whose politics are not as leftist as some at yale would like...but i dont really know much about it. its not a heartless corporate entity, if thats what you mean. of course money and labor and whatever else is a factor, but its a school, not wal mart.</p>
<p>Prefontaine, your post about sciences at Yale seems out of touch. "Antiquated equipment?" Yale receives more federal scientific research funding than almost any other university in the country ($251 million in 2001, versus just $79 million at your favorite school, Princeton, or $58 million at Brown - and even UC-Berkeley, more than four times Yale's size, had $208 million). This is astounding, and a very good sign for undergrads, given that it has a much smaller enrollment than most large research universities.</p>
<p>Here's my opinion on the sciences at Yale, a post in response to someone who was legitimately asking about them:</p>
<p>LOL antiquated equipment my ass, that's just the most retarded statement I've ever heard. Moreover, if u don't call 500 million dollars for a biomedical engineering research facility flinging money for research, then u are seriously mistaken and need a reality check.</p>
<p>he's just a troll. It takes only a little bit of common sense to know that a very top school would not have "antiquated" equipment.</p>
<p>if i may add my two cents to this discussion:
i LOVE the bio program at yale. i cant imagine a better balance of challenging material, professors who are at once at the top of their fields AND able to teach pretty damn well, and personal fulfillment knowing that there is a good chance ill be able to pursue pretty much any area of biology study once i graduate. i know that bio isnt really one of the "sciences" in question here, but thats what i have to say about it.
as for engineering and the physical sciences, i dont know that much about them, especially in comparison to other top schools. i do think that a person who wants to pursue engineering professionally will NOT be at a disadvantage in the least if they come to yale for undergraduate school. engineering and other hard sciences are fields that require years upon years of training and skill-honing, much/most of which occurs in graduate school. in my opinion, yale is unique and unparalleled in the academic world, regardless of what you study or where your interests lie. so i guess thats what i have to say--hopefully the trolls will stay away. booyah.</p>
<p>I need to open a bank account at school and I am not sure which Bank to go to. I would like to use the ATM at school but would like not to pay a fee..does any bank have their own ATM at school? Is there a bank very close to Old Campus?</p>
<p>i meant programs for citizens pushed to the margin.. domestic abuse, UN human rigths work, "Save the world" type stuff.</p>
<p>Lol totally misconstrued what I meant, sorry I was unclear.</p>
<p>The most convenient bank in that area is going to be Bank of America. They bought Fleet, Bank Boston and a number of other banks so it's also the best bank if you ever travel to other cities or towns in the area.</p>
<p>As far as human rights goes, I know that Yale was named the #1 activist school in America by Mother Jones Magazine, so I'm sure there are a number of campaigns underway. Also, the Yale Law School, the most prestigious law school in the world, has lots of resources in that area and is located adjacent to all of the undergraduate dorms. I believe there is an Ethics and Politics major (or something like that) that combines faculty from the Law School into a special undergraduate program. This major would definitely contain a lot of courses related to human rights.</p>
<p>There are <em>plenty</em> of student programs that focus on alleviating the problems faced by underserved minorities, etc. One such organization (and here starts the advertisement...) is the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project. A large (but not comprehensive) list of student organizations focusing on service is available at Dwight Hall's website (dwighthall.org).</p>
<p>There is also Journal of Human Rights, you can write for it (if fact, you SHOULD), and we do other human rights related things.</p>
<p>As far as hard core sciences - I'm a Chemsitry major and the department is awesome! No matter what your major is, you ARE getting a YALE education.</p>
<p>Speaking of Chemistry, Yale has the strongest department in the country according to ISI/Sciencewatch (the world's most respected scientific information group):</p>
<p>Runners-up for 2nd, 3rd and 4th place are Caltech, Harvard and MIT.</p>
<p>can you hang things on teh walls? if somethng were framed would you be able to put it up?</p>