Diamond- Portuguese had around 20 kids (from frosh to grad students and beyond), Spanish had around 15 kids, English had 12ish
small classes=great discussions
From New Haven New York is about 1.5 hours by train; the trains run very frequently, and a round trip ticket is only $30. How often people go really varies. We really don't have any long-weekends built into the schedule, so it can get difficult to spend a day (or two) in New York then be able to get all your work done for Monday, but people do it. I went 3 times over the semester, and I would have had time to go more had I wanted to. I don't really know anyone who goes on a weekly basis, but if you really wanted to there isn't really anything preventing you.
Boston is closer to 3 hours away, trains run somewhat less frequently, and tickets are about $65. People definitely go there much less frequently, and I don't know anyone who has gone unless they were visiting a boyfriend or something like that. Again, that doesn't mean that you couldn't if you wanted to.
Diamond- My classes this semester ranged from 8 - 40 people this semester. Popular intro classes (chem, psych, cog sci, etc) will be big lectures with anywhere from 100-400 people, but in general I think classes tend to be on the smaller side.
" Portuguese had around 20 kids (from frosh to grad students and beyond), Spanish had around 15 kids, English had 12ish
small classes=great discussions"
Were these portugese, spanish, and english classes intro courses, discussion sections, advanced seminars or what?
All language classes and I think all 100- and 200- level English classes have a cap of like 15 students, so they are just small classes taught by professors.
Bigger non-science lecture classes may or may not have mandatory discussion sections led by TA's.
