Student Life

Several years ago, we interviewed three newly arrived first-years. Now, we interview them when they’ve got their mortaboards on.

Two incoming freshmen announced that they were coming to Yale in very big ways.

A map showing the order in which Yale’s residential colleges were built.

A basketball player defects to the Whiffenpoofs.

All the societies we know about, as of spring 2014.

Once a year, Yale’s hush-hush senior societies engage in some cryptic but very public initiation rituals.