<p>Seriously now, most of these questions can be answered through Google. I’ll humor you though, since I love Yale so much.</p>
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<li><p>Yale is consistently ranked as the third-best university in the world (though I think it’s #1!) but it’s so much more than the academics. You can find a club for almost everything and a community that fits your every interest. Most importantly, I think, the people are wildly diverse but consistently brilliant, and it makes for an unparalleled social experience. </p></li>
<li><p>Yes, Yale is a lot like Hogwarts! We live in “residential colleges,” which are just like houses. There are 12 residential colleges, and we all compete against each other for a big intramural sports award called the Tyng cup. There’s also a lot of pride about which college is the best. (it’s Branford!)</p></li>
<li><p>This is the really silly question. Yep, Yale is a Division I school, you can compete on a really high (varsity) level in almost every sport, from basketball to soccer to crew and squash. There’s also club sports for those who aren’t good enough to make Varsity and intramurals for those who just want to have fun with low levels of competition (they can be pretty intense though!)</p></li>
<li><p>It’s a crazy amount of work, but Yale parties really hard. I would say most people are out at least once a week at a party, and there’s always tons of stuff to do on campus on Friday and Saturday nights. Sundays are usually dead because people are hungover and studying. But that’s not always true! Next week is the study period for finals and Yale hired a big party train to take 600 of us down to NYC for the day!</p></li>
<li><p>Like most other universities, I go to class in the mornings. I usually have 2-3 hour-long classes a day; some are lectures with 50+ people, others are sections with less then 10 (and sometimes as few as 5). You can take a class in pretty much every subject you can dream of. In the afternoons I do homework and study. At night, I’ll usually go to dinner with friends at the dining hall, and then sometimes to a meeting of a club I’m in or a publication I write for. On the weekends, there’s studying in the day and tons of parties at night–recently, there was Safety Dance, where everybody dresses up like the '80s, and Prohibition, a dance where everybody dressed like the '20s. There’s also lots of small parties in dorms and if you’re not a partier there’s plays, concerts, and meetings.</p></li>
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<p>Seriously, though, do they not have Google in Norway?</p>