Back to School, 2018

(YWAA photos)

In the waning days of August at Yale, there is always a calm before the late-August invasion of students--old and new.  This year, Yale welcomes the Class of 2022.

Yale, in late August, is quiet, as the campus gears up for the fall. Special summer sessions are ending, and special orientation programs have begun.  Familiar grounds on Old Campus and along Hillhouse Avenue are as verdant as they will ever be throughout the year. Some might contend the campus is as clean and spruced up as it will ever be--before students return to swarm courtyards, streets, Cross Campus and Broadway and before the slush of winter comes.

The new one-year-old residential colleges (Franklin and Pauli Murray, above) get a dusting up, as well.  Favorite pizza hangouts, less crowded and noisy now, prepare for the September rush.