<p>Having to deal with limited enrollment and oversubscribed classes sounds so frustrating. Hope things work out for your kids, clarimom and 2blue. I have to say that my son has not encountered these problems. Could be luck of the draw – he’s in a very small major. There just may not be tons of kids vying for spots in the courses he needs/wants. (Hell, I can’t even understand the titles of some of them. Stochastic processes, anyone?) Although he had one class that turned out to be a big disappointment last year, his biggest problem has been narrowing the many options that interest him…</p>
<p>My daughter didn’t call today but texted she shopped 7 seven classes so far. She has Spanish, Chem and has to pick 2 others, one almost sure of, another, up in the air. </p>
<p>It has taken me literally 4 hours to get 2 feet of snow out of driveway and paths to get my cars out…last snow was fluffy, this snow was wet and heavy…good for snow balls though!
My daughter’s room is always warm, she even put her fan on once when it was oppressive.
One young man told me “shopping” is only fun when you have what you want and are auditing classes for the future. That’s just his opinion, but everyone has a different view on it.</p>
<p>My D complained of a very hot room all through the fall semester. I think they had an issue with the heating in their entire suite, not to mention an open window… I figure once those issues get taken care of, they’ll be back to overly hot rooms.</p>
<p>Shopping <em>should</em> be easy for her- she’s in DS, which pre-selects 3 of her classes in advance. But DS also restricts times when she can fit in that 4th or 5th class. And since DS can be so all-consuming, she is trying to take classes that won’t be so reading/writing intensive, and will employ different parts of her brain.</p>
<p>D2 has always complained of her rooms being too hot, but that might just be her internal thermostat. She just sent me photos of her room since she switched this semester, finally she has her huge single with a fireplace that she’s always dreamed of. Better late than never!</p>
<p>No shopping for her this semester, she only has classes on TuTh and wants to keep it that way.</p>
<p>vp,
D2 had a similar challenge with finding classes to fit her schedule. Between being premed and having a non-science major, it seemed like there was always a conflict between a lab and a seminar or other course she wanted to take.</p>
<p>vp, DS is wonderful. My son absolutely loved it. He took a QR class the first semester along with it, and a science the second. They were a great change of pace.</p>
<p>D loves shopping period and perhaps it is just the luck of the draw or her persuasion skills but she manages to get all the classes she wants. She got into the section of a photography class, a Russian Lit class and three classes towards her major. </p>
<p>She could not get the door of her dorm building to open early this morning because of all the snow piled outside, so she ended up climbing out of a first floor window so she could get to work on time lol.</p>
<p>Following up on my previous post about D considering moving to an off-campus apartment for her annex year: Does anyone know if she would still be allowed to purchase her college’s meal plan, and have access to the college library, gym and laundry facilities? Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>Yes, you can purchase a meal plan for her, the ones you’re used to considering as well as a cheaper 10 meal plan or 5 meal plan. (Go to the end of the page for off-campus student meal plans: [What</a> we offer, Dining: Yale University](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/dining/options/mealplan.html]What”>http://www.yale.edu/dining/options/mealplan.html).)</p>
<p>She will still be a member of her residential college and will still have access to it. (I hope she will have laundry facilities that are closer to her appt than those in the residential college!). My S is a junior living off campus and hasn’t lost any access at all.</p>
<p>Thanks, Yalemom2. Good point about the laundry facilities. I assume her apt. building will have its own.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the 2011-2012 tuition, room and board costs?</p>
<p>^^^When my son was accepted EA in December, we received the below estimates with his preliminary FA offer:</p>
<p>ESTIMATED 2011-2012 EXPENSES<br>
Tuition: $38,300<br>
Room and Board: $11,500<br>
Books/Personal Expenses: $3,100 </p>
<h2>Travel Expenses: $150 </h2>
<p>Total Estimated Expenses: $53,050</p>
<p>^Those are the 2010-2011 numbers.</p>
<p>We have noticed what a great job Y does to connect the incoming class…Blue Marble, several letters from Dept, regional admissions rep etc. Call from current student (though message left sounded canned/reherased, and the student sounded tired) etc etc</p>
<p>Go Y!</p>
<p>This is so disturbing on so many levels.
For a top university–this lacks in so many ways and I dont understand how the women at Yale dont speak up.</p>
<p>Can students easily avoid this weeks activities?</p>
<p>[Yale</a> President “Levin the Confused” into Student Anal, Oral Sex and Sadomasochism to Stimulate Faculty and Student Potential MN Prager Discussion Group](<a href=“http://mnprager.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2011/01/31/yale-president-levin-the-confused-into-student-anal-oral-sex-and-sadomasochism-to-stimulate-faculty-and-student-potential/]Yale”>Yale President “Levin the Confused” into Student Anal, Oral Sex and Sadomasochism to Stimulate Faculty and Student Potential | MN Prager Discussion Group)</p>
<p>Hey fogfog,</p>
<p>There are quite a few things wrong with that article, and I would be doing other readers a disservice by not pointing out its flaws. First, I don’t think I have ever read a published article so poorly written. Contrary to popular belief, the style in which works are written are quite indicative of the (little) research done before writing it. Second, the author clearly was hung up on the idea that a porn mega star was there, and through taking quotations out of context, misguided his readers. From what I have read and heard from current juniors and seniors, her presence was not to talk about her sexual preferences, but rather it was to explain that sex should not have to be a ‘guilty’ pleasure. I actually heard that she was a great speaker and was rather intelligent.</p>
<p>Lastly, one can not understand sex week without understanding Yale’s subculture of sexual exploration and education. Yale is largely known as a University where students can feel safe exploring their sexuality and other areas of sexual culture. Therefore, the purpose of sex week is to bring up topics that college aged students can relate to so the acts that they participate in can be done in a safe, and even enjoyable, manner. Pushing the topic of sex and everything it entails won’t make it go away.</p>
<p>I hope this helps anyone who may also be misguided by that article.</p>
<p>P.S. Sex week is in no way mandatory, and can be avoided if a student doesn’t show up to any of the scheduled events.</p>
<p>According to my D, neither she nor anyone she knows of, participated in sex week activities.</p>
<p>fogfog,
Please read starting on page 29, post #425, Sex Week was discussed pretty extensively last year.</p>
<p>Many don’t participate. My daughter isn’t and her friends that are sophomores last year told her they didn’t. Seems almost childish in a sense, but they are young. My son’s school had a week like that but much less involved, he just ignored it and some had fun, some just went for a bit and left…it’s really up to the student.</p>
<p>Did anyone get the email about the changes in schedules? My daughter was jealous of her sisters’s October break and now she’ll have hers…although an extended Thanksgiving one makes more sense to me.</p>
<p>Thanks Entomom.</p>
<p>Debruns
Is there a link for the calendar? I had seen a proposed one online earlier for 2011-12 and 2012-13. What made them add in Oct and decrease nov?</p>
<p>xfxjumper, dont be insulted, yet you are a hormonal teen…
where in Yale’s founding and mission etc do you find that the schools subculture…etc is to explore deviant behavior?
Actually Yale was founded to raise up godly men to be leaders–as they believed H was doing it wrong. The historical writings and even changes in mission in the last 50 years–when chapel was no longer required is interesting. Yale does allow for various voices and points of view–and supposedly it is to be in a respectful context.
Lacking respect, the whole week is shameful and degrades humanity, feminism and dignity.</p>