<p>Hey Yale Students,</p>
<p>I've heard many good things about Yale (obviously), but I was hoping you guys could give me more of an "inside scoop."</p>
<p>What were some things that, upon attending Yale, that you did not notice before? </p>
<p>Or perhaps, what attracted to you in the college in the first place, and was it what you expected?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I visited Yale this summer, and of course, the college is just great, which you already know.
I did not like the city of New Haven at all as it looked like a rather poor town (compared to the posh surroundings of Princeton). I even happened to be the witness of the arrest of a person by the police in the street near the Marriott hotel. Quite scary !</p>
<p>^ Go to Princeton then. You’d be unhappy at Yale. (or any real town outside of suburbia) </p>
<p>It’s amazing. I’m glad I decided to attend. I have 15 person seminar classes with some of the best professors in the field, the architecture is just amazing, the food is excellent, and the students are brilliant.</p>
<p>^ do you ever get homesick?</p>
<p>Not really. I know other kids that miss home, but no one I know is absolutely devastated that they left. Things are just too great here. It’s much more than high school. The people you’re with, you see in class, dinner, 3AM inebriated haze, and on weekends. There’s a great bond.</p>
<p>are people chill and nice?</p>
<p>Gryffon, I assume you got accepted to other top schools as well; Could you guide us through the process of finally choosing to attend Yale?</p>
<p>bumpitybump</p>
<p>Okay, I’m just going to briefly stick down my thoughts about Yale here, in what will probably be an incomprehensible form:</p>
<p>I. LOVE. IT. HERE. I’ve never been to such an inspiring place in my life… The professors are [obviously] amazing–I’m taking an 18-person seminar with Cold War historian John Gaddis…and I wrote about him in a history paper my senior year. Weird. All of my classes are super interesting–and I’m in three seminars all with between 12 and 18 people in them…Last year, in high school, my smallest class was 27 people. :0</p>
<p>The students here are also amazingly inspiring. I was on Harvest (a pre-orientation program) before school started, and I was out in the field harvesting beets while talking to one of my classmates. Over the course of the conversation, I learned that he had published a children’s book. What? My suitemate is taking Linear Algebra, Advanced Physics, and Freshmen Organic Chemistry (which is more difficult than the regular orgo…)… It’s absolutely mind-blowing. </p>
<p>Shopping period is amazing (you’ll never have a professor you don’t like!), the residential colleges are wonderful (Yale builds all of these wonderful communities into its student bodies to encourage finding a friends within just a few days)… The party scene is however crazy you want it to be. I have one suitemate who just joined a frat and stumbles around in a drunken haze as he party-hops and goes to Toad’s, and another suitemate who doesn’t drink, joins us at all of the school functions (dances, etc.), and hangs out with friends/watches movies on the weekend. It’s a HUGE range, and everyone’s totally comfortable with whatever you’re ready for.</p>
<p>I’m doing an a cappella group, and that has also been so much fun. Lots of concerts, lots of events, FREE tours all around the world (?!?), huge network of friends…yay!</p>
<p>Old Campus is gorgeous in the fall…I love walking out of my dorm and looking around at all of the Yalies scurrying to and fro…going to get the Yale Daily News and the (free) New York Times as I eat breakfast in Commons…having coffee at Blue State Coffee as I finish up my English paper…hearing a fantastic lecture about the psychology of religion from an expert in the field…watching some crazy Japanese movie whose title I can’t pronounce with friends from Harvest…late-night Durfee’s runs for chips and salsa so I can be ready for Top Chef…Spizzwinks(?) rehearsal (that’s the a cappella group I’m in)…reading War & Peace in Sterling Memorial Library…seeing Justice Sotomayor speak in Woolsey (she was here last weekend)…</p>
<p>Seriously, if you get in, come to Yale. You’ll love it.</p>
<p>Yes, I realize that post is utterly incomprehensible, but if you’re confused about anything just ask me.</p>
<p>I’m off to finish my french homework. Good night, pre-frosh!</p>