<p>^ Yeah, that might be what I’m thinking about!</p>
<p>white clam pizza. i have a second generation Eli eating that now. he used to screw up his nose at me when i would recollect it, now…</p>
<p>Lisa Kay
Yale '79
Yale Law '82</p>
<p>Mom of an Eli</p>
<p>Would that be on the street where the Admissions office is, where tours begin? I think that is on Hillhouse.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience with buying personal property insurance from HF & C?</p>
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<p>aw, it’s not silly, that’s such a cute idea =]
there’s one on trumbull st. in front of the parking lot, which is right around the corner of the admissions office on hillhouse
here it is, courtesy of the ever-helpful google street view
[88</a> trumbull st, new haven - Google Maps](<a href=“Google Maps”>Google Maps)</p>
<p>^Yupp, that’s the one I meant. Thanks mangoho. I obviously need to learn my Yale geography.</p>
<p>Thank you Mangoho - that looks perfect! and thanks for saying it’s not a silly idea :)</p>
<p>Oh, you’ll see parents doing all sorts of embarrassing things during movein weekend. My husband couldn’t make the trip, and hadn’t been on the Yale campus at all, let alone visit the residence hall or old campus. I “made” my daughter get on Skype with him and carry her laptop around her room and even point it out the window so he could see what she sees every day. He loved it, and her roommates thought it was very amusing.</p>
<p>I am thinking about buying a Euro lounger for my daughter’s common room and let her suite mates purchase other items for the common room. The lounger can be mail ordered and delivered. My question is: can the lounger be stored in her residential college over the summer. Since we live in Florida, it is not an option for us to bring it home over the summer.</p>
<p>Found my answer elsewhere. One couch can be stored per suite.</p>
<p>For the fashion clueless among us: just what constitutes “proper attire” (per the Opening Days Schedule of Events) for the Freshman Assembly?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Someone who has more recently been to the Freshman Assembly will give you more accurate information, but here’s how it used to work. Most men in blazers and ties (people didn’t do the jacket and button down shirt with no tie thing in my day, but I suspect you’d see a lot more of this look now). Most women in a nice (think going to a nice but not really fancy restaurant) skirt/dress/pants. Many parents followed this script, but there were also people in shorts and flip-flops (or as they were then known, thongs!).</p>
<p>Refrigerator question: </p>
<p>Have any of you rented refrigerators through the Associated Student Refrigerator Agency? It seems quite expensive – $90 a year, vs. $130 or so to buy a decent-sized refrigerator at Best Buy. Anyone have experience or words of wisdom?</p>
<p>There are two things to think about:<br>
- If you buy your own, you probably have to pay for it since you don’t know who will be rooming with your kid next year, and you have to transport it.
- If you rent you can split the cost with the other suitemates (assuming you are getting one for the whole suite) and don’t have to deal with moving it around. However, this does necessitate having everyone agree and assumes no one else is bringing their own.</p>
<p>I have just made a great argument for renting, but we ended up buying a small fridge (S didn’t use it much) since we live pretty near and didn’t mind transporting it.</p>
<p>Considering that they are getting 3 meals/day, how important is it to have a fridge in the room? Maybe I’m being an old codger - I didn’t have a fridge in any dorm room I lived in back in the 70’s (sometimes there was a common fridge in a shared kitchen in the dorm, however) and didn’t really notice the lack.</p>
<p>wjb, if you can transport the fridge home in the summer or are planning to rent storage, I say buy. We rented because I don’t ever plan to drive to Connecticut and was trying to minimize acquisitions. As it turns out, D is renting storage space with friends, and the most cost effective and practical thing (even for us) probably would have been to buy and store it each summer.</p>
<p>For those of you interested in renting, splitting four ways is cheap, the system is efficient- you fill out a single-page form with the guy with the moving van full of fridges standing on the curb outside of OC. They drag it up to your room for you. Not sure how the return works, since I wasn’t there, but it must have been painless, or I would have heard about it.</p>
<p>Why have one at all? D brought home cafeteria leftovers in plastic containers for “later”. She eats a lot. This probably lead to fewer late-night outings for food which I consider a safety as well as a cost concern.</p>
<p>Five words: Cold beers in my fridge.</p>
<p>I too was in college in the 70’s and didn’t have a fridge,and wound up spending lots of money on pizza, ice cream, etc. In college you tend to eat dinner early, and you get hungry later on. D keeps healthy stuff (yogurt, fruit, and the like) that she buys from Shaw’s (local supermarket) in her fridge, which saves on both money and calories.</p>
<p>RE: refrigerators - We were just at Yale yesterday and I was told by student volunteers at the Yale Visitor Center that it’s better to bring your own than rent it thru the school. They said that the kids who rented had nothing but headaches whenever it broke down - and it did break down because the rentals are very old and in bad condition. You have to fill out paperwork, be available when THEY say they’re coming to fix/replace it, etc. And they said that even if you pay the extra $10 for delivery, they don’t necessarily deliver it to your room. You still might have to pick it up somewhere. So, now we’ve rethought this and are not going to rent. We’ll bring one up. And yes, the kids do need a fridge in their rooms.</p>
<p>Also, found out some new information that might be useful for anyone with Bank of America accounts - We opened an account up for our son because I learned on this thread that there is a BOA ATM right on Old Campus. Well, they removed that ATM (I was told that some students whose rooms were right above it complained). But they didn’t replace it anywhere else, and now the only 2 places left are in Bass Library (Cross Campus) - which I found to be pretty close by his dorm on Old Campus - and the actual bank located on Whalley, across the street from the bookstore (not a great area, especially at night). Just FYI.</p>
<p>I vote for buying the refrigerator. I think for the larger items it is easier if someone “owns” it so that it stays with them as they shift roommates. DD is still with one of her original roommates, DD owns the futon, the other young woman the refrig, and since they are now down to only two in their suite - one will buy an appliance that looks remarkably like a microwave. Somehow, I have the refrig in my basement for the summer, but that is a whole other story.</p>
<p>Booklady, you are so right about saving money and calories. DD and roomies put on a few pounds freshman year, but last year they stocked the frig with healthy things and they all looked great at the end of the year. Whenever we would visit, we would take the girls on a run to Shaws, where they would stock up on all sorts of healthy stuff. I loved going on the shopping trip with them!</p>