<p>Dropped our daughter off for FOOT today. Was struck yet again by the beauty of the campus and the apparent happiness of everyone we saw. </p>
<p>D decided to take care of her PO box while we were there. The line was slow and long. I don’t know if they have more staff for Friday & Saturday, but it seemed to be a time-eater (multiple waits on two different lines). Postal staff was very nice and helpful, though.</p>
<p>Looking forward to returning for move in on Friday. Thank you all so much for your help with details and info.</p>
<p>FOOT is a great time. My son did the 4 day Vermont trip last year and formed some great friendships during that time. The only bad part is we ended up having to put his room together for him. Boy did he have it easy. ;)</p>
<p>Storage opens tom am so DH is going to help with that.
K1’s Roommate conveniently left early back in the spring and K1 had to move the boxes and futon. Now the Roommate doesn’t arrive til Friday–by then the boxes and futon will be in the suite.</p>
<p>K1 has a tenative idea about fall term course though shopping period will prove helpful. </p>
<p>Good luck to all of the freshman parents this week.
It really does go much more smoothly than you could imagine.</p>
<p>MidniteMom, I’m sure they are having a great time - with less time to think about us than we have to think about them. Kdog, I’m glad your son enjoyed the trip last year and made good friends. Too bad you had to do all the work on the room. Did he have a roommate? If so, did you have to take your son’s place, so to speak, in communicating about how the room would be set up? (Which bed to take, etc)</p>
<p>Fogfog, sounds like your K’s roommate is lucky! Thanks for the encouraging words.</p>
<p>For any new parents (like me) out there wondering about mailing addresses for UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc, at our visit to the Yale Post Office yesterday I learned that the kids can fill out a form that will enable all mail and packages, including UPS and FedEx in addition to US Mail, to be delivered to the post office.</p>
<p>To cover all those bases, mail would be addressed to:
Student name
206 Elm Street #123456 [your student’s box # goes here, but don’t put the words “PO BOX” or even “Box” before the # sign]
New Haven, CT 06511</p>
<p>All shippers should accept this address, even those that don’t ship to PO boxes, since there is a street address (the address of the Post Office, actually) and the box # would show up much the way an apartment # would on a street address.</p>
<p>What form is this? Is it something they do online at USPS?</p>
<p>By the way–for new parents–the Zone boxes with USPS are a cheaper way to send a Small care package from time to time…
You need to go online and set up a USPS acct, and have the boxes sent to your house or office–the local post office won’t carry them (at least ours won’t)
You can even pay the postage and print the tag at home and arrange pick up ( when they deliver your mail)</p>
<p>fogfog, thanks for the tip about the Zone boxes. That’s great.</p>
<p>I’m sorry to say that I don’t know what the name of the form was. The gentleman working at the Yale post office suggested it to my daughter when she got her PO box. She had signed up for the box online, but went there to get the key and activate it, etc. It was one of the little pinkish-yellow square forms that they seem to have for everything. The postal guy filled out part, had her sign, and told us how to address things so that its would work. Maybe call the Yale PO to ask?</p>
No, my son was one of four that had a single (the suite had one double) so I didn’t need to worry about bed selection or closet space. The great thing is they all got along so well they decided to room together again in another six person suite (3 doubles). This year he gets to do all the work as we are not even driving up. :D</p>
<p>**Meeske said students will need to register parties under the name of a “host,” who assumes responsibility for the attendees. **The host will submit a form to the Dean’s Office, he added, and the Dean’s Office will then pass the party information to the Yale Police Department to observe the area.</p>
<p>If an alcohol-related incident occurs at a registered party, Meeske said, the host would “very possibly” be subject to an Executive Committee hearing. By registering, the host comes forward as legally responsible, he said, adding that the policy was passed “largely” to address underage drinking.</p>
<p>“Students are now required to register off-campus parties attended by more than 50 people with the Yale College Dean’s Office”
But all hell can rain down if only 49 individuals are present?
I absolutely appreciate the concern and attempts at addressing an issue that is as old as… well at least as old as you and I (a concerned parent) but I question the impact of the 50+ rule.
Will they be required to do a head count throughout the party and file the form if the threshold is unexpectedly passed?
I hope and pray that the students have a healthy and happy time at Yale and survive life’s lessons that coincide with these years.</p>
<p>I think this policy is designed to rein in fraternities (and fraternity-like groups with houses, like the Baker’s Dozen)–they are prime sites for big parties and underage drinking. It’s legal in the sense that Yale can set its own disciplinary policy for students.</p>
<p>As for how it’s going to be enforced, it will be interesting to see. The idea that one individual will have to sign to be responsible is pretty daunting.</p>
<p>Is it advisable/possible to park somewhere and pick up the dorm room key first, then check out the room before bringing the car around to unload? A little worried that we have overpacked and some items may be making the trip home. (There is no common room in this particular suite for overflow.)</p>
<p>Many thanks to all the parents on this thread for the extremely helpful info that has made this transition less daunting!</p>
<p>The parking for move in is clear across campus, and the streets around old campus are marked with cones for traffic to flow in, unload onto the sidewalks and flow out. You might want to look at public parking garages and pay to park a few blocks away.</p>
<p>The other option–reduce what you are bringing now. no one needs 4 seasons of clothes the first weeks and no one needs all of the dorm “essentials” that BB& B sells…
read “the rooms are small” and storage is at a premium…
however the dorms are sooo nice compared to the cinder block “cells” we lived in many moons ago…</p>
<p>On the question of parties etc…
this policy is trying to enforce rules on private property…??? And what student is going to know the evnt will draw more than 49 attendees???</p>
<p>and frankly it feels like an attempt for the school to absolve itself of responsibility in the event something happens to a student…I smell a “lawyer” here…</p>
<p>If a Yale student gets married, must she register her reception with the Dean if she invites more than 49 guests? What would the point of that be?</p>
<p>Yale can set disciplinary rules for its students; it’s a private university. If it requires its students to register off-campus parties, it can legally do that. Nobody is required to be a Yale student. If you choose to be one, you have to obey the rules (within some limits, of course). I don’t question Yale’s authority to set such a rule; I do question it’s ability to enforce it, though.</p>
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The point would be to deter her from serving alcohol to underage guests. That’s what this is really all about.</p>
<p>You can definitely do this. There is a metered parking lot right by the bookstore and usually you can get a spot there. What we did was to send our son in to get the key while we parked the car. IF you get to that parking lot very early, I believe there is still an early bird all day special.</p>
<p>When the time comes for move in, you’ll see a coat of arms posted on a stand and a whole bunch of eager kids from your kid’s residential college who will have their stuff moved in practically before you can get the key out of the ignition.</p>
<p>My son discovered the hard way that the P.O. drops a student’s post office box if they study abroad. (In fact, the packet of information for his study abroad program was returned to sender). When he tried to set up the box on an interim basis before leaving at the end of last term, he didn’t get anywhere.<br>
He’s on his way back, and I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this–will it work to restore his old P.O. Box number on the website? Or must he add standing on line for hours in the P.O. next week to his to do list?</p>
