Bulletin of Yale University Periodicals Postage Paid New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8227 New Haven, Connecticut Yale.* Yale College 2020–2021 Yale Series 116, Number 1, June 1, 2020 1, June Series 116, Number admissions.yale.edu *A Guide to Yale College, 2020–2021 A Guide to Yale College This is Yale. We’re glad you asked. p. 80 | State of the Lives. Arts. From the digital to the classical, Yale’s p. 8 | First-Year spectacular arts options. Diaries. Yale’s newest students chronicle a p. 82 | The Daily week in the first year Show. A slice of Yale’s and give some advice. creative life during p. 92 | The Student one spring weekend. Voice. Student publi- cations and political life. p. 84 | The Science Channel. Life outside the lab. Apply. p. 12 | Anatomy of a p. 95 | The 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 stand-alone “colleges”). p. 86 | Shared p. 96 | Affordable. Studies. Places. Communities. For Everyone. Yale’s Cultural Houses, Our financial aid policy p. 30 | Blue Booking. p. 62 | religious communities, eliminates the need When parties and Inspired and a∞nity organiza- for loans and makes shopping are academic. by Icons. tions and centers. Yale a≠ordable for all. Plus: shopping lists, Why special programs, p. 46 | A Hands-On architecture p. 90 | Difference and some startling Education. Learning matters. Makers. Through numbers. by doing. Dwight Hall, students p. 70 | Cultural find their own paths p. 48 | Next-Gen Capital. 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 all the di≠erence. p. 72 | Here, There, Everywhere. 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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 Lives. tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends. Yale: A Short History, by George W. Pierson (Professor, Yale Department of History, 1936–73) Nishanth Krishnan Preorientation First-Year Programs Counselors The Hometown First-Year Diaries. Several optional First-Year Counselor San Diego, CA preorientation programs (FroCo) Program was (Starting out at Yale) Anticipated Major give new students a established in 1938 Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology chance to meet each and has been an 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 “From the outside, Yale’s academic, (CC) introduces first- since. Each first-year years to Yale’s cultural student is assigned able to dive into all that cultural, and social opportunities felt resources and explores a counselor who acts Yale has to offer. In part the diversity of student as a guide through this is because so many a bit overwhelming. But once I started experiences on campus, the transition to programs are in place with emphasis on the life at Yale. FroCos experiences of students are a diverse group specifically to welcome my first year, I found that my Yale of color and on issues of seniors who are and guide them— from related to racial identity. friends/mentors/ preorientation to first- experience is entirely in my hands.” problem-solvers— FOCUS on New Haven but not supervisors year counselors (Yale takes first-years on a or disciplinarians. seniors) to First-Year six-day exploration of All first-years except Seminars (small classes Classes samples bequeathed by the father the urban landscape those in Timothy taught by some of > Comprehensive University of neurosurgery—and former within and beyond the Dwight, Benjamin Chemistry I & II Yale campus. Franklin, Pauli Yale’s most prominent > General Chemistry Lab I & II Yalie—Harvey Cushing. Murray, and Silliman professors) to parties. > The Real World of Food First-Year Outdoor live together on We caught up with three > Introduction to Psychology On extracurriculars: One of Orientation Trips Old Campus during (FOOT) are six-day and their first year, and first-years near the end > Ancient Medicine and Disease the most memorable moments > Math Models in Biosciences I four-day back packing FroCos live among of their spring semesters. > Psychology and the Good Life from my first semester was the trips for all levels in them. (First-years Here they share advice; > Biochemistry and Biophysics extracurricular bazaar, where the mountains and are grouped in Old reflect on their own > Cell Biology and Membrane hundreds of student groups hills of Vermont, New Campus residences Physiology Hampshire, New by college affiliation, expectations; discuss introduce themselves to the first- York, Massachusetts, which allows all their summer plans; and and Connecticut, first-years no matter 2:15 I grab the shuttle to the med Activities year class. I decided I wanted to A Tuesday led by upper-level their college affilia- record a day in their 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 in the life of and the New Haven community, extensive training in each other.) research lab. > Yale Hunger and Homelessness 8:30 am Wake up and walk to Silliman Action Project but that doesn’t preclude me keeping FOOTies to grab a hot breakfast. I 3:00 At the New Haven Works > American Red Cross at Yale from joining a campus magazine safe and healthy in usually take eggs, potatoes, a O∞ce, I volunteer with No > Immunology research at the or an activism group if I pick up the backcountry. variety of fruit, and prodigious Closed Doors, working with Yale School of Medicine new interests over time. amounts of co≠ee. one or two unemployed Harvest begins at the New Haven residents to locate Yale Farm, and then 9:00 First class of the day, Math jobs online, call recruiters, On FroCos: I’m grateful that Yale On summer plans: In groups of first-years led by upper-level Models in Biosciences I. We build a résumé, and submit assigns every first-year a First-Year November, a friend invited me work on a lot of intriguing applications. The work has students head off to ways to apply math to biology; been transformative, and I Counselor (FroCo). FroCos can to an event at the medical school. spend five days on recently, we figured out the get to hear the incredible stories play any role—friend, confidant, At first, I felt out of place among family-owned organic safe dosage of a medication of locals. It motivates me to adviser! I think all my first-year all the graduate students. But I farms in Connecticut. using di≠erential equations to do my absolute best to help peers would agree that FroCos struck up a conversation with a predict its breakdown in the them and their families. Orientation for bloodstream. are invaluable, and they make the Yale professor and found out that International Students 5:00 Unwind over dinner with transition far less intimidating. years ago he was also a first-year (OIS) is a four-day 10:15 To Science Hill, where I finish friends. Sometimes we have a program designed to chemistry homework in the friendly debate over something in TD! We got to know each other ease the transition of CSSSI Library. one of us learned in class. On First-Year Seminars: I’m better, and I later interviewed international students taking Ancient Medicine and to join his lab this summer, where to the United States 11:25 Chemistry discussion section: 6:00 I take a co≠ee to go, set up Disease. We’re a tight-knit group, I’ll be working on cutting-edge by familiarizing thermodynamics, partial camp in the TD library, and 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≠. ing conversations on the medical studying a process that allows It is organized and 10:00 After a run in the TD gym, I led by international 1:00 pm 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. from Egypt, flipped through pathogens. I’m excited to apply Office of International enlightens us on the science of Students and Scholars. well-being. If you see cameras, 1:15 am Back to my room.