tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355904823307221057.post966675734471370726..comments2009-08-19T20:34:35.451-07:00Comments on ILC Yalies: Pre-Yale Adventures, Colleges, & OrientationYohanna Pepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06620641205664848963noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355904823307221057.post-16430249101982769942009-07-26T01:34:04.309-07:002009-07-26T01:34:04.309-07:00Hi Stephy!
I'm so glad you made it to Yale saf...Hi Stephy!<br />I'm so glad you made it to Yale safe and sound. It's so odd reading the blogs and remembering my time at Cornell. I'm really excited to read what you have to say about your stay in New Haven. Have fun and absorb your surroundings! 3 weeks in Ithaca was reasonably short, so make sure you take in everything New Haven has to offer. Good luck with class!<br /><br />(By the way, do you have a roommate?)Justine Betscharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468571330741872152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355904823307221057.post-63451296112143699802009-07-26T00:54:26.184-07:002009-07-26T00:54:26.184-07:00Stephanie,
What an outstanding commentary of your...Stephanie,<br /><br />What an outstanding commentary of your trip. It was so realistic I even developed some stomach cramps in sympathy with you. Fortunately, though, my legs are still fine.<br /><br />Between the Facebook profiles, what you’ve described about the instructors and lecturers and what I’ve read on the blogs, debating seems to be a very common denominator of the Ivy Scholars Program. Please keep us posted on this so we know how much of a factor it plays in the program.<br /><br />Yale isn’t by itself in being situated in areas no longer deemed safe but it gives pause to wonder why it is that the surrounding neighborhoods associated with so many excellent institutions have become distressed and less than desirable to live in. I’m sure you can easily see—especially after your recent personal adventure in the safety of your own neighborhood—why there are strict rules about where you can and cannot be.<br /><br />Also, being a night owl myself, I can appreciate your desire to have a later curfew but you’ve seen the same schedule I have so I’m wondering just how much free time you thought you might have to be ‘out and about’? You’ll have to give me an update in a few days and let me know.<br /><br />If I didn’t know better, I’d swear that Dr. Dr. Luong gets a commission on the books and papers he has you all reading. When this is all over and done we’re going to have to take a count of the number of pages you were required to read. That certainly might scare off a lot of applicants in the future. I’m a glutton for information and I’m reading just about everywhere I go but the volume of pages you’ve been asked to read scares the bejeesus out of me.<br /><br />I have a vivid imagination, Stephanie, so when I wrote about your success in getting yourself a fan I had vision of the ear-to-ear smile on your face and even a lift in your step after getting yourself that fan. Here you’ve been accepted into one of the most prestigious programs in the country, you’ve earned a full scholarship to get there, you’ve read a gazillion million pages in preparation for this program and you count as one of your major accomplishments that you got yourself a fan. Go figure!Don Gosneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com