TOUR GUIDE

I am a self proclaimed college loving fool. I loved nothing more than being a student at the University of Washington, and I know that when I take the plunge and finally attend grad school I am going to show up for my first day a bundle of excited nerves.

Therefore, seeing as I have spent all weekend in New Haven, CT visiting my best friend who is finishing up her final year of her graduate school program at YALE (OMG she hates when I get all excited about the fact that she's at Yale this year), I was really excited about the prospect of being around a college campus once again.

Here's how our conversations about Yale life have gone,

ME: "Wow, that's gorgeous. What is that building?"

LP: "Umm, I have no idea."

ME: "Are those dorms? I would have KILLED to live in dorms like that! That looks like something out of Harry Potter."

LP: "Yeah, I think those are dorms, but I don't know." 

ME: "Is that a church? Or a classroom?"

LP: "There is a distinct possibility that is both. But honestly I have no idea."

ME: "Are the student cafeteria's nice?"

LP: "I've never even stepped inside one."

ME: "That building across the street from your house looks like a fucking castle. Is that a Yale building or someone's house?"

LP: "I got nothing." 

ME: "Have you been to a Yale Rep show? Read the Yale Daily News? Bought anything at the bookstore? Eaten at X, Y, Z restaurant?"

LP: "No. No. No. and No."

All weekend I've basically been on a Yale/New Haven tour with the worlds worst tour guide. But I guess it wasn't a total bust. We did spot a nerdy professor type in his natural habitat.

That has to count for something right? I mean odds are he was solving world hunger, or discovering the cure for cancer, or grading the paper of a future great American novelist.

Or drawing pornographic doodles of his young students.

I don't judge.

Ashley, the Accidental Olympian

Comments

[the Grumbles]

i think that's a hobo.

[Ashley, The Accidental Olympian]

GRUMBLES -- No way, hobos don't tend to hang out on campus writing in their notebooks. Right?

OMG If that's a hobo then my college tour was TRULY a bust of epic proportions.

[Life of a Doctor's Wife]

Such a cute post! I was the same way in grad school - I knew the English Department buildings and that was it. I didn't even know the purpose of the building where I taught classes.

Yale is beautiful though! Did you see the crazy-looking rare books library? Ah-May-Zing.

BTW - Lots of professors look like hobos.

[Ashley, The Accidental Olympian]

DOCS WIFE -- I missed out on the rare books library seeing as my tour guide was unable to update me on the purpose of ANY of the Yale buildings. I would have loved to see that though.

And I totally agree, 75% of my professors in college looked more homeless than studious. 

Thanks for stopping in! 

[Natalie]

That's exactly how I was in my undergrad! I knew everything, who to call, and I hung with people like that. Once my boyfriend (then) and I decided to find the secret tunnels we'd heard so much about -- and we did. And we made out in them! Fun memory.

At least you found a hobo. That redeems it.

[Dear Mason...]

LP IS LYING!!!! Everyone who has ever watched Gilmore Girls knows that all Yale smarties eat in the cafeteria... they get to swipe a cool little meal card and everything. IM ON TO YOU LP!!!

[Ashley, The Accidental Olympian]

DEAR MASON -- (p.s. I got excited when you commented because I thought you finally started the blog)

I thought the SAME THING. I actually asked where the Gilmore dorm was and of course LP was NO HELP.

I should have taken the 'official' Yale tour. I bet they knew if GG ever shot on campus.