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Contents 1 Course Pages 2 Organizations and Clubs 3 Guides 3.1 Moving to Yale and New Haven 3.2 30 Cool Things That Happen at Yale and Few Other Places (if any) 4 Collaborate 5 Campus 6 Town 7 Food and Drink 7.1 Restaurants That Deliver 7.2 Vegetarian 8 Residential Colleges & Housing 9 Content Produced by Yale People 9.1 Books 9.2 Blogs 9.3 Podcasts 9.4 Music 9.5 Art 9.6 Film/Video 9.7 Academic Papers 10 Tips and Advice for 10.1 Frosh 10.2 Seniors 10.3 Graduate and Professional Students 10.4 Jr. Faculty 10.5 Staff 10.6 Alumni 11 Best Of 12 Worst Of 13 Alumni 14 History

[edit] Course Pages

Yale course pages are usually set up through a special server, Classesv2. Many professors have webpages that are up to date on their course offerings.

Addtionally, Yale is continuing to add courses to its open yale courses online. Find it here.

[edit] Organizations and Clubs

As might be expected from a university of Yale's size, history and prestige, there are hundreds upon hundreds of student organizations, from the Yale Daily News and other traditional clubs to the Anti-Gravity Society and Yale Parkour.

List of all registered undergraduate organizations

Yale Dramat

Yale Daily News

Dwight Hall at Yale Yale Entrepreneurial Society

Yale Entrepreneurial Society

Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES)

Whiffenpoofs

[edit] Guides

[edit] Moving to Yale and New Haven

• Be sure to register your car with Connecticut license plates if you want to get off-street parking on zoned streets.
• If you're looking for off-campus housing, the best resources are Craigslistand Yale Off-Campus Housing

[edit] 30 Cool Things That Happen at Yale and Few Other Places (if any)

1. Casino Night- Hosted by Ezra Stiles and Morse College it was rated by Rolling Stones magazine as one of the top college parties of year.  During this night Yale undergrads don their tuxedos and suits and enjoy their own student run casino. In 2008, a CT intended to keep more casinos from opening in the state forced Yale to cancel Casino Night and replace it with the similarly themed but gambing-less Elite.
2. Naked Parties-
3. Masters Teas -
4. Go to Harvard/Yale- While it is possible to also do this at Harvard, why would you want to? A rivarly steeped in tradition, The Game will be in New Haven in 2009.
5. Toasting at Mory's- Mory's is the famous Yale eating club on York Street. Traditionally, student organizations hold occasional toasting. Toasting involves passing around a trophy cup filled with any variety of beverages and roasting the hell out of whoever has the cup.
6. Take Cold War- Taught by John Gaddis, Cold War is one of the  most popular classes at Yale.
7. YSO Halloween Show- Though by the time it starts at midnight, most of the audience will be too drunk to care, the Halloween Show is not to be missed.
8. Get Screwed- The Freshman class and each residential college has a "screw" every year, where suitemates set each other up on blind dates and devise clever and often embarssing ways for the pair to meet up.
9. Play frisbee on Old Campus- All freshman and annexed upperclassmen live on Old Campus which is the original quadrangle of Yale in New Haven.
10. Pull a Commons all-dayer- Once classes end, or perhaps even earlier, swipe into Commons for breakfast and sit there and work all day. All day.
11. Swipe at the Law School- Make sure to figure out the ever-unclear double swiping rules. The next game is to get as close to $7 (the cost of a lunch swipe) without going over.
12. Safety Dance
13. Tap Night- Quintessential Yale. Juniors are tapped by senior secret societies and are lead around town blindfolded or costumed. Or both. Bring a camera.
14. IM Innertube Waterpolo
15. See awesome people get honorary degrees- Last year, Paul McCartney got one.
16. Sleep in the stacks
17. Heckel at Fall Show
18. Get no work done during Spring Fling
19. Make sketchy book exchanges
20. Sleep in the Stacks
21. Rock Shopping Period
22. A cappella Jams/singing deserts
23. TOADS!
24. Eat in Berkeley Dining Hall
25. College Days
26. Yale/Princeton
27. Write a column/ op-ed
28. Cheer with the Dawg Pound/YPMB
29. Take a college seminar
30. Stuff your face at the Buttery

[edit] Collaborate

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[edit] Campus

Theater - Yale has a large and impressive range of theater as does the Greater New Haven area.

• Yale Rep
• The University Theater
• Off-Broadway Theater
• Other on-campus theater spaces
• Shubert Theater

Museums

• Peabody Museum
• Yale University Art Gallery
• Gallery for British Art

Religious Life - Religious Life for undergrads is largely coordinated by the Chaplain's Office, located on the Old Campus in the basement of Bingham hall. The Chaplain's office sponsors study breaks, interfaith days of service, and serves as homebase for student religious organization.

• St. Thomas More-
• Slifka Center

Lost & Found

[edit] Town

Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut the city that invented the pizza and hamburger in America.

News

• Info New Haven - website directory to New Haven Restaurants and nightlife
• New Haven Independent - local online newspaper
• New Haven Register- local old school paper

Parking

There are a number of garages that sell spots to Yale students. Street parking is available but somewhat limited. Many of the smaller Yale lots are free for student use late nights and on the weekends.

Haircuts, Barbers and Salons

Transportation

• Metro-North
• CT Transit
• Yale Shuttle
• ZipCar

Supermarkets and Food Shops

• Shaw's
• Gourmet Heaven and Gourmet Heaven II
• Durfee's

Laundry and Dry Cleaning

Most Yale students either do their laundry in the facilites in their residential college or through the provided laundry service, E & R. The laundry machines in the colleges are going green by using automatic soap dispensers. Students pay for washes using their ID cards.

[edit] Food and Drink

Takeout menus

[edit] Restaurants That Deliver

Almost all restaurants in New Haven deliver. Notable exceptions are Yorkside, the popular pizza place on York Street and Thai Taste, one of the popular Thai restaurants in town. Many restaurants also subscribe to campusfood.com, a site that lets students browse menus and order online.

[edit] Vegetarian

• Claire's Corner Copia - Famous for its cakes, Claire's also vegetarian and vegan meals.
• Thali Too- The vegetarian spinoff of Thali, Thali Too prepares great indian food at reasonable prices and is located right next to the Bookstore.
  
  

[edit] Residential Colleges & Housing

Residential Colleges

Branford

Berkeley

Calhoun

Davenport

Timothy Dwight 

Jonathan Edwards

Morse

Pierson

Saybrook

Silliman

Ezra Stiles

Best for Parties - For every Residential college, there is usually a historic party suite.

Best Views - 

Biggest - 

Smallest - Bingham C52

Best for Quiet Study

[edit] Content Produced by Yale People

[edit] Books

[edit] Blogs

• Yale Music Scence - student group blog about music at Yale
• The Sam Jackson College Experience- blog by Yale 2011 Trumbull student.
  
• Ivy Sneakers- blog by Yale student about life at Yale
• College Conservatism- College Conservatism comprises three undergraduates at Yale dedicated to lending credibility to the conservative voice on college campuses across the United States.
  
• Philosphia - blog by Yale student, Josh Pan about life at Yale
• Timothy Dwight: The Unofficial Blog of the Greatest College at Yale - blog by Dee Jae Yan about life in Timothy Dwight college
  
• Reuxbn - blog by guy who creates drawings and illustrations for Yale publications such as Yale Daily News, Yale Herald, etc.
  
• The Lanman Project - blog by Yale student filmaker, Max Lanman
  
• Andrew Sullivan - conservative Yale grad Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog at The Atlantic
• Anna's Out of Town - blog by Yale student Anna Ershova about being an international student at Yale
  
• Ferentz Lafargue - Yale grad and now assistant professor's blog associated with his book "Songs in the Key of My Life."
• The Book Publicity Blog- Yale '98 grad, Yen, shares news, trips, miscellany for book publicists
• Obesity Blog - weblog of the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, aims to encourage global discussion of the most critical issues regarding food policy and obesity
  
• Jews, Muslims, and Dialogue- an online project of Jews and Muslims (JAM) at Yale, an organization dedicated to sustained dialogue and raising awareness of Judaism, Islam, and the myriad of issues facing Jews and Muslims today.
  
• The Yale Record- America's oldest College Humor Magazine
• The Yale Globalist- The Yale Globalist Blog is the online home of the Globalist community. Check back often for news updates and commentary exclusively from the Globalist's staff and friends.
  
• Balkinization -an unanticipated consequence of Jack M. Balkin.  The legal blog, founded by Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment Jack Balkin, has enjoyed tremendous success since it entered the blogosphere on January 13, 2003, racking up more than 3 million visitors and 4.5 million page views.
  
• Vestal Design - cool design blog by Yalies who started a design company.  Props to Diego Rotalde in Peru ;-)
  
• The Hippolytic - named after Hippolyte Havel, a turn-of-the-century New York anarchist, playwright, waiter, and journalist. Combining a passion for progressive causes and activism with a keen awareness of the intersections between arts and politics, he embodies much of the cosmopolitan, democratic values that drive the publication. And while the terms and circumstances of debate may have changed a hundred years later, Hippolyte remains a guide for campus progressives – ever rebellious, ever critical.
  

[edit] Podcasts

[edit] Music

[edit] Art

[edit] Film/Video

[edit] Academic Papers

[edit] Tips and Advice for

[edit] Frosh

• Don't Blow off the the freshmen holiday dinner.
• Don't ask for a dean's excuse your freshmene year if you can help it; you may need it more in future years.
• Be sure to eat in all 12 residential colleges at least once.
• Don't miss the midnight Halloween Yale Symphony Orchestra peformance; yes, it's what cool nerdy Yalies do.

[edit] Seniors

[edit] Graduate and Professional Students

[edit] Jr. Faculty

[edit] Staff

[edit] Alumni

[edit] Best Of

Best Study Spots

• Carrells in the Bass Library
• Sterling Memorial Library Reading Rooms
• The Law Library
  

Best First Date Places

• Criterion Cinema- independent and artsy theater

Best Out of the Way Date Places

• Istanbul - Turkish restaurant on Crown Street (hiding in plain view)
• Thali- upscale Indian Restaurant in Ninth Square

Best Student Jobs

• Library jobs are always a safe better and plenty in number
• Especially if you want to go to grad school, Yale has got some of the best labs and professors to work with, even as a undergrad.

Best Sleeping/Napping on Campus
Best CAs
Best Bathrooms
Best Places to Park Downtown

• Lake Place behind the gym
• Yale staff parking lots after 4:30 p.m.

[edit] Worst Of

Bathrooms

• Woolsey Hall & Commons

[edit] Alumni

Yale Class Websites

Yale Clubs

[edit] History

Yale’s roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World. This vision was fulfilled in 1701, when the charter was granted for a school “wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences [and] through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.” In 1718 the school was renamed “Yale College” in gratitude to the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale, who had donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods together with 417 books and a portrait of King George I.

Yale College survived the American Revolutionary War (1776–1781) intact and, by the end of its first hundred years, had grown rapidly. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought the establishment of the graduate and professional schools that would make Yale a true university. The Yale School of Medicine was chartered in 1810, followed by the Divinity School in 1822, the Law School in 1824, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1847 (which, in 1861, awarded the first Ph.D. in the United States), followed by the schools of Art in 1869, Music in 1894, Forestry & Environmental Studies in 1900, Nursing in 1923, Drama in 1955, Architecture in 1972, and Management in 1974.

International students have made their way to Yale since the 1830s, when the first Latin American student enrolled. The first Chinese citizen to earn a degree at a Western college or university came to Yale in 1850. Today, international students make up nearly 9 percent of the undergraduate student body, and 16 percent of all students at the University. Yale’s distinguished faculty includes many who have been trained or educated abroad and many whose fields of research have a global emphasis; and international studies and exchanges play an increasingly important role in the Yale College curriculum. The University began admitting women students at the graduate level in 1869, and as undergraduates in 1969.

Yale College was transformed, beginning in the early 1930s, by the establishment of residential colleges. Taking medieval English universities such as Oxford and Cambridge as its model, this distinctive system divides the undergraduate population into twelve separate communities of approximately 450 members each, thereby enabling Yale to offer its students both the intimacy of a small college environment and the vast resources of a major research university. Each college surrounds a courtyard and occupies up to a full city block, providing a congenial community where residents live, eat, socialize, and pursue a variety of academic and extracurricular activities. Each college has a master and dean, as well as a number of resident faculty members known as fellows, and each has its own dining hall, library, seminar rooms, recreation lounges, and other facilities.

Today, Yale has matured into one of the world’s great universities. Its 11,000 students come from all fifty American states and from 108 countries. The 3,200-member faculty is a richly diverse group of men and women who are leaders in their respective fields. The central campus now covers 310 acres (125 hectares) stretching from the School of Nursing in downtown New Haven to tree-shaded residential neighborhoods around the Divinity School. Yale’s 260 buildings include contributions from distinguished architects of every period in its history. Styles range from New England Colonial to High Victorian Gothic, from Moorish Revival to contemporary. Yale’s buildings, towers, lawns, courtyards, walkways, gates, and arches comprise what one architecture critic has called “the most beautiful urban campus in America.” The University also maintains over 600 acres (243 hectares) of athletic fields and natural preserves just a short bus ride from the center of town.