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Living at Yale is all about being part of a very tight community.
Freshman are randomly sorted into residential colleges before they
arrive on campus. During freshman year, they are housed together with
other frosh from their own college, to which they move starting from
their sophomore year. The vast majority of Yalies live on campus and
love it. I won't lie: the rooms, especially some freshman rooms, can
be rather small. One of my suitemates and I made fun of our frosh
rooms and called them torpedo chambers because they were long and
narrow, with the width actually smaller than the height. Then, again,
they were singles! And they did just fine for a place where we studied
and slept. The rest of the time was spent in our large common room.
In general, housing at Yale is fairly varied, but you will find that
your happiness is not directly related to the size of your bedroom.
Each residential college has its charm and students tend to develop
fierce loyalty for their college and a strong sense of belonging to a
smaller community within the school.
Finally, a few words about New Haven. Yes, it has a bad reputation and
sure, there are some parts of town where you won't want to be alone
late at night. But what city doesn't have those? The area around
campus is _very_ safe. The Yale Police are awesome - you can almost
always see one biking along the walkways wherever you happen to be on
campus, and there is always a security phone - we call them blue
phones - within sight. And while New Haven may not be the most
happening town in terms of clubbing and bar hopping, it does have an
amazing selection of very good restaurants close to campus. Pick any
cuisine you like: New Haven has it and you can bet the restaurant will
be close to Yale. Summers in New Haven can be a little dull but during
the semester, there is always a ton of stuff to do around campus.
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