<p>On the matter of safety, I obviously prefer my years on the farm, where we don’t even know where the keys to lock our door are. But that being said, I don’t think I’ve ever felt unsafe on campus, and I can’t say that I think New Haven is any more dangerous than any other city (actually, I perceive it as less so, at least in the areas students frequent).</p>
<p>What don’t I like? I’m not a huge fan of my college, Morse, and I dislike the “family nights” that the dining halls have started having on Sundays, requiring you to eat only in your own college. If you are a math/science major, you probably won’t like getting up to Science Hill. There are also a couple of academic nitpicks: there aren’t enough good courses that offer a writing skill credit, and too many of the intro English courses (which you are supposed to take before taking upper level english classes) strike me as unrelated to either english, writing, or anything that I consider a coherent thought. These phenomenon are observations and heresay, not things I’ve experienced, since I was lucky enough to do DS.</p>
<p>Depending on your tastes, there might be other things: we don’t have a Big Ten style athletic scene, and the fields are far away if you are interested in playing or watching, so that’s kind of difficult. Some supplies like groceries and clothing are very expensive in the area around campus (not much competition and too many rich people who think nothing of shopping at fancy places).</p>
<p>I come from the inland where it is very cold in the winter and very hot in the summer, and I’ve always enjoyed that climate. It seems like New Haven weather during the school year is rarely satisfactorily cold in the late fall and winter, though it’s not near being warm, and then by the time it is certifiably nice outside in the spring, it’s nearly time to go home for the summer. For those brief periods when it IS hot outside, your dorms don’t have any AC. Also, when it rains in New Haven, it usually lasts for 12-48 hours straight, which can lead to dreariness as well as wetness. This was very strange and somewhat depressing to me, as I am used to showers lasting a few hours at most.</p>
<p>Oh, and though it won’t effect my time, I very much dislike the fact that we are building two more residential colleges. The location is out of the way, and Yale doesn’t need expanding.</p>
<p>So, overall, I have very, very little to complain about, and I actually had to rack my brain pretty hard to come up with even these mostly petty complaints.</p>