Tuesday, April 21, 2009

First night of Bulldog Days

For those of you who unfortunately can't be here, a few photos and videos to help you live vicariously =)

Cupcakes at the welcome dessert...yum!

Host pick-up craziness in Commons

Konjo! workshop at the Af-Am house

Finally, my personal favorite: an all-bassoon version of Coldplay's song "Viva La Vida"

Friday, April 17, 2009

Spring at Yale

While the weather for next Mon-Weds is (unfortunately) looking semi-iffy for Bulldog Days, hopefully the following photos will give you a true sense of how gorgeous Yale can be in the springtime =)

Stroll right down this way...
(Branford to the left, JE to the right)

Daffodil fields outside Old Campus

A view of Vanderbilt from Chapel Street
(Branford and Berkeley freshmen live here)

Hanging out on Cross-Campus
(SML in the back, Berkeley north court to the right)

Blossoming cherry tree outside the music school

The white magnolia tree in Silliman

What I call the "Yellow Bush Road" =P
(Malone Engineering Center to the left)

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Yale Away from Yale

A lot of people have been asking about study abroad opportunities, so we thought we'd give you a chance to hear from some students who have actually gone abroad, either over the summer or during a semester. Click on the name to see their full blog.

Maureen Gaj
: A junior in JE who is one of the student housing coordinators here at the office, but this semester she's working remotely as she is studying in Wales and traveling throughout Europe in her free time =)

Shira Concool: I'm a junior in Pierson, majoring in African-American Studies. On campus I am a tour guide, an assistant at the President’s house, and a group leader for Community Health Educators. By the middle of sophomore Fall I figured I could use a little adventure so I decided to study abroad that spring. I went to Cape Coast, Ghana with the School for International Training (SIT) under the program name “The History and Cultures of the African Diaspora.”

Rishabh Khosla
: I'm a junior majoring in Political Science in Trumbull College, and an international student from Bombay, India. This past summer I received a grant from yale to travel to Iran and study Persian in Tehran for two months. In my spare time, I explored this fascinating city, and on weekends I would take trips to other cities to take in the historical and cultural sites.


For more information about Yale study-abroad programs in general, visit the Office of Fellowship Programs!

Monday, April 06, 2009

It is done.

Well, at least one of my senior essays is finished...now I can return all of these!

On to deal with two reading responses for tomorrow and my psych senior essay due in 13 days...

Friday, April 03, 2009

Netlibrary "hack"

So I'm working on my senior essay, and I need to look up a page number for a citation. I don't have the book with me, because I had previously used the online version from the Yale library database. While I'm waiting for a page to load, I notice the following line of code (I highlighted it with a red box - click for a larger version to pop up):


In case you can't read it, it says "HACK: Sometimes parent or parent.parent is inaccessible because we're trapped in somebody else's frameset."

Whaa...? Is this some poor programmer trapped in the Matrix? =P