While YDS is a wonderful place, every once in a while you’ll need to venture down the hill to mingle with other Yale students. While it can be frightening at times to leave our “holy hill,” many essential Yale services are located downtown. Here are just a few to keep on your radar.
The Payne-Whitney Gym (70 Tower Parkway) offers free admission to all Yale students with ID. Remember the freshman fifteen? Well, now that you’re starting grad school, you’ve got more reading, more stress, and less free time, so your weight gain could be exponentially more. Plus, working out increases endorphin production, which means that you’ll feel happier.
The Yale Health Plan (17 Hillhouse Ave) provides free primary-care coverage to all Yale Students. For those of you enrolling in Yale’s health insurance program, the pharmacy here will provide your medicine co-pay free. Additionally, all Yale students receive twelve free counseling sessions an academic year through the Health Plan’s mental health services.
246 Church St (Yale likes really creative building names) houses the Student Employment Office. If you’re planning on being employed by Yale, you’ll be stopping by here to fill out forms and get on payroll.
Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St) is Yale’s central library, and the second largest library in the world. While you can have any books you need delivered to the circulation desk at the Divinity School Library, you should go see Sterling. It’s pretty.
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St), houses, you guessed it, most of Yale’s rare book and manuscript collection. Items in the Beinecke aren’t in general circulation, so you’ll have to visit this architecturally-significant building yourself.
Finally, the majority of your course packets will be available at Tyco Printing and Copying (262 Elm St), a local Kinkos-alternative. For the record, whenever you buy a course packet from Tyco, you get a 20% off coupon for any other printing needs you may have.
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