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The First-Year Counselor Program was established in 1938 and has been ever since an intrinsic and essential component of Yale's advising system for first-years. The program has evolved in many ways over the years, but the general purpose of the program has remained the same: to help ease the transition of incoming first-years to the academic, social, and cultural life of Yale College. Applicants are urged to seriously consider how serving as a counselor fits into their plans and obligations for senior year. They are also encouraged to discuss the prospect of applying for a position with their residential college dean. Heads of residential colleges, cultural center directors, and current first-year counselors may also be useful to consult. While the responsibilities of counselors are heavy, and the demands made on their time and energy are great, the opportunity to support students encountering Yale for the first time is profoundly important and uniquely rewarding. In the eyes of many first-years, no position at Yale is more significant; and for many counselors, no other job is more satisfying.

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The First-Year Counselor Program was established in 1938 and has been ever since an intrinsic and essential component of Yale's advising system for first-years. The program has evolved in many ways over the years, but the general purpose of the program has remained the same: to help ease the transition of incoming first-years to the academic, social, and cultural life of Yale College. Applicants are urged to seriously consider how serving as a counselor fits into their plans and obligations for senior year. They are also encouraged to discuss the prospect of applying for a position with their residential college dean. Heads of residential colleges, cultural center directors, and current first-year counselors may also be useful to consult. While the responsibilities of counselors are heavy, and the demands made on their time and energy are great, the opportunity to support students encountering Yale for the first time is profoundly important and uniquely rewarding. In the eyes of many first-years, no position at Yale is more significant; and for many counselors, no other job is more satisfying.

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AODHRI is dedicated to reducing the various harms - physical, psychological, academic, and social - of drug and alcohol use among Yale undergraduates.

The remaining TIPS Bartending Trainings in Fall 2021 are full. You can add your name to the waitlist or individual events, or you can sign up to receive a notification when new trainings are made available here: https://forms.gle/iWAXALzzimt56NZG8.

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The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) is Yale's media laboratory for everyone. At CCAM we investigate intersections of art, science, and technology through research, programs, and exhibitions. A wing of Yale Arts, CCAM does not provide curriculum, but instead focuses on guiding students, faculty, and visiting artists in expanding and exploring all manner of projects.

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The Communication and Consent Educators (CCEs) are a large, diverse group of undergraduates working together to foster a more positive sexual and social climate on campus. We aim to end sexual violence by transforming our corner of contemporary culture into one where respect, mutuality, and mindfulness are the norms. A safe campus is critically important, but we want even more – we want Yale to be a place where everyone can thrive.

Through workshops, trainings, and conversations, we help students identify troubled dynamics and develop skills for effective interventions; even better, we work on strategies for avoiding problems altogether. CCE teams also work (usually in collaboration with other student groups) to change the campus environment itself, reimagining traditional events and practices to maximize the opportunities for ideals to flourish.

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With all of the opportunities available and people to meet over the next four years, coming to Yale is exciting - but the unknown may create a little anxiety for new students. Everyone looks forward to successfully adjusting to the Yale environment and culture so that they can call this place their second home. To aid in this process, the Cultural Connections program (CC) was designed to introduce first-years to Yale's cultural resources as well as to explore the diversity of student experiences on the Yale campus, with emphasis on the experiences of traditionally underrepresented students and issues related to racial identity. For over 40 years, first-year students have participated in an exciting week of engaging activities intended to facilitate their transition to Yale alongside their peers, CC counselors, and many members of the Yale staff. Activities include discussions with faculty experts about ethnicity, nationality, and race; panels on academic expectations by faculty; presentations on campus life by students; and group visits to local points of interest such as the Yale College cultural centers, local and University museums and parks.

"Without CC, I wouldn't know the Yale that I know. The CC community was my first home, and it will be always be the one I come back to." - Esul Burton, YC 2020

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Education at Yale takes place inside classroom, library, laboratory, and far beyond. Yale and outside funding options can help make it possible to pursue something amazing which you might not be able to do otherwise. Find support for research, study abroad, public service, unpaid internships, and self-designed projects, in New Haven and around the globe. Postgraduate fellowships support independent projects, graduate study, and much more.

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Demystifying the world of money management — from credit cards to budgets to taxes, being a student comes with its own set of financial hurdles.

Explore and learn how to take ownership of your financial life.

finlit.yale.edu

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Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT) is an orientation program of backpacking trips for entering Yale freshmen led by two upper class leaders. Students hike along trails to enjoy the views, cook simple meals, and set up tarps under the stars. Freshmen hear about college life first-hand from older students. However, much more is accomplished—students learn skills that have immediate practical use, they are challenged physically to reach goals and mentally to endure hardships, and learn they can accomplish more than they thought. Students come together and form a tight bond of lasting friendships, and they create a close group that supports them during the oncoming years.

Goals of the leaders are to create an atmosphere of trust and inclusiveness, and to ensure the safety and well being of each freshman. It is the mission of FOOT for students get in touch with themselves and the great outdoors in the wonderful wilderness of the Northeast. In addition to the focus on freshmen, FOOT is a proven leadership training program for its leaders. After undergoing our leader training sessions and leading trips, FOOT Leaders can apply the skills they have learned to almost any situation or career choice that involves problem solving, critical thinking and empathy for others.

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Harvest is a Yale College first-year pre-orientation program that promotes early community-building between Yale undergraduates, and connects them with family-owned, environmentally sustainable farms across the Northeast.

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Preventing, recognizing, and responding to sexual misconduct is a community-wide project: every one of us has a part to play in making our campus culture as safe, respectful, and supportive as it can be. To build our individual and collective skills, all members of the Yale community have an annual sexual misconduct training requirement.

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The Science, Technology and Research Scholars (STARS) Program, administered by the Yale College Dean’s Office, is designed to support students who come from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics. The STARS program provides undergraduates an opportunity to combine course-based study, research, mentorship, networking, and career planning in the fields of science and technology. The program seeks to improve student performance and persistence rates in all STEM disciplines.

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Yale Study Abroad is here to guide you through the process of identifying the international experience that fits your goals and interests. Choose from hundreds of study abroad options, including Yale Summer Session Programs Abroad, Non-Yale Summer Abroad, and Year or Term Abroad.

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YBDT focuses on providing an encouraging and accepting environment for everyone. We organize practices and lessons, taught by veteran team members and professional instructors, catered to all skill levels from newcomers to champions. Everyone is welcomed and no prior dance experience is required! Members have the opportunity to participate in competitions and showcases each semester. Sign up here for more info: https://forms.gle/svBcqJQCpG4acDAQ6

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To develop competitive and ethical racers, enthusiasm for riding, equality in racing, and foster a local biking community.

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The purpose of this team is to provide the opportunity for Yale students to compete in IHSA horse shows and to learn about equitation and horsemanship in a safe and supportive team environment.

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YCT's mission is to provide a community for climbers at Yale and to provide resources for competition climbers at Yale. We welcome all students, regardless of prior experience, to join our team.

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Yale Kendo seeks to teach the practice of Kendo in the Yale Community. Kendo (the way of the sword) is a martial art based on traditional Japanese swordmanship.

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Our mission is to play the beautiful game beautifully while building a team whose chemistry transcends the boundaries of a soccer field.

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C2 plays in an outdoor Intramural League, competing with colleges and universities in the region. We usually play 10 full-sided games in the Fall, and then compete in a local CT indoor league in the Winter. We practice roughly two times a week, moving indoors once the days get shorter in the Fall. C2 also spends time together off the field, with social hangouts, meals, and viewings of pro soccer games. C2 has a strong alumni network who come back to campus in the Spring for our Alumni Game. Once a C2 boy, always a C2 boy.

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We are a sports team that exists to teach the sport of ultimate at a high level to all of our players, no matter what their athletic/ultimate backgrounds. Additionally, we strive to succeed competitively while staying true to the values of the international ultimate community that include gender equity and spirit of the game.

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The Muay Thai Kickboxing Club aims to provide a community where Yale undergraduate and graduate students can safely learn the Muay Thai style of martial arts for recreational and self-defense purposes.

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Yale Club Running welcomes all undergraduates (and graduate students) to run with us as a group. We offer multiple pace groups every day, and are far more focused on running together than running "fast." We do not hold try-outs, we do conduct organized -- and completely optional, occasionally overnight -- trips to cross country meets in the fall and track and marathon events in the spring. Track and other running workouts are held twice a week, but like all YCR events, workouts are totally optional. Alternate runs will always be available on workout days.

We're a friendly group, with a wide array of Yale experiences and backgrounds.

Join us to see Yale and New Haven in a new way!

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Yale Club Swimming is a team of students from all corners of
campus life, with any range of experience, who come together due
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Our goal is to provide a space where people of all experience levels can join and learn how to synchronized swim and to also create a fun and supportive community.

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Club Taekwondo at Yale is a co-ed sports club that offers a dynamic Korean martial arts experience for undergraduate students, graduate students, and Yale faculty. Club TKD has operated for almost 40 years at Yale and provides a welcoming community and training environment where students can learn, grow, and compete at various levels of competition. Through rigorous training, members develop physical fitness, self-defense skills, and mental discipline. The club emphasizes technique, sparring, and forms to enhance students' overall athleticism and confidence.

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Get a great workout while learning self defense techniques and spending time with an amazing group of students from every major, background, and skill level possible!

Keep updated for Fall 2023 club registration by signing up on our mailing list! Or, signup by emailing Sein Lee (sein.lee.sl2743@yale.edu) or Laura An (laura.an@yale.edu).

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We are an all-inclusive group of undergraduate and graduate students who enjoy the sport of triathlon. We strive to create an environment where athletes of all skill levels can receive professional coaching and training in the sport they love. We also work hard to make an otherwise very expensive and elite sport affordable and accessible to students. Join us for fun swim/bike/run practices - no previous experience needed!

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Access to practices in the pool and spin room, guidance from a professional triathlon coach, race opportunities, insider knowledge on local running/cycling/open water swim routes.

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We are the Yale Women's Rugby Football Club! We come from all walks of life, and all joined rugby with varying experience (majority had never played) but eager to meet new people, and learn a new sport with fitness-minded people. We like to say that we are the fittest team on campus :)

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We are a club sport, but get a lot of perks too. We have two amazing coaches, Craig Wilson and Alycia Washington that have exponential amount of experience. We get to workout in the weight room, and also get some cool gear.

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The Yale Wushu team seeks to better its members in practice; by gaining focus and self-control
through intense training. Members hope to achieve self-mastery that will translate into respect
and compassion for others both inside and outside of the training hall.
Yale Wushu also seeks to better its community. The Yale Wushu team has been blessed by
many opportunities to spread the message of peace and nonviolence that lies at the center of
the word "wushu." Our classmates at Yale will go on to be leaders in their respective fields; it is
our hope that during our time here we succeed in spreading this message of peace to them. We
are also trying to spread this message to the city of New Haven.

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This portal will be your guide through the months ahead as you prepare to join us on campus. On here you will find important forms, deadlines, and tons of information about what life at Yale is like.

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This portal will be your guide through the months ahead as you prepare to join us on campus. On here you will find important forms, deadlines, and tons of information about what life at Yale is like.

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Welcome to the Class of 2026! This portal will be your guide through the months ahead as you prepare to join us on campus. Here you will find important forms, deadlines, and a checklist to help you keep track of your required tasks.

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The Office of Student Affairs, located on the 2nd floor of 55 Whitney Avenue, provides critical support, advocacy, information, and guidance to undergraduates. Students are encouraged to seek the assistance of our office whenever needed.

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The Yale Bands is a thriving cultural community. Its members are given opportunities to prepare and perform great music; learn about the arts and their place in society and international cultures; and develop skills to become leaders. Through a robust series of musical activities, many Bands members work with and become serious performers, conductors, composers, arrangers, writers, archivists, historians, photographers, producers, choreographers, media producers, critics, and teachers. Band members develop and master these skills through service to the University, performing and producing commencement music, benefit concerts, university ceremonies, theater shows, international tours, reading sessions for classes, and special events.

The Yale Concert Band is an ensemble of 45-60 wind, brass, and percussion players that perform repertoire ranging from wind band classics to premieres, commissions, and the newest wind band literature. All Yale Concert Band activities will be virtual for the fall semester. AUDITION MATERIALS: https://bands.yalecollege.yale.edu/audition-info-fall-2020-yale-concert-band.

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The Yale Glee Club is Yale's principal undergraduate mixed choir and oldest musical organization, currently in its 160th season.

Our plans for Fall 2020: Like choirs throughout the world, we will not be able to do many of the things we normally do this coming fall, but we are committed to maintaining the Glee Club as a vibrant community for Yale students who love to sing by making music together however we can, learning, serving our community, and cultivating connections with each other.

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The Yale Bands is a thriving cultural community. Its members are given opportunities to prepare and perform great music; learn about the arts and their place in society and international cultures; and develop skills to become leaders. Through a robust series of musical activities, many Bands members work with and become serious performers, conductors, composers, arrangers, writers, archivists, historians, photographers, producers, choreographers, media producers, critics, and teachers. Band members develop and master these skills through service to the University, performing and producing commencement music, benefit concerts, university ceremonies, theater shows, international tours, reading sessions for classes, and special events.

The Yale Jazz Ensemble is a seventeen-piece big band that performs a wide variety of music, from pieces from Yale's Benny Goodman archive to the newest, most progressive jazz compositions. All Yale Jazz Ensemble activities will be virtual for the fall semester. AUDITION MATERIALS: https://bands.yalecollege.yale.edu/audition-info-fall-2020-yale-jazz-ensemble

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The Yale Bands is a thriving cultural community. Its members are given opportunities to prepare and perform great music; learn about the arts and their place in society and international cultures; and develop skills to become leaders. Through a robust series of musical activities, many Bands members work with and become serious performers, conductors, composers, arrangers, writers, archivists, historians, photographers, producers, choreographers, media producers, critics, and teachers. Band members develop and master these skills through service to the University, performing and producing commencement music, benefit concerts, university ceremonies, theater shows, international tours, reading sessions for classes, and special events.

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The Yale Bands is a thriving cultural community. Its members are given opportunities to prepare and perform great music; learn about the arts and their place in society and international cultures; and develop skills to become leaders. Through a robust series of musical activities, many Bands members work with and become serious performers, conductors, composers, arrangers, writers, archivists, historians, photographers, producers, choreographers, media producers, critics, and teachers. Band members develop and master these skills through service to the University, performing and producing commencement music, benefit concerts, university ceremonies, theater shows, international tours, reading sessions for classes, and special events.

The YPMB is one of twelve scatter-style marching bands in the country. What does this mean? Most marching bands spend their time on field spelling their name in script or making a swirly line formation while playing the complete works of Andrew Lloyd Webber. We perform halftime shows composed of comedy segments, during which we spell witty things on the field and play really cool rock music. Between formations we run around wildly (hence the clever name "scatter band"). For example: in the past we've done a sketch about the rise and fall of Saddam Hussein as a Yale professor, accompanied to "It's Gonna Be Me" and "Live and Let Die," one in which we played the "Godfather" theme and dug up Jimmy Hoffa on the 30-yard-line (this was during our trip to Giants Stadium) and the unforgettable George W. Bush sketch, which involved a line of white-shirted bandies and the playing of Eric Clapton's "Cocaine." We are also a pep band. During the winter we support Yale's hockey and basketball teams every weekend. This time of year often leads to playoff travel; we've been to Lake Placid, Ann Arbor, MI, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, and more. We are a mobile attack unit. If there's anywhere on the Yale campus (or, really, the East Coast - we're flexible) that needs some relief from pretension, we'll be there to provide.

We could go on for pages trying to tell you what we are. You'd be best off to show up and find out, really. You won't be disappointed.

For more, visit us here: https://bands.yalecollege.yale.edu/bands/yale-precision-marching-band/frequently-asked-questions

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On the farm, in the classroom, and around the world, the Yale Sustainable Food Program grows food-literate leaders.

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The Yale Symphony Orchestra (YSO) is an inclusive organization that is committed to elevating the musical discourse at Yale by sharing an exciting annual program of high-quality performances, workshops, and social activities.

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