Yale University

Ah, New Haven
They used to call it the "Armpit of the Northeast", or, the center of the Rust Belt in same. But it's now very spiffed up -- though still a working class town (outside of Yale that is). Town & Gown...

Join a Group
My freshman year, I couldn't decide what groups to join. At every meal, the dining hall tables were bulging with tree-wasting flyers announcing auditions and events. This was for if you actually ha...

Art Collections at Yale
Where to start -- my favorites were the YUAG (Yale University Art Gallery) and the British Art Center (officially YCBA). I love art and painting was my unofficial "minor" (which Yale doesn't use). ...

Beautiful dorms
Branford was my residential college at Yale... it is the most beautiful -- that's my opinion as well as the general rep. It forms a big part of the flavor of my undergrad years. But I got to know a...

Cathedral of Sweat
It's...ginormous. I got lost in it more than once ... and stumbled upon rare and wonderful sights within its echo-ey inner reaches... and enjoyed some of them too. Not being on one of the vaunted s...

Check out the hockey rink if you're in New Haven
Being from the South, I was never really into hockey or ice skating. When I got to Yale, however, my apartment was down the street from Ingalls Rink. For a long time I wondered what the building wa...

Yale has a great gym
The Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale is pretty cool. When checking out the skyline of the old campus, you can’t miss it. It has a tower that looks like it belongs on a massive Gothic castle (however...

Yale papers the standard college fare
The two big student-staffed newspapers at Yale are the Yale Daily News and the Yale Herald. The Daily News is the better of the two and hence, a more competitive place to get a job. I’m not saying ...

Greeks at Yale not so flamboyant
Greek life at Yale is somewhat subterranean. Maybe it’s because the Greeks take a cue from the secret societies that pepper the campus, or maybe it’s because students are too busy studying. Whateve...

Intramurals at Yale
One of the things that sets Yale farthest apart from other colleges and universities is the residential college system, where students are randomly divided into one of twelve different "colleges" w...