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Yale College Viewbook 2019–2020 Bulletin of Yale University Periodicals Postage Paid New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8227 New Haven, Connecticut Yale.* Yale College 2019–2020 Yale Series 115, Number 2, June 1, 2019 Series 115, 2, June Number admissions.yale.edu *A Guide to Yale College, 2019–2020 A Guide to Yale College This is Yale. We’re glad you asked. State of the p. 80 | Arts. From the digital Lives. to the classical, Yale’s First-Year p. 8 | spectacular arts options. Diaries. Yale’s newest The Daily students chronicle a p. 82 | Show. week in the first year A slice of Yale’s The Student and give some advice. creative life during p. 92 | Voice. one spring weekend. Student publi- cations and political life. The Science p. 84 | Channel. Life outside the lab. Apply. Anatomy of a The p. 12 | p. 95 | Residential College. Particulars. Delving into the How to apply, what layers of Yale’s unique we look for, and residential college visiting campus. system (14 gorgeous Shared Affordable. stand-alone “colleges”). p. 86 | p. 96 | Communities. For Everyone. Studies. Places. Yale’s Cultural Houses, Our financial aid policy Blue Booking. p. 30 | p. 62 | religious communities, eliminates the need Inspired When parties and and a∞nity organiza- for loans and makes by Icons. shopping are academic. tions and centers. Yale a≠ordable for all. Plus: shopping lists, Why A Hands-On Difference special programs, p. 46 | architecture p. 90 | Education. Makers. and some startling Learning matters. Through numbers. by doing. Dwight Hall, students Cultural p. 70 | find their own paths Next-Gen Capital. p. 48 | The modern to service and leader- Knowledge. For univer sity, the cosmo- ship in New Haven. Yalies, one-of-a-kind politan college town. resources make Here, There, all the di≠erence. p. 72 | Everywhere. Fourteen Yalies, where College p. 36 | they’re from, and Meets University. where they’ve been. An undergraduate road Bright Think Yale. p. 22 | map to the intersection p. 52 | College Years. Think World. of Yale College and Five In many ways, friend- the University’s gradu- Elis share their pivotal ship defines the ate and professional moments abroad. Pursuits. Bulldog! Yale experience. One schools. p. 76 | Connect the Bulldog! Bow, student sums it up: p. 56 | Eavesdrop- Dots. Wow, Wow! “It’s about the people, p. 38 | From start-up ping on Professors. not the prestige.” capital and internships Playing for Yale— Why being an amazing to top fellowships and The Game, the mission, Breaking p. 26 | place to teach makes a worldwide network of the teams, the fans, News. A few of Yale an amazing place alumni, Yale positions and, of course, the year’s top under- to learn. graduates for success in Handsome Dan. graduate stories. the real world. 4 5 Yale is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends. Lives. Yale: A Short History, by George W. Pierson (Professor, Yale Department of History, 1936–73) Nishanth Krishnan Preorientation First-Year Programs Counselors The Hometown Several optional First-Year Counselor CA San Diego, preorientation programs (FroCo) Program was First-Year Diaries. Anticipated Major give new students a established in 1938 chance to meet each and has been an (Starting out at Yale) Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology other prior to the formal intrinsic and essential First-Year Orientation. component of Yale’s advising system From the moment they Cultural Connections for first-years ever arrive, first-years are (CC) introduces first- since. Each first-year years to Yale’s cultural student is assigned able to dive into all that “From the outside, Yale’s academic, resources and explores a counselor who acts Yale has to offer. In part cultural, and social opportunities felt the diversity of student as a guide through this is because so many experiences on campus, the transition to programs are in place with emphasis on the life at Yale. FroCos a bit overwhelming. But once I started experiences of students are a diverse group specifically to welcome of color and on issues of seniors who are and guide them— from my first year, I found that my Yale related to racial identity. friends/mentors/ preorientation to first- problem-solvers— FOCUS on New Haven but not supervisors year counselors (Yale experience is entirely in my hands.” takes first-years on a or disciplinarians. seniors) to First-Year six-day exploration of All first-years except Seminars (small classes Classes the urban landscape those in Timothy samples bequeathed by the father within and beyond the Dwight, Benjamin taught by some of > Comprehensive University of neurosurgery—and former Yale campus. Franklin, Pauli Yale’s most prominent Chemistry I & II Yalie—Harvey Cushing. Murray, and Silliman professors) to parties. > General Chemistry Lab I & II First-Year Outdoor live together on > The Real World of Food Orientation Trips Old Campus during We caught up with three > Introduction to Psychology On extracurriculars: One of (FOOT) are six-day and their first year, and first-years near the end > Ancient Medicine and Disease the most memorable moments four-day backpacking FroCos live among of their spring semesters. > Math Models in Biosciences I trips for all levels in them. (First-years > Psychology and the Good Life from my first semester was the Here they share advice; the mountains and are grouped in Old > Biochemistry and Biophysics extracurricular bazaar, where hills of Vermont, New Campus residences reflect on their own > Cell Biology and Membrane hundreds of student groups Hampshire, New by college affiliation, expectations; discuss Physiology introduce themselves to the first- York, Massachusetts, which allows all their summer plans; and and Connecticut, first-years no matter 2:15 Activities year class. I decided I wanted to record a day in their I grab the shuttle to the med led by upper-level their college affilia- A Tuesday school campus to monitor my > No Closed Doors be more involved in volunteering students who have tion to get to know lives during the first year. cell cultures in an immunology > Yale Farm extensive training in each other.) in the life of > Yale Hunger and Homelessness and the New Haven community, 8:30 am research lab. keeping FOOTies Wake up and walk to Silliman Action Project but that doesn’t preclude me 3:00 safe and healthy in to grab a hot breakfast. I At the New Haven Works > American Red Cross at Yale from joining a campus magazine the backcountry. usually take eggs, potatoes, a O∞ce, I volunteer with No > Immunology research at the or an activism group if I pick up variety of fruit, and prodigious Closed Doors, working with Yale School of Medicine new interests over time. Harvest begins at the amounts of co≠ee. one or two unemployed Yale Farm, and then 9:00 New Haven residents to locate groups of first-years First class of the day, Math On FroCos: On summer plans: jobs online, call recruiters, I’m grateful that Yale In led by upper-level Models in Biosciences I. We build a résumé, and submit students head off to work on a lot of intriguing assigns every first-year a First-Year November, a friend invited me applications. The work has spend five days on ways to apply math to biology; Counselor (FroCo). FroCos can to an event at the medical school. been transformative, and I family-owned organic recently, we figured out the get to hear the incredible stories play any role—friend, confidant, At first, I felt out of place among farms in Connecticut. safe dosage of a medication of locals. It motivates me to adviser! I think all my first-year all the graduate students. But I using di≠erential equations to do my absolute best to help Orientation for predict its breakdown in the peers would agree that FroCos struck up a conversation with a them and their families. International Students bloodstream. 5:00 are invaluable, and they make the Yale professor and found out that (OIS) is a four-day Unwind over dinner with 10:15 transition far less intimidating. years ago he was also a first-year program designed to To Science Hill, where I finish friends. Sometimes we have a ease the transition of chemistry homework in the friendly debate over something in TD! We got to know each other CSSSI On First-Year Seminars: international students Library. one of us learned in class. I’m better, and I later interviewed to the United States 11:25 6:00 taking Ancient Medicine and to join his lab this summer, where Chemistry discussion section: I take a co≠ee to go, set up by familiarizing thermodynamics, partial camp in the TD library, and Disease. We’re a tight-knit group, I’ll be working on cutting-edge them with academic pressures, melting points— start my homework. which allows for personal, engag- immunology research. I’m and social life at Yale. all that good stu≠. It is organized and 10:00 ing conversations on the medical studying a process that allows led by international 1:00 pm After a run in the TD gym, I I join nearly 1,200 students in shower and head to the buttery philosophy of antiquity. We’ve immune cells to produce diverse upper-level students Psychology and the Good Life, to replenish before going back explored surgical manuscripts antibodies to fight di≠erent with support from the where Professor Laurie Santos to the library. Office of International enlightens us on the science of from Egypt, flipped through pathogens. I’m excited to apply 1:15 am Students and Scholars. well-being. If you see cameras, Back to my room.
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