We started out from the hotel and breakfasted at Panera Bread, where I ate their delicious everything bagel and cream cheese. Then we drove to Tua-Kim and Tua-Ku’s old house and talked to the landlord and caught up with old neighbors. Jenna and I had fun playing in the river for a little while, like we used to whenever my family and I visited.
From the old house, we drove to Yale. The town around the campus (New Haven) was very quiet, and not much was going on. When we arrived at Yale, we were too late for the campus tour, so we did a little walking tour of our own. As always, the college had taken advantage of the summer break to do construction and maintenance on the buildings and sidewalks, so at times it was very loud. The buildings themselves were mostly in the style of Colonial American architecture, due to Yale's roots as an old American college. Buildings on campus were fairly close together and some of them were very imposing, and there weren’t many large, open, green spaces. Because we didn’t register for a tour, we didn’t hear much about the academics, but because Yale was one of the only college names I recognized before the tour, I knew it was probably very prestigious and selective. Overall, I liked Yale, but it seemed very serious and New Haven was a little too quiet, so it wasn’t the best match.
Cathedral Tower at Yale.
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