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 600 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 99-00