Hey Saybrook! As you may have heard, every Yalie will be required to fill out a Census form during the first week in April. Each completed Census form will bring $9,000 to New Haven over the next ten years in the form of grants to AIDS treatment, homeless shelters, food stamps, school lunches, vocational training.
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Master Hudaks daughter Jen Hudak wins gold at 2010 X-Games
by admin / February 2nd 2010 / No Comment
Today Master Hudaks daughter Jen Hudak won the gold medal in the Womens Superpipe at the 2010 X-Games in Aspen for her amazing performance last night. With this win Jen ended defending three-time gold medalist Sarah Burkes dynasty in the Womens Superpipe to secure her first gold medal at the X-Games and add to her already impressive collection of bronzes and silvers.
This video shows her gold-medal-winning run in which according to Free Skier Magazine Ms. Hudak
took her 900 alley oop 540 540 and 720 to the judge s domes tonight.
Congrats Jen!
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Meet your new SAC chairs, Casey Blue and Calah
by taratyrrel / January 15th 2010 / No Comment
Congrats to Casey Blue James and Calah Singleton for being elected SAC chairs this week! Will they be able to fill Kate and Cameron’s rather large shoes? Only time will tell, but rumor has it Alli Bauer ’12 has volunteered to help them out by sharing equal SAC responsibility, just without the official title (she was nominated for the position as well, but withdrew her name from the running).
Saybrook Assassins Highlights
by admin / November 12th 2009 / No Comment
Day 1 of Saybrook Assassins was an absolute bloodbath, with 27 Saybrugians dying at the hands of their fellow Saybrugians.
Here’s some of the highlights:
Rick Caraballo ’13 was killed right before taking his Chem midterm. His last recorded words: “I didn’t know you were in the class.”
Shunori Ramanathan ’13 was rudely awakened by a loud knocking at her suite door. She opened the door. Big mistake.
The Daybrook’s Saybrook Travel Photography Exhibition: Part 1
by admin / October 14th 2009 / No Comment
Earlier in the semester, Erica Cooper SY ’11, Marissa Grunes SY ’10, and Patrick Lee SY ’11 put together a wonderful exhibit of photos from Saybrugians’ travels this summer on behalf of the Daybook. In case you missed it, here’s some of the amazing pictures our fellow Saybrugians took over the summer.
Here’s James Ford’s SY ’11 photos from his escapades through Singapore, Tokyo, and Kyoto:
The City of Singapore ("Lion City" in Malay) seen by night from the Esplanade across the bay at the heart of the city.
Zebras drinking water in the famous Singapore zoo, often hailed as the best in the world.
One of Toyko's beautiful city gardens, taken on a special setting to bring out more of the greens.
Kinkaku-ji, the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto. It was originally built in 1397, and was used as a Zen temple of the Rinzai school. The building has been burnt down twice throughout history with the current structure being built in 1955. The whole exterior of the temple is guilt in gold leaf.
Chapter 2: Getting Involved—Extracurriculars at Yale
by admin / September 29th 2009 / No Comment
Dear Saybrook Freshmen,
As promised in one of my earlier posts, here is my scoop on getting involved in extracurriculars at Yale. Since my freshman year, I have tried to be involved in as many diverse and random activities as possible. I have given tours, practiced with the Club Table Tennis Team, played the cow-bell with the YPMB (Yale Precision Marching Band), called admitted students for the admissions office, and coordinated the activities of the Yale Scientific Magazine and the Yale Undergraduate Society for Biological Sciences. Here, however, I will talk about three ventures that I have started at Yale, namely a diabetes forum, a carrom club, and a classic rock society.
But first, a bit about starting a registered organization on campus; even though Yale has 800+ organizations, there can be things that you want to do that do not exist on campus. This has a simple conceptual solution (though a harder practical one): start your own student organization. Yale is truly great in that it gives you the liberty to do whatever you want (as long as it is constructive). The application for registration can be found on the student affairs website (the link is posted in my 21 websites post). Now, I talk briefly about the above mentioned three organizations:
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21 Websites Every Yalie Should Know
by admin / September 3rd 2009 / No Comment
Hello Freshmen!
Here are some useful websites to check out to get the most out of Yale. Not all of these are well known on campus (which is why Saybrook advising rocks), but you should always have these in the back of your mind as your tool box. I am giving a short description of what each website does, and am also writing shortcuts that you can type into the address bar to get to the website, wherever applicable
1) http://yalestation.yale.edu/
Shortcut: yalestation.org
Description: Portal to sell or buy books from fellow students, check the weather, look up event posters, advertise organizations, look for furniture, check out restaurants
2) https://yalestudentjobs.org/
Description: Website to apply for jobs, and log into time-sheets for jobs under Yale employees.
3) http://www.yale.edu/sfas/
Description: Umbrella website for offices in 246 Church Street: Dining, ID Center, Financial Aid, Registrar, Associated Student Agencies, Student employment.
4) http://www.yale.edu/sis/
Description: Website containing your vital personal information: meal plans, academic course schedule, financial aid and Yale account statements, OCS (the tool to make your course worksheet), unofficial transcript
5) http://students.yale.edu/oci/search.jsp
Shortcut: yale.edu/oci
Description: OCI stands for Online Course Information (read: all that good stuff in the Blue Book is now online)
6) http://yale.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BNCBHomePage?storeId=16556&catalogId=10001&langId=-1
Shortcut: yale.bncollege.com
Description: Website for the Yale bookstore. Buy and sell books, Yale apparel here.
7) http://www.yale.edu/directory/
Shortcut: yale.edu/directory
Description: Look up basic information (such as residence, local phone number, P O Box, and email) of all Yale affiliated people
8 ) yale.edu/facebook
Description: Most useful for looking up pictures of people you are about to meet. It also tells you their majors, and hometowns (may be useful, depending on why you want to look up someone 
).
9) https://www.mail.yale.edu/login.php?Horde=db3535bad3e19e353e6eeaf567d4f1ab
Shortcut: www.mail.yale.edu
Description: Online email client
10) http://www.yale.edu/its/stc/
Description: Information about IT resources at Yale
11) http://www.yale.edu/oiss/
Description: Website for the International Center at Yale. International students should be familiar with the resources available through this site.
12) http://orbis.library.yale.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First
Shortcut: orbis.library.yale.edu
Description: Website for checking and placing holds on books in the Yale libraries, ordering books if they are not in the library system
13) http://www.yale.edu/transportationoptions/shuttle/
Shortcut: yale.edu/shuttle
Description: Online system to track Yale shuttle routes real-time, know bus schedules
14) panlists.yale.edu
Description: Manage your panlists/ email lists
15) http://business.yale.edu/map/
Shortcut: yale.edu/campusmap
Description: Interactive campus map, search for buildings on campus by their names
16) http://www.yale.edu/campusmail/
Description: All information about receiving and sending paper mail on Campus
17) https://portal.yale.edu/render.userLayoutRootNode.uP
Shortcut: portal.yale.edu
Description: Summary of a lot of websites including student affairs, sis, yalestation. Great to glance once in a while to make sure that you are not missing anything.
18) http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/student_affairs/
Description: Register student organizations here (I will be writing a post on how to do this soon)
19) http://www.yalebulldogs.com/information/facilities/payne_whitney_gym/membership/index
Description: Check out timings for Payne Whitney Gym.
20)http://www.yale.edu/career/
Shortcut: yale.edu/career
Description: Undergraduate Career Services Website. Check out resources for pre-med, pre-law, community service, internships at Yale.
21) http://saybrookblog.com/
Description: Uhm…makes the number of Yale websites to a blackjack 21
Feel free to comment!
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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 of the series, go here. Sadly, once on campus, I can’t promise song and dance at every opportunity, but I can promise that some of your interactions will be this awkward. Sweet.