Pretty Aweseome

Introduction
Yale is one of the most relaxed, cool places to go to school. It lets students do what it wants. There’s no sort of bureaucratic interference from administrators and that’s one thing I like about it a lot.

Campus Life and Social Life
Each student when they come is assigned to 1 of 12 basically dorms, every residential college has its own dining hall. Has its own facilities, it could be a movie theatre, it could be a weight room. They all have their own computer clusters, their own kitchens. They all have their own masters and deans and they have their own masters houses, where the masters host things called masters teas, which is when we have a famous guest of some sort come and have tea with students and basically talk about what interests them. The college system is good because it’s sort of like a mini school, within a greater university. Each college has about 400 people, 500 people, something like that. You tend to know the people in your college fairly well. So there’s always sort of a small group of friends that you can call up go out and do something with. Academics
Most of the time at Yale the classes are decently small. The average lecture probably has about 20-25 students. Big lectures like intro to American politics will have something like 80-100 probably. Intro to psychology will have 80-100. Generally the language classes are fairly small, sometimes you end up going to class at 8:30 in the morning which isn’t cool. I’d say overall the professors are very available, they like to teach undergraduates. There are some professors in dept.’s like math and science that are foreign and very well respected researchers and don’t know how to speak English very well. That’s a problem that people have sometimes when they come.

Student Body
It’s not as if we really stake everything on winning the Harvard vs. Yale game, to me it’s a bit more important as a social event and it is a bit of a matter of pride for the university because we can hang up a pin that says we beat Harvard whenever we do.

In Closing...
There’s very little discipline here at Yale for anything. I would just say in coming here, it’s a place that lets you be yourself. I think I learn here as much outside of the classroom as I do inside the classroom. That’s what sets Yale apart from other schools I think more than academic reputation and things like that, that people generally think about.