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. [...]
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Attention: A Realistic Depiction of Life at Yale
by tedly / August 26th 2009 / No Comment
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
by tedly / August 25th 2009 / No Comment
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
by tedly / August 24th 2009 / No Comment
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 [...]
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