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Making the most of Yale: one senior’s advice

(Off) Campus
Published Thursday, May 3, 2007

A month ago yesterday, I received an e-mail from a precocious freshman asking his senior friends to share with him all the essential tidbits of Yale wisdom we had accumulated over the past four years.

I told him to learn it the hard way, that uppity freshman, but maybe he was right. I used to think Yale was a free-for-all, a place where wheels are constantly reinvented. In reality, Yale is a community that thrives on institutional memory. There is rarely anything you will encounter in New Haven that someone did not experience before you at this 306-year-old university.

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