Hey, you’re here! Or you’re at home arguing with your mom about whether you need to bring a bathing suit to college because you’re about to be here! Or you’re in the woods or in a field getting so hype about being here! In any case, this campus is ready to receive you. There will be loud music and residential college banners and smiley strangers will take your bags and hopefully bring them to your suite.

Honestly, this first week will be crazy, but it’ll also be super fun. You’ll go to frat parties, you’ll play icebreakers, and you’ll ask everyone’s name a hundred times. You’ll try and discreetly use Google Maps to get to your residential college from Old Campus. Just remember we all did too, and now we’re here to help. We want to tell you where we like to eat, where we like to study, how we keep our figure, and what we like to do on a Saturday, because we think this place is fun and we want you to think so too.

So virtually crack open the Yale Herald’s Freshman Issue, because we made it for you. Then come hang out with us at 305 Crown or find us sunbathing on Cross Campus (while we still can). Write for us! Be friends with us! We can’t wait to meet you.

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