@canoe2015 - students can fill out a form for the Post Office to accept UPS and FedEx packages. It took my D awhile to figure that out last year. I didn’t have that problem when I was there in the late 70’s. There was no UPS or FedEx. Once my mom wanted me to have a dress for a party. My dad took it to the Greyhound bus station and put it on the bus. I got it a few hours later!! Boy have times changed.
Missing S terribly. It doesn’t help that he limits communication to one-word answers, or sometimes only a letter “Y” or “N” or “K”. What an amazing weekend it was, moving in, walking around New Haven, meeting these incredibly brilliant and talented kids from all over the world who are his peers. Parents were so kind, not pretentious, and it felt like a kinship. The dean’s panel on Friday was right on about the challenges they will face this year, and how to best support them. The freshman assembly was stirring but, boy, do they throw these kids into the deep end or what? They got about 5 minutes of congrats and then they roll up their sleeves. Of course, that was exactly what S wants, and has wanted all along, and why he set his heart on Yale. It is just so bittersweet to get that intimate and dazzling glimpse into his new world…and to let go of him at the same time, since it is HIS world now, not ours. Am looking forward to Family Weekend!
@momcinco I can definitely relate, though my son’s texts are often longer, made of words instead of letters, “YES”, “NO”, “OK” :))
@momcinco, it gets easier over time. I found that letting DS decide when communication would take place worked best for us; unfortunately it’s often late.
They might throw them in the deep end, but with a freshman retention rate of 99%, they’ve apparently selected well.
Thanks TPerry1982, I’ll ask my daughter to fill out that form.
You are right Ixnaybob, part of this is HIS deciding on communication. I don’t like this letting go business but the freshman panel was so eloquent about it. They also brought up communication and keeping the channels open.
And yes also he was ready and eager to be thrown into the deep end. In this case, entering discussion of whether to change name of Calhoun College in light of church shooting in So Carolina – less than 24 hours after arriving on campus. Yale is an amazing place.
You can get a bit of a vicarious view into what’s going on by reading the Yale Daily News online (http://yaledailynews.com/).
My son would like to take five course credits, but his dean won’t sign off, so he is taking four now. I don’t know what to make of this.
Hzhao2004, I would make of it that the Dean has seen this before. Trust him. Assuming that your son chose 4 good subjects, he will not be bored.
DS seems to pick one class each semester that takes up a lot of his time. He says, for example, that Math 230 and 323, consume more time than the other classes put together. The dean is familiar with workloads. He also wants your son to have time to enjoy some of the many non-course benefits of Yale.
Too late to edit, but that was CompSci 323, not math 323. It also wasn’t clear, but those classes were not taken concurrently, so it is possible to have one class take more time than three or four others.
Freshman dorm room was a bit rough upon move in. For example, the walls were damaged in several places. DS took photos but is there something else he should do to document this damage? Did anyone else find the rooms really dirty? I was surprised that the floors had not even been swept (not just dust, but lots and lots of dirt everywhere). Floors will probably not be swept again all year - ha!
Pictures are probably a good idea, but I wouldn’t worry too much. Don’t they have to submit some sort of “checklist” to their Master’s office? My daughter’s room was never “perfect” when she moved out (her fault), but she was never charged.
Yeah, usually not perfectly clean on move in, either.
Some of the freshman dorms are used for summer housing, which might be why they weren’t all that clean–there might have been pre-season athletes there, for example (my kid’s team moved into his freshman dorm after everyone left in May because their season extends into early June). Taking pics is a good idea. My son’s room had a broken shelf when he moved in last year–they notified maintenance right away, though I’m not sure whether it ever got fixed.
I do the cake delivery every year with the cupcakes. Then dd can give out the cupcakes without too much of a mess.
@hzhao2004,
4 u to 4.5 u for first sem frosh yr is standard. As I wrote on another thread, u need 36 u to graduate. This equals 4.5 u per sem. You want first sem frosh yr to be the lightest so that kiddo can get into the swing of things.
Like IxnayBob, musicmerit and TPerry1982 mentioned a couple of pages back, it sounds like the Yale Station post office will accept non-USPS deliveries (FedEx, UPS, etc.) with the street addressing convention noted in post 4395.
Just one thing to add, here is the form that the student needs to fill out to enable street addressing:
http://yalecollege.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/YALE%20Customer%20Agreement.pdf
I just talked with my daughter and she is sounding a bit tired of the various mandatory orientation activities and seems to feel like they’ve gone on a little too long. I’m just curious if any other parents have heard this?
From what I can tell on the calendar it looks like the orientation activities (at least the mandatory ones) conclude tomorrow, so hopefully this is just a transitory thing.
Ha Ha, just wait for graduation weekend. We just endured that. I’m sure it’s a lot to take in, but this too will pass.
One more mailing question: d and roommates are going to share a po box. Since this hasn’t been completed yet, am I able to send a package to the prospect address? I’m getting conflicting info. D says yes, the website info looks like ‘maybe’? Lol any ideas?
I thought the Prospect address was just for before school started, or that’s how it reads to me on the class of 2019 mailing and shipping page.
BTW my daughter just tried her PO box and the key doesn’t work - they either gave her the wrong box number or the wrong key. I guess the lesson is try the key immediately after getting the box.