You know Yale?
Unlike Harvard which has a pilgrim as a mascot, Yale has a cute, some would handsome, bulldog as a mascot named this.
Who is Handsome Dan?
This is the student organization that aims to promote the recruitment, retention, and inclusion of Ph.D. students in the Yale Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program
The Yale BBS Development and Involvement Community (YBDIC)
For those of us who do not have a car on campus, this transportation system can get you to Med Campus, Science Hill, West Campus, and even Trader Joe's.
What is the Yale Shuttle?
One of the popular spots in New Haven, this pizza place is famous for their mashed potato pizza (it's better than it sounds).
What is BAR pizza?
Connecticut borders this number of states.
What is 3? (tri-state area)
"Urim and Thummim" in Hebrew and "Lux et Veritas" in Latin, this is Yale's motto in English.
What is Light and Truth?
An intellectually stimulating journey, this is the mediam time to graduation for PhD students in the BBS program.
What is 5.7 years?
This is the dedicated building/space at Yale for graduate students across all degree-granting programs.
What is the McDougal Graduate Student Center?
About 1.5 miles from med campus, you can see all of New Haven including the Long Island Sound from this park (P.S. a lot of graduate students live in this neighborhood).
Where is East Rock Park?
Tick season stretches from April to October in Connecticut. Ticks may carry this disease, so you should be sure to stay on the trails and avoid vegetation when hiking (and cover your ankles).
What is lyme disease?
If you like to swim, run, or lift weights, you might go to this place which was originally designed to be a cathedral.
What is Payne Whitney Gym?
Scientific rigor is the strict application of the scientific method to ensure unbiased experimental design, methodology, analysis, interpretation and reporting of results. This class is a requirement for all BBS students.
What is Responsible Conduct of Research?
This is the elected body of Yale graduate students that identify needs and changes to the Graduate School policy proposed by the administration.
What is the Graduate Student Assembly?
Developed in the 1630s as one of the USA's first planned cities, this 16-acre area is at the center of Downtown New Haven.
Where is the (New Haven) Green?
If you didn't want to fly into JFK, this Connecticut airport is less than an hour away from Yale (you can make friends with a graduate student with a car to get there).
What is Bradley International Airport?
This annual matchup is one of the most revered and long-standing rivalries in American college football. It's also voted one of the top experiences during graduate school.
What is "The Game" or "Yale vs Harvard"?
This professor is the Yale BBS Director. He is also a PI whose lab researches mechanisms that intracellular pathogens use to modulate host membrane transport pathways.
Who is Craig Roy?
Yale offers several theater options, including the Yale Repertory Theatre. This more intimate theatre, located in the basement of a former fraternity house (1968), is known for student productions and experimental works.
What is Yale Cabaret?
This is the meaning of "Haven" in the name New Haven.
What is a port or a harbor?
This train line runs directly from New Haven Union Station to Manhattan over 30 times each day.
What is the (MTA) Metro North?
This iconic Yale tower is 216 feet tall and has 284 winding step that go up nine stories.
What is Harkness Tower?
Unlike many programs where students apply directly to departments, first-year BBS students select a thesis lab and leave this to join a Ph.D.-granting program.
What are Tracks?
Gryphon's pub is Yale’s best and only bar for/of/by Graduate and Professional Students, which also happens to have a mascot with this very specific full name.
Who is Ken Gryphon Jr?
Apartment companies, markets, and restaurants use this New Haven nickname - you'll see it around everywhere.
What is The Elm City?
There is a museum for this candy that was created and is manufactured in Orange, CT (about 15 minutes south of Yale).
What is PEZ?