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Archive for August, 2009

Leah Rajaratnam ’12: You Should Take Directed Studies If…

A Very Cynical Look at Directed Suicide 1. …you love having hundreds of pages of reading to do each week, most of which you will probably never do and will certainly never understand. The Directed Studies curriculum is designed to give you a basic overview of the humanities: everything from Plato and Aristotle to T. [...]

Attention: A Realistic Depiction of Life at Yale

So the video was released earlier this month, but take a couple of minutes out of your frantic packing (or unpacking) to enjoy the latest installment of “College Musical” from Kurt Schneider CC’10 (starring Yale students and featuring some of your favorite Yale locations such as Lanman Wright Hall itself). To start from the beginning [...]

The Case for Directed Studies: Maggie Cooper ’12

Hello, Saybrugians! N.B. In order to avoid redundancy, I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this blog entry, you have some idea of what Directed Studies is: a by-application-only freshman program in the humanities that involves reading selections from the Western canon and writing one six-page paper nearly every week. If you are still [...]

Dilemmas of a One-Dimensional Student: Fulfilling Distributional Requirements

You’ve seen the list: two each of WR, QR, Hu(dak?), So and Sc, plus the Language Requirement. Unless the academic gods have endowed you with the knowledge base of a walking Wikipedia and the supple versatility of Nastia Liukin, at least one of these requirements probably gives you a light dusting of cold sweat. Please [...]

Getting mail at Yale

Hola Saybrook Freshmen! So here is a short post about how the mailing system works at Yale. You basically get your mail in 4 places, depending on your carrier (I know this sounds ridiculous): 1) UPS– Your mail will go to Hendrie Hall on Elm Street. There is a UPS station in the basement there, [...]

Saybrook Blog Assassins

Greetings Saybrook! As many of you may know, it has become an annual tradition to hold a Saybrook Assassins game. Every year, Saybrugians get pretty involved, with some doing whatever it takes to win. It’s a great way to meet your fellow Saybrugians and it’s always a lot of fun. Typically, there are three ways [...]

How to Navigate Freshmen Year at Yale

Welcome to the Saybrook Blog’s guide on How to Navigate Freshman Year at Yale. On the page below you’ll find a series of freshmen advice articles written to help Saybrook freshmen through their first year at Yale. Finding WLH on a map and figuring out what classes fitness to shop when there are hundreds to [...]

What to Expect from Introductory Science Classes at Yale

Hello again Saybrook Freshmen! This post is principally for all the pre-meds, prospective science majors, and prospective engineering majors out there, though people looking to satisfy their science distributional requirements may also find it useful. I list the most common science courses that Freshmen take, and give my opinions on them. I have not taken [...]

Why J-L Mosley ’12 is a Better Dancer Than You

Check out the Youtube video that earned J-L Mosley ’12 a prize-winning 13th place in the Heatwave Global Dance Competition! Incoming search terms:mosley dancerplastic surgery pittsburgh

Drew Ruben ‘11 Featured in the Huffington Post

Some of us go to the beach in the summer.  Some of us read books magazine.  And some of us write articles for The Huffington Post, as Drew Ruben ’11 did this past week. Check out his article at Seven Tenets of the Socially Conscious Business!

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