Nerdiness at Yale

clandarkfire
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 20:22:52 +0000

There’s definitely a culture of this in stem departments, especially math/physics/cs. One thing you might enjoy is global grounds, where ~30-50 students hang out from 10 to 2 on weekends to drink coffee, play boardgames, code, etc: http://chaplain.yale.edu/globalgrounds
(I notice that for some reason the website is run by the chaplain’s office, but it isn’t religiously affiliated.)

Also, the idea that Yale students mostly party on weekends is pretty foreign to me. I found that lots of people went to parties the first half of freshman fall when parties were a novel thing, but they lose their flair for a lot of people as they grow up. Also, this varies depending on course load, but in most semesters I definitely would not have been able to go out every night on weekends even if I’d wanted to – classes and research take a lot of time.