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标 题: Yale info from Acssy
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Dear Friend,
Welcome to Yale!
ACSSY (Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale) is a
volunteer-run, non-profitable, non-political organization, aiming to serve
the Chinese
community at Yale in public entertainment, culture development and
information exchange. In order to celebrate Chinese traditional festivals,
such as the Middle Fall Festival and the Spring Festival, we organize
great parties in which professional singing, dancing and other
performances
are shown. To help new comers settle down easily and quickly,
we are trying to give a hand in pick-up and housing, and organize an
orientation in early September. The email and homepage of ACSSY
ACSSY@Yale.edu
http://www.yale.edu/ACSSY
are being well maintained and updated regularly. You can post your
requests and offers through email, which can provide timely information
for moving sale, housing, traveling, baby-sitting, etc. A BBS is now under
construction to keep the information in classified databases. You can log
in our BBS through our homepage: http://www.yale.edu/ACSSY. There are
more than 400 people registrated in our email list.
There are about 30 faculty members, 200 students (including undergraduate
students, graduate students and professional students), 400 postdocs and
research scientists in our Chinese community at Yale. Adding the family
members together, the total number amounts to 1,000. There is no surprise
that we are the largest international community at the Yale-New Haven
area.
Here come to our personal experience and lessons in living and
studying at Yale. Surely, as a student, we should focus on studying
and working. Study and research are the two most important things, but
it does not mean we should restrict our lives completely in them.
We may want to build up ourselves in many other aspects. Yale is known
not only for her education and research, but also for architecture, music,
arts, management and law, which enable us to develop ourselves in a
comprehensive and balanced environment.
A brochure, which covers most concerns of new comers, like
housing, dining, safety, etc., is enclosed for your reference. It is
mostly based on our personal experiences. The main purpose is to provide
you
with some background information. If you have any question or are not
clear about any part of this brochure, please use the email acssy@yale.edu
to ask us for further
reference.
In closing, we wish you a happy stay in China and a successful and
enjoyable career at Yale.
Best regards.
Yours Sincerely,
ACSSY Board 98-99
****************************************************************
Orientation For New Students
Part I Things You Should Know Before You Come to Yale
============================ly not a safe city to live, specially at
night.
For those who can not finish the custom procedure before midnight,
it is highly suggested to get help from your friends or other people you
know at Yale. Because of the lack of manpower, we can not pick up everyone
at the airport. There are quite a few Chinese students here, if you try,
we are sure you can find a old schoolmate.
If you still have difficulty, you can ask for help from ACSSY.
===================================
|| About the Speak Test ||
===================================
The Graduate School requires all foreign students to pass the
Speak Test at the beginning of the fall semester. So, practice as
much as you can. You just can't imagine how much benefit you will get from
a fluent speaking of English. Be honest, this is the biggest problem for
our Chinese students at the United States. You should be able to find the
information about the test in the brochure Yale University mailed to you.
Take it seriously, but don't worry about it too much. It is not
required to pass the test for the registration purpose.If you failed the
test, there would be a language course you have to take. The course is
not going
to be counted for the total courses you need for your degree, but will be
counted for the total courses you need in one semester to meet the course
requirement in your department. Usually, an engineering student takes four
courses each semester during the first year to be a full-time student. It
varies in other departments.
Part II Things You Will do and Things You Should Be Careful After You
Arrive at Yale
===============================
||Registration with the Office of
Foreign Students and Scholars (OFSS)||
===============================
You should register with the Office of Foreign Students and
Scholars
when you arrive at New Haven. It locates at 246 Church Street, suite 201.
Phone number 432-2305. Office hours: Tuesday through Thursday 9-11:30am,
1-3:30pm. Friday 9-12. Among things you should bring are your I-20 form,
your passport and your I-94 card (the one you get when checking out the
custom) with you.
===============================
||Opening a bank account ||
===============================
You need to open a bank account in the first few days after your
arrival. There are several banks nearby. Make sure whether they charge
monthly fees, whether they have a minimum balance requirement, etc. Never
carry too much cash with you. Currently, People's bank offers free check
for the first months and afterwards if you directly deposite your monthly
check to your account. Fleet Bank is the choice for most people in the
medical school for they run an office in the medical school building.
===============================
|| Social Security Number ||
===============================
Social Security Number (SSN) is an important registration number
in USA. You may want to go to the Federal Building, in Orange St.,
betweem Elm and Chapel Street, to apply for it in the first
week after settling down. Your passport, as well as your visa and I-94,
is required for application. After filling out some simple forms, you may
be asked a couple of simple questions if the person who is on duty has a
good mood. Just answer the questions in a simple way, for example, if
your were to be asked about the plan after graduation (this question is
possible), your would say surely to go back to China. About two weeks
after the application, you will receive a letter, in which a homely card
is enclosed and here you go.
===============================
|| Safety ||
===============================
1. Never go out alone at night. If you have to, call 432-walk to ask
someone to go with you.
2. There are lots of blue callbox on campus. You can call Yale Police by
pressing the red button on top in case of emergency. You can also make
on-campus phone calls (numbers beginning with 432 or 436) by dialing the
last five digits of the number.
3. There is not a clear boundary between safe and unsafe area. Normally
the vicinity of Yale campus is deemed safe.
===============================
||International Phone Call ||
===============================
For those who will live on-campus, DO NOT use the long distance
service provided by Yale to make international calls to China. It is about
$2.4 per minute while most Chinese students are paying about 70 cents per
minute. You might want to use a calling card. But be careful that lots of
pre-paid calling cards are not very reliable. A lot of people buy AT&T
pre-paid calling cards from the Hong Kong Grocery, which cost you $16 for
30-minute call to China.
If you will live off-campus, you can choose a long distance
carrier which provides low rates for calls to China. You can ask Chinese
people in your department for details. They should tell you what to do.*********************************************************************
Dear Friend,
Welcome to Yale!
ACSSY (Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale) is a
volunteer-run, non-profitable, non-political organization, aiming to serve
the Chinese
community at Yale in public entertainment, culture development and
information exchange. In order to celebrate Chinese traditional festivals,
such as the Middle Fall Festival and the Spring Festival, we organize
great parties in which professional singing, dancing and other
performances
are shown. To help new comers settle down easily and quickly,
we are trying to give a hand in pick-up and housing, and organize an
orientation in early September. The email and homepage of ACSSY
ACSSY@Yale.edu
http://www.yale.edu/ACSSY
are being well maintained and updated regularly. You can post your
requests and offers through email, which can provide timely information
for moving sale, housing, traveling, baby-sitting, etc. A BBS is now under
construction to keep the information in classified databases. You can log
in our BBS through our homepage: http://www.yale.edu/ACSSY. There are
more than 400 people registrated in our email list.
There are about 30 faculty members, 200 students (including undergraduate
students, graduate students and professional students), 400 postdocs and
research scientists in our Chinese community at Yale. Adding the family
members together, the total number amounts to 1,000. There is no surprise
that we are the largest international community at the Yale-New Haven
area.
Here come to our personal experience and lessons in living and
studying at Yale. Surely, as a student, we should focus on studying
and working. Study and research are the two most important things, but
it does not mean we should restrict our lives completely in them.
We may want to build up ourselves in many other aspects. Yale is known
not only for her education and research, but also for architecture, music,
arts, management and law, which enable us to develop ourselves in a
comprehensive and balanced environment.
A brochure, which covers most concerns of new comers, like
housing, dining, safety, etc., is enclosed for your reference. It is
mostly based on our personal experiences. The main purpo enable you to
know lots of fellow first year students, and get easy access to the
internet through the university cable system. The disadvantage is that the
rent
is higher than most of off-campus housing.
If you prefer to live off-campus, there are several factors you might
want to consider when making a decision, including price range, location,
safety, etc. When asking about the rent, make sure whether electricity
and/or heating are included. Heating could cost you more than 100 dollars
in the winter months. It's always a good idea to ask a friend here to
find a house for you.
===============================
|| How to get to Yale campus ||
===============================
Most of the coming Chinese students will land at JFK airport (New
York), LaGuardia airport(New York), or Bradley airport(Hartford,
Connecticut).The first thing you have to go through at the airport will be
the costum procedure. it will take about 1-2 hours. If you can finish all
the custom procedure before midnight, there is a ground transportation
service from all the three airports to New Haven, provided by "Connecticut
Limousin". The limousin fare is reasonable, $21 from Hartford to New Haven
limousin station, $42 from New York to New Haven . An extra $5 is needed
to take you from the limousin station to Yale campus by local taxi. If you
can not get a taxi on site, call 777-7777 to ask for one (be prepared the
waiting time could be long). Don't leave the limousin station while you
are waiting, New Haven is generally not a safe city to live, specially at
night.
For those who can not finish the custom procedure before midnight,
it is highly suggested to get help from your friends or other people you
know at Yale. Because of the lack of manpower, we can not pick up everyone
at the airport. There are quite a few Chinese students here, if you try,
we are sure you can find a old schoolmate.
If you still have difficulty, you can ask for help from ACSSY.
===================================
|| About the Speak Test ||
===================================
The Graduate School requires all foreign students to pass the
Speak Test at the beginning of the fall semester. So, practice as
much as you can. You just can't imagine how much benefit you will get from
a fluent speaking of English. Be honest, this is the biggest problem for
our Chinese students at the United States. You should be able to find the
information about the test in the brochure Yale University mailed to you.
Take it seriously, but don't worry about it too much. It is not
required to pass the test for the registration purpose.If you failed the
test, there would be a language course you have to take. The course is
not going
to be counted for the total courses you need for your degree, but will be
counted for the total courses you need in one semester to meet the course
requirement in your department. Usually, an engineering student takes four
courses each semester during the first year to be a full-time student. It
varies in other departments.
Part II Things You Will do and Things You Should Be Careful After You
Arrive at Yale
===============================
||Registration with the Office of
Foreign Students and Scholars (OFSS)||
===============================
You should register with the Office of Foreign Students and
Scholars
when you arrive at New Haven. It locates at 246 Church Street, suite 201.
Phone number 432-2305. Office hours: Tuesday through Thursday 9-11:30am,
1-3:30pm. Friday 9-12. Among things you should bring are your I-20 form,
your passport and your I-94 card (the one you get when checking out the
custom) with you.
===============================
||Opening a bank account ||
===============================
You need to open a bank account in the first few days after your
arrival. There are several banks nearby. Make sure whether they charge
monthly fees, whether they have a minimum balance requirement, etc. Never
carry too much cash with you. Currently, People's bank offers free check
for the first months and afterwards if you directly deposite your monthly
check to your account. Fleet Bank is the choice for most people in the
medical school for they run an office in the medical school building.
===============================
|| Social Security Number ||
===============================
Social Security Number (SSN) is an important registration number
in USA. You may want to go to the Federal Building, in Orange St.,
betweem Elm and Chapel Street, to apply for it in the first
week after settling down. Your passps if you directly deposite your monthly
check to your account. Fleet Bank is the choice for most people in the
medical school for they run an office in the medical school building.
===============================
|| Social Security Number ||
===============================
Social Security Number (SSN) is an important registration number
in USA. You may want to go to the Federal Building, in Orange St.,
betweem Elm and Chapel Street, to apply for it in the first
week after settling down. Your passport, as well as your visa and I-94,
is required for application. After filling out some simple forms, you may
be asked a couple of simple questions if the person who is on duty has a
good mood. Just answer the questions in a simple way, for example, if
your were to be asked about the plan after graduation (this question is
possible), your would say surely to go back to China. About two weeks
after the application, you will receive a letter, in which a homely card
is enclosed and here you go.
===============================
|| Safety ||
===============================
1. Never go out alone at night. If you have to, call 432-walk to ask
someone to go with you.
2. There are lots of blue callbox on campus. You can call Yale Police by
pressing the red button on top in case of emergency. You can also make
on-campus phone calls (numbers beginning with 432 or 436) by dialing the
last five digits of the number.
3. There is not a clear boundary between safe and unsafe area. Normally
the vicinity of Yale campus is deemed safe.
===============================
||International Phone Call ||
===============================
For those who will live on-campus, DO NOT use the long distance
service provided by Yale to make international calls to China. It is about
$2.4 per minute while most Chinese students are paying about 70 cents per
minute. You might want to use a calling card. But be careful that lots of
pre-paid calling cards are not very reliable. A lot of people buy AT&T
pre-paid calling cards from the Hong Kong Grocery, which cost you $16 for
30-minute call to China.
If you will live off-campus, you can choose a long distance
carrier which provides low rates for calls to China. You can ask Chinese
people in your department for details. They should tell you what to do.
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