<p>^ I believe the students take the campus shuttle, rather than CT transit, from campus to the Metro station.</p>
<p>How many of you let your child keep a car at campus? If your loved one does not have a car, how can s/he improve her/his driving skill after high school?</p>
<p>A car seems an absolute nightmare on campus. No need to have one. My daughter will drive when she’s home on breaks, summer, etc. When I was in college, I never had a car (I was on a suburban campus with a train station at its doorstep, and I used that to come home or visit Philadelphia, the nearby city). I don’t recall my driving skills getting worse over the four years!</p>
<p>I had a car my last year at Yale, and I hardly ever used it except to travel home–that may have made the cost of parking worth it, but I don’t remember. I would strongly advise against sending a car without some very unusual reason.</p>
<p>As for getting to the train station, a lot of students take a taxi from Phelps Gate on the old campus, where you can usually get one.</p>
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Swarthmore? That college is definitely more “accessible” as a short commute by train is all you need to get to the airport. But the area near its quiet campus is not as fun as New Haven.</p>
<p>DS woke up more than 5 hours ago. His plane has just left the gate.</p>
<p>Regarding the car, DS does have a reason to have access to a car not long from now. So we feel the pressure to get him ready for this – even though he has had the driver license for many years. We are pondering about giving him a larger car due to his lack of driving experience, but we are concerned about the fact that most streets are very narrow in New Haven (maybe even in most NE cities!)</p>
<p>Another option for a car on campus is to get a Zipcar membership. My son’s suitemate has one and it works out great for those times when they need to make a run to Target or whatever. Or a Chipotle run, which I think is what it is most used for.
Actually, I’m glad that they are not using a car on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Where is Chipotle in New Haven? (nearby XX Haven or Hamdam?)</p>
<p>I heard about Zipcar. Are they mostly tiny subcompact cars?</p>
<p>The idea that a Yale student would feel the need to go to Chipotle makes me cry.</p>
<p>You must be from an area other than the southwest. Semi-authentic but still affordable (for a student on budget) Tex-Mex food is seriously lacking near the campus. It appears to me that, everywhere you go, you can easily find a Donkin Donut in NE.</p>
<p>I agree that renting a Zipcar in order to eat at Chipotle is very strange and costly indeed. However, DS met somebody who said going to a store like Walmart is really depressing. You never know the background of each individual.</p>
<p>The dining hall food is good, so there is no reason to go far off campus to eat, especially to eat chain store food. There is some great food not far from campus, including some of the best pizza around.</p>
<p>There’s little reason to go to Wal-Mart, either, except perhaps when you first move in.</p>
<p>You will see some students eating off campus at 1 to 2 am, though. An entire group of QMP’s friends used to study until that time, take a break to eat together, and then (often) go back to work for a while.</p>
<p>Although they have gone to Chipotle (it’s not in New Haven…can’t remember where he said it was), I think it was more of a fun little adventure, not a regular thing.<br>
They have used it for occasional shopping trips and truthfully, I don’t know what else. It isn’t used often, but I think sometimes they just like to drive somewhere.</p>
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This may be true for most UG students who live in the residential college.</p>
<p>This reminds me of the following story:
At one time, some graduate students complained to DS that, while graduate students are concerned about not having enough drinking water in their office/research area, Morse College has a beach (or waterfall?). They probably imagined that it is as “luxury” and real as the one in Disney World. DS had to explain to them that the beach is a tiny one so that they would not be so jealous.</p>
<p>UG students are indeed more “pampered.”</p>
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Sure–but they go to Yorkside, or Gourmet Heaven, near the campus. Very few students at Yale are driving anywhere.</p>
<p>Yes, all on foot.</p>
<p>Our student regularly eats at the dining halls on campus. Says the food is good and there is variety.
Only off campus is maybe Gourmet Heavan after a party—</p>
<p>Only “complaint” is that for athletes getting to the res dining after pm practice–they arrive to get very little food–as the dining hall staff is clearing out the buffets and food about 20 minutes before the dining halls close. It is hard for the athletes to get a decent dinner occasionally…They;d all like to see commons open again for dinner–with extended hours.</p>
<p>I believe I read somewhere (YDN?) that Morse Colege dining hall may open till a later time for graduate students. If this is true, I wonder whether althletes can also get in at such a late time.</p>
<p>But I also heard that Morsels complain that their dining hall becomes too crowded because of this. It is hard to please everyone. Actually, by providing the dining hall at each residential college, Yale needs to spend more.</p>
<p>mcat - I don’t think this is true at the moment, since grad students have actually recently reported being denied access to Morse (as well as other college dining halls) at times when the HGS dining hall is closed.</p>
<p>lydia08, Thanks for the correction. It is nice to know about this and I need to inform DS of this.</p>
<p>When DS transitioned from an undergraduate student to a graduate student, he felt as if he were all of a sudden kicked out of the residential college. Well…it is fair as everybody should only have the best four years of his/her life there, not more. It is other’s turn to enjoy their life there. He once said he enjoyed his sophomore and junior years the best (especially the sophomre, when nobody studied abroad.)</p>
<p>It seems he sometimes (not often) still interacts with UG students (likely club activities). I do not know how he manages to sneak into the residential college (mostly to enjoy their better dining hall and food. It seems he could still use his meal plan there instread of Marigold) or some other facility. He never wants to go there unless he has a company though.</p>
<p>Morse is open until 8:00 PM on weeknights but restricted to Morse/Stiles students until after 6:30 PM due to high demand of students from other colleges.</p>
<p>[Morse</a> and Stiles limit dinner transfers | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/sep/12/morse-and-stiles-limit-dinner-transfers/]Morse”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/sep/12/morse-and-stiles-limit-dinner-transfers/)</p>
<p>What I referred to is a trial program about the gym. I think I read both the article referred to by Kdog044 and the one in the following link, and had my senior moment and mixed everything up in a wrong way. My bad.</p>
<p>[PWG</a> extends hours for grad students | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/nov/03/pwg-extends-hours-for-grad-students/]PWG”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/nov/03/pwg-extends-hours-for-grad-students/)</p>
<p>When DS was a freshman, the most sought-after dining hall was the one in Berkeley.</p>