Day 20 – Yale University
Jojo October 5th, 2008
On our second day in the beautiful state of Connecticut, we had a look at New Haven (which is just a really short drive from where we stayed last night). So, since we got up early, didn’t have breakfast and checked out early, we arrived in the city when mass was still on in every church and the streets were empty. Also, the tour we wanted to take to guide us around Yale University was scheduled for 1:30pm. We killed some time by walking around the nice inner city, already saw a lot of university buildings and a map which showed us just how much of the city is occupied by the university. When we realized that we couldn’t spend the whole time wandering around (it was raining too), we sat down in the nearest coffee-shop and read for a while.
The tour, like at the MIT, was provided by volunteer students. After a short film about Yale (like an advertisement video), we headed into the “campus”. And I can tell you that even after seeing the MIT, Harvard, McGill and the U-of-T, Yale was in no way boring or same-old. The architecture here was quite different from the rest of the buildings, aiming for old Oxford and Cambridge-like style. Nevermind that most of the buildings were erected in the early 1900s, and that in order to make them look that old the architect burried the stones and shingles in a river, and poured acid down his big clock-tower. The Sterling Memorial Library is what impressed me the most. It looks exactly like a cathedral, everything that is except the tiny details, like not having christian motives on the windows but little people reading and doing science. The inside is simply overwhelming, and so is the library further downstairs and the reading rooms. Katrin and I were more than just jealous.
The only downside is that Yale offers a liberal-arts education only, which did not sound like I was gonna like it ;)
Today it’s gonna be Mystic Seaport, and tonight we’ll probably be already in the state of Rhode Island.
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Habe gelesen, dass George W. Bush in New Haven geboren wurde.
Er hat auch in Yale studiert…
Hoffe,wenigstens Euch hat der Aufenthalt viel gebracht.
Wie immer, schöne Fotos kann ich nur sagen.
Danke Johannes
ja, George H. Bush auch und Bill Clinton auch und ich glaub auch Hillary ;-)
aber jojo vergaß die flip flops zu erwähnen, die jeder ordentliche Yalie auch bei fiesestem wetter tragen sollte – und den blauen Yale Pulli…
Guten Morgen zusammen,
George W. hat nicht nur in Yale studiert, sondern mit der Note 4 abgeschlossen…als er vor einigen Jahren als “alumnus” dort eine Rede vor Studenten gehalten hat, hat er drauf hingewiesen, dass man mit einer 4 seinen Abschluss machen und trotzdem Präsident werden kann, was die Professoren einer solchen Ivy league Uni erbost hat…der Trottel. Hillary ist meines Wissens Harvard-Absolventin, aber kann sein, dass ich mich vertue.
Wenn ich die Zeiten Eurer Kommentare oben lese….stellt Vera sich einen Wecker?
Der “Innere Wecker” macht was er will, brauche ich auch nicht
jede Nacht.
Aber johannes` Blog stimmt mich wieder versöhnlich.