Be there: Tuesday Night, 11/17/2009 11:00 PM
Take the pledge, CFL exchange, learn how to defrost your fridge, unplug yo’ stuff before break. Get the facts, get some food, get green!
-Emmy “Charleston Chew” Arntson and Jeff “Mad Dawg” Perrella
Archive for Environmental Tip of The Week
GREENFEST!
by admin / October 18th 2009 / No Comment
Put on your HD Goggles, Saybrook, because it’s STEP time!
I wish to interrupt your dreary Sunday afternoon activities (mirando el MLS en español. Gracias a el hombre Max Goldman por la translacione terribile) with an important STEP announcement. This week will be possibly the most exciting week in the history of Yale. Why? Because it’s GREENFEST! Here come the deets (still street slang for details whether or not you or anyone else chooses to acknowledge it):
When: Friday October 23rd
Where: Old Campus
Why: To raise awareness about Sustainability at Yale. Most importantly, to raise awareness about the fact that we have risen above the safe upper limit of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, 350 ppm (learn more here).
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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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“Saybrugian” on Urban Dictionary!
by admin / July 4th 2009 / No Comment
Great news, Saybrook! The word Saybrugian has finally made it into Urban Dictionary!
Another reflection of Saybrook’s status as the best residential college, this entry gives incoming freshman a head start in learning the characteristics of Saybrugians already common knowledge to Yale upperclassmen. This entry should also serve as a handy guide for identifying Saybrugians at a moment’s glance.
Check out the Saybrugian entry for yourself.
Here’s the Urban Dictionary entry for your convenient reading:
1. Saybrugian
A person who is a member of the greatest residential college at Yale University – Saybrook College. A Saybrugian (said with a [soft] g) is at once classified as attractive, intelligent, and fun.
Maya Lin was a Saybrugian, while Rory Gilmore was a Branfordian.