45th Reunion Survey SurveyMonkey Q12 What do you remember most fondly about your Yale years? (Check all that apply) Answered: 258 Skipped: 22 Dining hall conversations Other (please specify) Playing intramural... Yale Precision Marching Band Bladderball Falling asleep in Cross Campus Playing varsity sports Rudy's 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES Dining hall conversations 72.09% 186 Other (please specify) 51.16% 132 Playing intramural sports 23.64% 61 Yale Precision Marching Band 19.77% 51 Bladderball 18.99% 49 Falling asleep in Cross Campus 13.18% 34 Playing varsity sports 11.63% 30 Rudy's 8.91% 23 Total Respondents: 258 # OTHER (PLEASE SPECIFY) DATE 1 Intellectual challenge 5/27/2019 10:51 PM 2 The campus, the wide range of free activities, especially classical music. One of the reasons I 5/27/2019 7:12 PM chose Yale over Princeton was that comparing the daily papers showed Yale had many many more things to do on campus: concerts, plays, lectures.... St. Anthony Hall. 3 roommates 5/27/2019 11:34 AM 1 / 5 45th Reunion Survey SurveyMonkey 4 Dramat 5/26/2019 11:43 PM 5 Freshman entryway 5/26/2019 3:58 PM 6 Friends, opportunity for service and to mature, to become more self-aware, still full of dreams for 5/26/2019 8:51 AM myself and others 7 Bullshitting in dorms. Being a geek. My wonderful friends. 5/25/2019 8:37 PM 8 Frisbee football 5/25/2019 7:24 PM 9 WYBC 5/25/2019 3:53 PM 10 Singing 5/24/2019 11:54 PM 11 working as many hours as possible in a variety of jobs with fellow "Bursary" students; the depth 5/24/2019 10:53 PM and breadth of talent and knowledge (music, drama, arts, academic) among Yale undergraduates 12 Directed Studies 5/24/2019 10:24 PM 13 Hallowe'en at Kingman Brewster's 5/24/2019 10:15 PM 14 Falling asleep in L&B Room at Sterling 5/24/2019 10:10 PM 15 Conversations with people very different from me, and St. Anthony Hall. 5/24/2019 10:07 PM 16 plays and movies all the time and everywhere! 5/24/2019 7:50 PM 17 meeting some incredibly smart and interesting people 5/24/2019 7:45 PM 18 Nights in the Sterling Stacks 5/24/2019 7:08 PM 19 Learning - exploring new ideas 5/24/2019 7:07 PM 20 Yale Symphony 5/24/2019 6:53 PM 21 YUGC, music & synchronized swimming 5/24/2019 6:43 PM 22 Berzelius 5/24/2019 5:45 PM 23 Singing 5/24/2019 5:16 PM 24 Yale Dramat 5/23/2019 4:21 PM 25 Davenport Library 5/13/2019 12:53 PM 26 Bull sessions 5/8/2019 4:55 PM 27 Singing in various groups: Battell Chapel Choir, Bach Society, trip to France... 5/8/2019 4:06 PM 28 roof excursions 5/7/2019 5:20 PM 29 The libraries 5/7/2019 11:20 AM 30 Friendships, fabulous architecture, East and West Rock, New Haven hamburgers and pizza and 5/7/2019 12:23 AM Balentine Ale 31 No fond memories, unfortunately. 5/6/2019 8:18 PM 32 Friendships 5/6/2019 5:27 PM 33 intense interpersonal relationships 5/6/2019 4:46 PM 34 Getting stoned 5/6/2019 8:56 AM 35 Late evening Bull Sessions; Outside speakers 5/5/2019 12:01 PM 36 late night post-study gatherings in the suite's living-room 5/5/2019 6:27 AM 37 Yale symphony 5/4/2019 8:57 PM 38 Moving off campus 5/4/2019 8:31 PM 39 Outstanding professors 5/4/2019 6:34 PM 40 The L&B reading room at Sterling 5/4/2019 5:53 PM 41 beautiful campus and hanging out at different libraries 5/4/2019 5:21 PM 2 / 5 45th Reunion Survey SurveyMonkey 42 Having Professors of a certain age begin class with, "Gentlemen," and then apologizing profusely; 5/4/2019 4:53 PM not being admitted to Mory's; organ concerts and practice recitals at Dwight Hall, Battell, Woolsey, Marquand; Harkness Tower carrilon; Yale Art Gallery and bridge across High Street to Street Hall; the Moore "Seated Woman" outside the Kahn Art Building; the statue of Nathan Hale on Old Campus: "Altar Piece" above Main Desk; Main Reading Room, L&B, Courtyard and wandering the Stacks at Sterling; "Historical Records Room," recordings of Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Beinecke's African-American Collection; Willie Ruff; Robert Thompson; Tea at the Lizzy; Calvin Hill Day Care Center; the Wisteria in bloom at Davenport College; anything in bloom, daffofils, etc. after the winters in New Haven. 43 singing 5/4/2019 3:43 PM 44 Friday nights at St. A's 5/4/2019 2:47 PM 45 College seminar classes 5/4/2019 1:54 PM 46 Concerts and playing music 5/4/2019 1:44 PM 47 Talking with friends 5/4/2019 1:39 PM 48 sitting in a leather chair in L+B 5/4/2019 1:35 PM 49 BSAY 5/4/2019 1:26 PM 50 Theatre; producing music concerts 5/1/2019 8:49 PM 51 Cheerleading and DKE 4/30/2019 8:42 PM 52 Occasional road trips to get out of New Haven 4/27/2019 5:15 PM 53 playing in Yale Symphony 4/27/2019 4:01 PM 54 The Elizabethan Club 4/27/2019 2:32 PM 55 Classes and interesting people 4/27/2019 2:31 PM 56 Classical Music concerts at Sprague Hall 4/27/2019 2:16 PM 57 sterling library 4/26/2019 6:24 PM 58 Classes! 4/26/2019 9:30 AM 59 Volunteering in the U.S. Grant Foundation Program 4/23/2019 10:27 PM 60 St. Anthony Hall 4/23/2019 11:28 AM 61 the company of intellectual curious women 4/23/2019 10:50 AM 62 A capella singing 4/23/2019 3:14 AM 63 All night conversations 4/22/2019 5:21 PM 64 Late night bullshitting (with intoxicants) 4/22/2019 2:53 PM 65 Yale Daily News 4/22/2019 11:32 AM 66 two or three relationships that defined the experience 4/22/2019 11:06 AM 67 roommates 4/22/2019 12:47 AM 68 Playing frisbee in Old Campus 4/21/2019 9:46 PM 69 Singing 4/21/2019 9:24 PM 70 Sailing 4/21/2019 6:23 PM 71 Organizing the Nehemiah Blues and Folk Society 4/21/2019 2:21 PM 72 Residential College Theatre 4/21/2019 9:06 AM 73 great courses 4/20/2019 9:15 PM 74 WYBC 4/20/2019 5:09 PM 75 Playing music! 4/20/2019 1:03 PM 76 Not much 4/20/2019 12:55 PM 77 sterling stacks 4/20/2019 10:30 AM 3 / 5 45th Reunion Survey SurveyMonkey 78 Hours in Dunham Lab with the PDP-10 4/20/2019 9:46 AM 79 My friends 4/20/2019 9:17 AM 80 Christian Fellowship group 4/20/2019 7:59 AM 81 Hanging out in the college. 4/20/2019 6:47 AM 82 The classes! 4/20/2019 2:03 AM 83 Freshman Football 4/20/2019 1:56 AM 84 Late night outings for donuts 4/19/2019 11:36 PM 85 Pinball; Commons 4/19/2019 10:37 PM 86 The sense of community that the residential college system created. 4/19/2019 9:46 PM 87 Riding my motorcyle. 4/19/2019 9:06 PM 88 Conversations with room-mates 4/19/2019 9:03 PM 89 Yale Football Games. Bull sessions with friends and roommates. Good food in the dining hall. 4/19/2019 8:56 PM 90 Walking around the campus and looking at the architecture. 4/19/2019 7:20 PM 91 Yale Symphony Orchestra 4/19/2019 6:53 PM 92 Q 4/19/2019 6:49 PM 93 theater 4/19/2019 6:12 PM 94 campus ministry; choral singing 4/19/2019 5:49 PM 95 OK to enjoy acual classes? 4/19/2019 4:56 PM 96 Yale Scientific Magazine; The Yale Record 4/19/2019 4:44 PM 97 interactions with top professors (kramnick, savage, schrader, wallich, triffin, Levine); 4/19/2019 4:41 PM 98 Great friends. 4/19/2019 4:07 PM 99 being the only guy visiting in a room with eight women, and realizing that with the 8/1 ratio, there 4/19/2019 4:06 PM should have been 63 other guys there. 100 Glee Club 4/19/2019 4:00 PM 101 Escaping my small home town in Maine 4/19/2019 3:46 PM 102 Great professors 4/19/2019 3:45 PM 103 A capella and glee club groups 4/19/2019 3:21 PM 104 History classes 4/19/2019 3:04 PM 105 African American Cultural Center and the Black Church at Yale 4/19/2019 3:04 PM 106 Working in the A/V dept. 4/19/2019 2:58 PM 107 Music, particularly a cappella singing 4/19/2019 2:47 PM 108 Architecture 4/19/2019 2:36 PM 109 TD 4/19/2019 2:31 PM 110 When my friends lived above Rudy's! 4/19/2019 2:25 PM 111 Going to see films with friends 4/19/2019 2:21 PM 112 Falling Asleep in L&B, Watching the Snow come down from the 11th floor windows of the Sterling 4/19/2019 2:20 PM Stacks, December & Summer on the Yale Campus., Louis Lunch 113 dramat 4/19/2019 2:15 PM 114 Having a Yale girlfriend; and playing late-night bridge 4/19/2019 2:12 PM 115 A Cappella group 4/19/2019 2:05 PM 116 Singing in various Yale groups 4/19/2019 1:47 PM 4 / 5 45th Reunion Survey SurveyMonkey 117 Studying high in the stacks of Sterling 4/19/2019 1:38 PM 118 I was never fully at ease at Yale; I don't think I have 'fond' memories of '[my] Yale years' 4/19/2019 1:34 PM 119 Playing bridge at night after studying 4/19/2019 1:29 PM 120 Yale Daily; theatre on campus 4/19/2019 1:02 PM 121 frisbee football, pizza, fireplaces in our rooms, the Long Wharf, piano in the Common Room 4/19/2019 1:00 PM 122 Being in the Baker’s Dozen 4/19/2019 12:55 PM 123 Singing Group Community 4/19/2019 12:54 PM 124 playing music with friends 4/19/2019 12:51 PM 125 The JE Buttery; late night conversations in the dorm 4/19/2019 12:46 PM 126 English and history seminars, the main reading room at Sterling, bicycling around campus, Naples 4/19/2019 12:43 PM and George and Harry’s, Morse senior dinners with Vincent Scully, Cleanth Brooks and Faulkner/poetry, every moment with my future wife.