Yale

I've finally made my way to Yale. (Erin will be happy, I'm sure. :)) I traveled to Yale mostly out of curiosity and not because I felt that I wanted to go there. If I'm going to spend my time touring the East Coast, why not visit that grand school along the way? The architecture was pretty awesome--it was intricate and very clever, to say the least. However, Yale had a way of making things seem ostentatious. Well, of course they're Yale, but I really didn't understand the point of weathering the buildings to make them look older. (More detail on that later.) And the tour guides did seem a little egotistic, and a little less serious than I thought they'd be. Which could be a good thing, but their presentations didn't wow me on capture me like the other schools I'd visited. There are some pretty cute guys at Yale though, not gonna lie.

Yale stats:
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Students: 11,276 (5,350 undergrad)
Acceptance Rate: 10%
Setting: Urban
Cost: $51,400 (forbes.com)


this is the view of Yale I had when I woke up in the morning.

the Yale bulldog. Sadly, this only reminds me of Bellevue College...



inside the exhibition library. the light coming through is sunlight through marble.

two of the remaining seven Gutenberg Bibles.

outside the library.

the other library. the architect poured acid down the front to blacken it and make it look older. he also left the alcoves where statues normally go empty to look like they had been pillaged.

maya lin's fountain representing the women on Yale's campus from the beginning to 1993




Bottom line: The curriculum and the overall atmosphere for Yale just wasn't a fit for me. New Haven can be kind of seedy, and I felt like at Yale I'd be trying too hard to keep up with a bunch of smart people that don't have to try.