I've lived near New Haven (where Yale is) my whole life and many of us feel that Yale is a cancer on the city. Yalies act like they own the town but shit themselves at the thought of having to go into Fair Haven (a neighborhood in New Haven that's predominantly Black and Hispanic). Yale owns a significant portion of properties across the city, yet don't even have to pay fucking taxes... literally a cancer, leeching resources from the people who genuinely call New Haven their home. If it makes you feel any better, I know plenty of people who either work for or go to Yale and they always grab shit from these catered events. My coworker's partner brought us a whole fucking wheel of fancy cheese. There are also food recovery teams that go around to events and redistribute the food so it doesn't need to be thrown out. Like, bringing full trays of pasta dishes from Yale events to places like shelters. I'm part of a community organizing group and a few of our meetings are 'catered by Yale' lol
@leviichuu711 We're trying!! And to be clear, the food recovery is unaffiliated with Yale - it's an effort of locals who care. When I went to UConn I would do similar things after events - take as much food back to my dorm as possible. One time I was able to bring back like 90% of a party-sized sheet cake. My floor devoured it lmao
Wait no that actually does make me feel better, my biggest issue with this whole video was just the food waste... Like don't get me wrong there are SO MANY ISSUES but the amount of food waste I was imagining was obscene
That really sounds awful. I have some friends who go to Yale and I hope they're not down with this 😭 I'm glad to hear that you're part of efforts to recover the food though; one of my first thoughts when seeing this was "I hope someone is taking the extra food to distribute to those who need it"
Imagine getting rejected from Yale and finding out that instead of the application fee going towards a future presidents education it went to some dry chicken someone had like two bites of 😭
Hey bro nobody goes to Yale on a student loan. Nobody goes to Yale on debt. You’re either intergenerationally rich and there on legacy, or you’re there on a full merit scholarship but likely working class/working poor and struggling to keep up with the elite culture.
Truth. I'm a HS senior rn and my friend just got a full-ride scholarship to Yale, Columbia, and Stanford lol She is a 1st gen hispanic student though and had APs and student leadership all 4 years, so it wasn't a surprise she got in (still happy 4 her though). She didn't end up picking Yale as her school but yeah, you're right
Never thought of deer as fancy, because where I grew up any random dude could be hunting it for a hobby, I grew up pretty rural too. Pretty interesting how different demographics consider different things high class.
Yeah that's just game meat lmao, anyone with a gun license and a hunting license can get some 😂 I mean I love deer, don't get me wrong, but NOT a fancy meat in Canada haha
I’ve never had deer but I’ve always seen it as a very country food lmao. Like you go out hunting, you prepare it all yourself, you buy deer jerky because you already know you like deer, etc. I’ve never met someone who just goes out of their way to eat deer if they’ve never hunted before.
On the Yale one I'm just thinking "are they eating while standing?" "Where are the tables and chairs?" "People are running to grab food?" The Oxford Diner looked way way more enjoyable vs just being in a big crowd scrambling around in chaos.
I've been to the Oxford dinner and it was a pretty standard posh dinner. It was nice, but I hate stuffy formal events like that and my dysphoria did not like me wearing a shirt
ngl, this feels mostly like a publicity stunt to hook the freshman. cause wouldn’t maybe the seniors or post grads appreciate this more?? than 18yr olds that were definitely raised eating this in mommy and daddy’s mcmansion?? maybe a bit more gratifying for them? but i’m a state college dropout so what do i know lmao
I wondered if it was to keep costs lower because 18 year olds cannot drink. It might be expected to have alcohol for the whole class if it was for seniors for example - I agree that it is probably better suited for seniors or grad students.
My community college served Taco Bell, microwave popcorn, and Totinos pizza rolls at our first year ball extravaganza feast. Not quite as fancy as this, but it was back when Taco Bell still had double decker tacos on the menu, so…
I live in New Haven. These people are the bane of my existence. They're why my rent is so high, as gentrification is making things so much worse. Landlords see people charging insane amounts, like four grand, for a luxury apartment... So they know that down the street, as New Haven is very small - people would be willing to pay more. Especially since we now have no other option. My rent went from $980 in the past 6 years, to 1.3k a month.... Same exact neighborhood too. The amount of waste that they produce, is disturbing. Especially during Yale christmas, which happens every single year when the students leave. They essentially clogged all the entryways onto the enclosed parts of campus, (which is most of the campus to be honest) - with all their clothing, furniture, toiletries. I go dumpster diving around that time every year, and I go to Yale to get stuff. It is honestly insane the things I get. I have literally found money in the garbage before. & they divert a lot of things that are meant for the city, to take care of the campus. Oftentimes you see New Haven employees, not yale employees, taking care of the campus. Not to mention the whole fact that they're not paying taxes. So all that land, is essentially a waste of money for new haven. As New Haven makes most of its money, and income, off of property taxes. It is so insane, how deep The divide between the rich and the poor is here... It's honestly a big reason why I'm moving back to the suburbs in december. I cannot take it anymore, how untenable living here is. I can't deal with the fact that the city actually has favorites when it comes to who gets help from the city. 💀
@tubbolard6514 I know what gentrification is. My point is that this is such an old problem that it could hardly be called gentrification over the course of 300 years.
@@FunkBastid The gentrification of New Haven is a fairly new thing, despite the school being so old. It isn't just students and employees moving in and taking up resources. Yale has purchased many buildings (which, depending on the purpose of the building, takes them off the tax roll) and owns large portions of actual streets in New Haven This happened within the past few decades. Yale, however, has not expanded its student housing, and this pits actual residents of New Haven against grad students for housing. There's a whole website of landlords and their properties, which is inaccessible to the general public, that will only rent out to Yale affiliates. New apartment buildings are cartering to this transient, wealthier class. Despite people saying that new builds will force the price down on older apartments, that is not what I've been seeing. Many of my friends, who live in old apartments that have not been renovated in at least a decade, have had their rent increase $400-$900 in the last few years. Local public schools have reported record numbers of students without stable homes because of the insane rent increases (as well as property taxes skyrocketing due to the city's need to compensate for what Yale owns and does not pay taxes on, and all of the new builds driving up property values). Yale is a corporation and it has no respect for the city of New Haven. It keeps taking and taking, and will occassionally throw the city some crumbs to keep the politicians in their pocket satiated.
Seeing that hunger games event thing at Yale has me like "okay maybe the purge but just so the poor kids who are stuck in student worker food service jobs making minimum wage get to hunt the rich kids for sport for once"
The purge would never work. Rich people would have access to procure better weapons and enhanced security. The poor would inevitably become the hunted.
so yale sent me recruitment materials when i was starting four year. for the few scholarship/merit students who get in, its shockingly more affordable than the less-than-ivy league school i picked. im very confident that the money for this type of thing is coming entirely from donorship or material bribes from the legacy students' families. theres a big trend among expensive schools of throwing these events in the interest of convincing parents that the school is safe and enriching to send their perfect little angels to.
i have 3 friends attending oxford and can confirm their fanciness levels are off the charts, they literally have to dress up in formalwear to take their exams
Oh to hell with that. Nope nope nope lol I'm too much of a working class Scot to be bothered with doing all that dressing up 😂 mind you I regret sooooo much having not gone to uni. I love that I learned to be a baker but at the same time I also love knowledge for knowledge sake. Tempted to do some part time learning though soon, especially given I just turned 41 and they say it's never too late!
That's kinda fucked? Formal wear is the most uncomfortable clothes and as someone with sensory issues that would throw me off so freaking bad. Imagine you're trying to graduate summa cum laude and you miss out because having to wear a skirt with pantyhose or heels or a tie for a test ruined your GPA? I will never understand why they have to take it so far
@@Grace-er9ep Imagine you're trying to review court briefs or close an international deal but you miss out because you never learned how to tolerate wearing a tie.
I feel like a more sensical one of these things would be Mount Holyoke's "gracious dinner" where twice a year the dining hall has much fancier food and the dining hall workers get to show off fun food art (turkey shaped bread, an ice sculpture outside, stuff like that) Its a bit overwhelming since they try to keep the days that it happens a secret, but any student can go
I was thinking about gracious dinner too! It was always insanely crowded though and you had to get in line 1-2 hours early to get a seat. I was never a huge fan because of that
@@yourwife1111that’s what I’m saying! They are being trained to be dull from day one. All they do is list off courses. Imagine someone went to a dinner, came back and just told you all about the food? Was all, there were braised lamb with gold flakes. That would be weird, and suggest it was really boring. If you’re having a good time you aren’t harping on about the food, your being like this guy said that, this gal did this, I met this awesome guy, this funny them etc. etc. I feel this legit explains a lot. The dullest people I know lean on things OTHER PPL HAVE DONE. They name drop ppl who have done impressive things, harp on about food they ate that other ppl cooked, they have nothing to say for themselves. You put all those people in a room together and nobody is funny, nobody is interesting, so they have to ship in good food to give them something to lean on. I don’t know these Yale people personally, it’s just the vibe I get from these videos.
@tubbolard6514 thought you’d like this update- I was visiting my partner in New Haven today and we were in one of the local bookstores/coffee shops, it was full of students bc finals season. I’m in line getting a book and a drink and behind me are two Yale students and I hear them talk for a solid three minutes about traveling to Switzerland every summer as a kid and their plans for this year to visit Hawaii and Ibiza in between doing their real estate internships. So yeah, they’re not wrong lmao
as someone who lives near New Haven, there is NO FUCKING WAY. that slogan is marketable as hell and i bet some students could take advantage of it for profit if they see it.
Sometimes my professor will bring things from the teachers lounge that the teachers were about to throw out to class and let’s us take as much as we want. God bless that man.
@@yourwife1111real my professor gave us some chicken tenders for the last day of class (and announced that he fucked up the final so it’s only worth 2% of the grade)
The difference between the Yale and Oxford dinners is *really* stark - feels a bit like a "new money vs old money" thing, like you kind of touched on in the video. Very interesting to see that difference in the uni's approaches to wealth.
You hit the nail on the head with the "new money vs old money" comparison. That's definitely what it looks like. Flashy and desperate to impress vs refined and traditional.
7:02 Btw in the UK, all universities cost the same, doesn’t matter if their oxbridge, Russell group, or a normal uni. So it is attainable, you just have to be smart. I know quite a few who went to Cambridge and they weren’t from rich families.
The videos of this dinner make me want to throw up. Not because it looks bad but because I feel the stench of money and out of touch privilege stinging my nostrils The evil in that room could put any haunted house to shame
I love Yale serving this insanely luxurious shit and then working at a public college and our students literally struggling just to remain housed and using our food pantry in record amounts… not to mention adjunct faculty being on food stamps. This is absurd 😖
I went to a small private college in Oregon and omg the events were not as fancy as these but I still felt like it was over the top and if they just cut down on these expenses they could lower the cost of attendance. They were also not transparent at all about how they spent their money, for example we found out one year that the college has 120k yearly contract with the New York Times so that we can get it for free. Every week without exception 99% of them ended up in the trash… so yeah I think at a lot of these “fancy” colleges and universities a lot of the money is not being spent very well. And then other sectors lack funding like our physics department had no money…
I just got my bachelors from oxford and I just have to add. Oxford formals like that one happen several times a week and for many of the students living with oxford prices, it’s the only way to get reasonably priced food, since the colleges tend to subsidise them heavily. If you are veggie like I am though, the food can be pretty poor
I went to Yale. They have a portion of the endowment set aside to always have ice cream or frozen yogurt in the dining halls but most of the dorm buildings don’t even have air conditioning.
@@analuizacamposdesouza4628 yeah and it’s not because they can’t afford it. In fact they install temporary units in the dorms for the rich kids who do summer programs.
Honestly I wish instead of these expensive, lavish dinners/formals/balls that everyone who attends say “everyone should experience in their lifetime” we just had regular balls, but they’re like crowd funded. Pay a minimum to get into the ball and have access to the minimum amount of food (not a limit per say, just the amount and quality that will be provided for all, it’ll hopefully make sense) if enough people reserve. After the minimum reservation, you can donate to fund more cool stuff, like more lavish food, for the entire event. And you can’t reserve too soon and have to wait for those who’ve never gone before if you’ve reserved before, unless you have some sort of special case. But idk, I’ve just always wanted to attend a ball…
This is likely crowd funded too. Most major university host functions based off alumni donations. A good portion of the food was probably sponsor generated.
There are events like that! For example, Ive been to a pirate cruise that had live music, snacks, and folks dressed up. Then a pagan convention nearby had 60 dolllar admisson and that included a masquerade ball! Folks love to celebrate and be extravagant, and I wish ya luck finding neat stuff. Unless i misunderstood your post in which i apologize.
@@be.A.bI doubt it, I think they probably just sell tickets to this, I went to a similar uni that had similar formal events (though not this grossly out of touch level imo) and these weren’t really sponsored, the people who went kinda just paid for it. They cost around £100 per person. Since this is in America, it could be more though, I’d guess maybe $200-250 per person.
They do have this. At least in the US, the most popular ones are all located along the coasts: San Francisco, LA, NYC, etc. For example, the annual fairy tale ball in LA is pretty famous, as is the Labyrinth ball. NYC has a ton of huge, themed parties; some of them are very fancy and regal, like a ball. There’s Regency balls, Victorian balls, Medieval balls, etc if you’re into the more historical side of things. Regency balls are HUGE right now with how popular Bridgerton has gotten. You just have to know where to look. Going to a ball is a very niche interest - most people wouldn’t bother if they have to seek it out themselves and it’s not just handed to them. The Yale ball is more heavily attended because it’s tied to the university experience, like kinda like going to prom in high school. Even if you aren’t super into the experience, you’re more likely to go because it’s seen as a once in a lifetime experience tied to that specific time in your life.
I made the dean's list at my community college and was anticipating this "banquet" and it was straight up store bought sweets and cool aid. I worked so hard and was so proud because prior to college i was a c student. When I found out what was my reward, I felt so let down. Now.... you're telling me these underclassmen get a fucking Dinner for existing?????
For anyone wondering why that person said everyone should experience an Oxford university formal dinner at least once in your life, it's because you can pay to dine at some of the colleges outside of term time, usually as a tourist activity. Two of my sisters worked at Christ Church (one of the richest colleges) serving in the Great Hall and the banquets were very popular with rich American tourists. My parents also went to Christ Church as students and they claim that the food there is the best in the whole university.
My sibling went to Christ church and they said the daily food was good, but not amazing. I went to their graduation dinner and it was ok. I've had better tbh. I'm not even some rich snob, I'm unemployed and living with my mum, I just wasn't overly impressed by the food. It was more 'kinda posh local restaurant' than 'the most influential university in the world'
@@_ikako_ tbf, my parents went to Christ Church over 20 years ago so it's very possible that the quality has deteriorated over time. The last few times they've eaten there was for their gaudies which the college invests a lot more effort in compared to the everyday meals.
"[very fancy], very clearly so" he tells me, and I go "hmmm yes, yes, very clearly" in total agreement while simultaniously having no litmus test for fancy except a Reba McEntire song
bro im a student at a uni in eastern europe my mind cannot even fathom this. when i think of all that wasted food and money it literally hurts like,,, excuse me THE LOBSTER CART?? WHY?? my uni doesn't even have a cafeteria and its baerly holding together lmaooooo
yeah in the uk (the parts ive lived in at least), local villages just have a deer roasting at all of their events, its just what you have at group events of any size
Yeah in Canada deer are a rural thing. It's illegal to sell it and I have heard alot of stories of eating almost exclusively game meat in hard times. Once my aunt and her family ate a dead worm infested deer because the doctor said it was safe to eat as long as they pick out the worms. Definitely not high class....
Not for these people. FYI, the students who are attending this “ball” AREN’T the Yale students who are struggling to pay to go and on loans and scholarships but the alumnus children and/or the well off students who actually pay to go there. You have to pay for this “tradition” by the way.
@@theonoelle that was my point. Almost everywhere else the drinking age is lower. But there in america those people can drive, be in college and have jobs, yet they can't have alcohol.
If you want more of a fair comparison between the Yale Holiday Meal and Oxford /Cambridge (aka 'Oxbridge'), I would say look into the May Balls. The Formal Dinners are regular occurences throughout the term and tend to be a sit-down meal, whereas the Balls are a once per year event (some college do it every other year). Each college does it slightly differently, but we're talking fairgrounds, hot air balloons, live performers, dancing, food tents everywhere, a room dedicated to cheese... The Balls tend to be very extravagent, so more akin to the Yale Dinner.
It's interesting the cultural difference in the food between the US and UK. In the UK deer is fancy because only nobility were allowed to hunt, historically. In the US, venison is hick food
This isn’t super related, but my small town is fully of MANY people in the poverty line, nearly every building will give out free food to people on Christmas and Thanksgiving. The library, The church, one of the corner stores (usually a corn dog and a fountain soda, but still very generous of them to do since they do it whenever there’s any kind of parade in town too), and the food bank all give free dinners out, relatively great ones too.
i mean... not to brag but one time our college's catering thing brought little boxed lunches to our recreation room... a sandwich AND an apple AND chips.... so i know a thing or two about fancy college dinners
I went to a school that wasn't an ivy league but well known enough and like, nothing like this happened. Our dining halls were pretty good (except the freshman one where getting food poisoning is pretty much inevitable) but nothing to write home about. But don't worry the president of my college found new ways to be the worst, it happens everywhere
I mean the reason you go to an Ivy league (or Oxford/Cambridge/College of London) is for networking opportunities. The class is important but it is pretty well known that a C at Harvard is an F at most Universities.
Lol, idk that much about the American universities but the top British universities actually take academics seriously. The way it works at Oxford/Cambridge is that you're ranked against all the other people in your year to determine your class of degree. That means all the super academically strong people are ranked against each other. People getting a 3rd or a 2:2 at Cambridge/Oxford likely could have gotten a 2:1 or even a 1st at other English universities.
@@imogenklark2798 you are correct. I should also add that a Master's at an Ivy League is the real deal but the bachelor's is more specifically what I was talking about. Which overall makes sense because at the bachelor's level there isn't that much more knowledge available between private and public universities but Masters is where more research is required.
yeah my mother went to a fairly prestigious university in the uk and they were only allowed to give out 3(i think) firsts per subject per year, so even though she was at first level and would have gotten one at other universities, because she was at a high level university, she was given a lower grade
@@notapplicable6985 that's how everything works in England. Every exam we take is graded based on everyone else in our cohort, not the actual work itself. for example, in A-Levels (our high school leavers exams) some years you have to get 200/300 on exams to get an A*, but if everyone is very strong that year then that score might only get you a B.
The great hall in Harry Potter was filmed at Oxford Uni (Christ Church College) and Durham Uni (University College) in most films. So those are kinda what it looks like. They both have other nearby buildings (eg New College in Oxford or Durham Cathedral) where other parts were filmed at as well. I think Pinely lives in the UK so those are slightly easier to visit.
As a high achieving student not from a nepo background, I was really close to getting into Yale and being rejected was one of the most painful experiences of my life but also ended up being one of the best things that's happened to me.
I don’t go to Columbia, but I’m guessssiiinnnggg that since usually surf and turf refers to seafood + meat, then the “earth” part likely differentiates vegetarian/vegan options.
Wouldnt it be nice if instead of stupid lavish balls, they did public service? Provide food for the people experiencing food instability? I went to a jesuit school for college (im not religious, they just had an awesome department for my major) and that's what we did
"Everyone should experience an Oxford diner at least once in their life" I beg to differ kind sir, I have come to the conclusion that in fact the opposite is true. That instead, everyone should experience waking up in a jail cell with the realization that nobody is coming to get you out. Forces you to do some emergency self reflection. It also really makes you appreciate the small things you have/had.
Honestly if we could wave a magic wand like that, I’d rather everyone get to experience something wonderful. Make it that there IS always someone coming to help. To feel supported. Not that the world is at battle against each other.
I had a rough childhood. Because of that, I appreciate all the good in my life. Nothing will make you appreciate freedom like spending years under the thumb of evil people.
12:13 bro why was the dancing better at my year 6 dinner dance that was held in the local public library… we may have been disgusting sticky 11 and 12 year olds but we knew how to waltz…
The Oxford one looks like old school French cuisine, the thing you find either at your aunt Christmas party or at a restaurant in the countryside that have been open for so long and ppl are mostly going for Sunday lunch with grandma. (source: im French)
2:00 Not gonna lie it looks so tacky. I’ve been to fancy uni dinners and you pay separately to attend them and they cost quite a bit of money but they are fancy fancy, in some of the most expensive restaurants in London (I study and was born in London so I’m used to spending lots on food). I’d be so disappointed. I get invited to posh parties with my parents business partners, and if I ever saw this I think that would be the end of any partnership.
hi i'm brazilian and even going to a p fancy private university ive never witnessed anything even remotely close to that. afaik first years in any university just get together for beers and throwing mud at each other and thats IT
I mean, considering some of the stupid shit my college used tuition money on, using it to give your 1st year students a special party that they will remember their whole lives seems like a great thing.
You know what, if I was going to Yale, this is lowkey exactly what I would expect out of my experience. If I'm smart enough to go to the rich person school, I want to feel rich.
I went to a private (just below ivy ) university and we had stuff like this too. The problem that a lot of students on campus had was that we had no vote in how the hundreds of thousands of “activity budget” were spent. So while many first years didn’t have proper housing (housed at random apartments, or in dorms with outdated heated and cooling ) we would have outrageous parties with bouncy houses, catering, staff etc. many students working for the school were forced to work for free or for below minimum wage, while the school blew their budget on showy displays like this one. Private colleges are a huge scam unfortunately:(
My cousin went to the US to Yale on a student green card with full board scholarship and I am FUMING because she is a complete recluse (and that's coming from a recluse myself) and definitely decided to not go to this event on her first year because she wanted to study.
1:20 To be fair, the reason universities keep getting so expensive is because of these kind of extra curriculum activities the schools offer (at least from what I understood)
FYI, university in the UK all cost the same whether it’s a normal, no name that no one knows of outside of it or Oxford or Cambridge. And scholarships to these schools aren’t based solely on financial hardship OR academic achievements so it’s quite literally possible for everyone to go to Oxford or Cambridge or another amazing Uni if you really wanted it and worked for it. You can also experience an Oxford dinner outside of being a student which is why she says “everyone should experience it” because everyone can if they wanted too.
My school at events like this (on a much smaller scale) a few times a year for the whole campus. It was called gracious dinner and it was meant to be a time for the students to reflect on the things they were grateful for. Most of the leftovers are either given to the staff/dining workers or show up the next day
This looks like such a pathetic show of "Royalty." Aka overconsumption and waste masquerading as rich celebration. Type of people to virtue signal about homelessness yet waste 100,000s on this.
I don’t get why people are shitting on an OTT tradition. The amount of work that you have to put in to get into a place like that, and the amount of work you have to put in to graduate from a place like that is nuts. So let them have some ridiculous fun? And before anybody @s me I was on full scholarship at Dartmouth. The education and traditions were both bonkers. I always looked forward to a rare event of fun on the endowment’s dime.
at my university in sweden we have dinners almost every week but they're all organized by student unions! i think there's one (1) fancy, Nobel-themed, dinner a year. the normal ones are always themed and you're supposed to either come dressed up and/or sporting your union garb (usually a colorful boilersuit). the food can be made at a campus kitchen but often it's catered from a local restaurant. there's a lot of weird traditions around it, but generally it's very messy and fun, with lots of drunken singing and linedance!
The Oxford formal dinners are something that are very college dependent (it's a collegiate university), but at my college they usually happen once or twice a week (there are set days), and they aren't explicitly black tie or anything but it is relatively fancy. We have the latin prayers and formal things like that. Probably the event most comparable to the Yale dinner would be one of the college balls, except they are not something included in your tuition, they are independent things that you pay for out of your own pocket (but we don't pay completely ridiculous amounts of tuition like at comparable American unis).
My friend went to Keble College in Oxford and I went to a formal dinner there when I visited her. It’s routine for students to attend, and it’s also common to have non-students such as myself, who had to pay to be there. It was very heavy on dignified ceremony. Standing at the beginning, reciting Latin, etc. The food was okay but not spectacular. There were three or four courses. There was a soup course and a meat course, and probably dessert. (Sorry, it was in 2004 and I didn’t take notes on everything since I didn’t know I would be writing about it in a RUclips comment 20 years later.) It was definitely not vulgar or extravagant like the Yale event seems to be. The most famous Oxford holiday dinner tradition is the Boar’s Head dinner at (I think) Queen’s College. I don’t think you mentioned that one.
I went to a small liberal arts school and we had an annual dinner called lobsterfest. Definitely not fancy more similar to Columbia. Mostly for students to learn about clubs and activities on campus and socialize. We had the option of lobster, steak or mushroom steak and a bunch of sides. Casual traditional dinner are so much more fun!
Man what the hell my collage degree is worthless, we didn't have no fancy dinners and we didn't even throw the gox damn hat at the end. Higher education is literally a scam
me happily taking 1 free cupcake in four years from public university that still cost more than I want to think about, and that cupcake only bc the subcampus of my business minor was ritzier
My uncle coached running at Yale and I still can’t believe that this is a real place. Like wtf this isn’t what college is about why are people so over the top about random and pointless bullshit
The funny part is how colleges like Yale especially have endowments large enough that they don’t even close to need to charge for tuition. And they can afford stuff like this but charge you for life anyway.
commenting late and halfway thru bc i went to cambridge uni and it also radicalised me! they did formal dinners pretty regularly but those were more lowkey (tho still extremely posh). more like this were the may balls -- once a year and not just for first years, but unbelievably extravagant parties with tons of booze and food and little attractions from comedians to bumper cars. legitimately wild and extremely odd, yet somehow both more and less extravagant than this. EDIT immediately after i commented saw the oxford bit, yeah fully that's the regular formals. caviar and stuff innit
I went to Yale. All of us who didn't grow up insanely rich thought this stuff was ridiculous too. The Yale Corporation is stealing hundreds of millions of dollars every year from the city of New Haven, Yale police officers are brutalizing peacefully protesting students and kicking unhoused people off the streets and into shelters they have to PAY FOR, and Yale's leadership continues to ignore and actively suppress students and community members fighting for them to divest from fossil fuels and genocide and reinvest into New Haven. I am immensely grateful for the wonderful students and faculty members I met during my time at Yale, but the institution itself, like all powerful institutions in this country, is focused much more on generating shareholder profit at all costs than serving its students or its community.
Deer is pretty gamey, it upsets my stomach but it tastes so good on the grill. We live in an area where the deer population is way too large because humans drove out most of their natural predators so there are a lot of hunters here. My college feeds us sandwiches and potato salads on special days :0
It’s kinda grotesque lol. Idk what it is but watching those carts of food roll out & people taking selfies with giant turkey legs made my stomach turn.
I've lived near New Haven (where Yale is) my whole life and many of us feel that Yale is a cancer on the city. Yalies act like they own the town but shit themselves at the thought of having to go into Fair Haven (a neighborhood in New Haven that's predominantly Black and Hispanic). Yale owns a significant portion of properties across the city, yet don't even have to pay fucking taxes... literally a cancer, leeching resources from the people who genuinely call New Haven their home.
If it makes you feel any better, I know plenty of people who either work for or go to Yale and they always grab shit from these catered events. My coworker's partner brought us a whole fucking wheel of fancy cheese. There are also food recovery teams that go around to events and redistribute the food so it doesn't need to be thrown out. Like, bringing full trays of pasta dishes from Yale events to places like shelters. I'm part of a community organizing group and a few of our meetings are 'catered by Yale' lol
I’m glad there are things being done about the food waste 🙌
@leviichuu711 We're trying!! And to be clear, the food recovery is unaffiliated with Yale - it's an effort of locals who care. When I went to UConn I would do similar things after events - take as much food back to my dorm as possible. One time I was able to bring back like 90% of a party-sized sheet cake. My floor devoured it lmao
Wait no that actually does make me feel better, my biggest issue with this whole video was just the food waste... Like don't get me wrong there are SO MANY ISSUES but the amount of food waste I was imagining was obscene
That really sounds awful. I have some friends who go to Yale and I hope they're not down with this 😭 I'm glad to hear that you're part of efforts to recover the food though; one of my first thoughts when seeing this was "I hope someone is taking the extra food to distribute to those who need it"
With that amount of food waste I wonder why they don't just invite the older years along too lol
Imagine getting rejected from Yale and finding out that instead of the application fee going towards a future presidents education it went to some dry chicken someone had like two bites of 😭
and that someone had to literally tote in by cart for show, as if they are a lil food pony
i would rather pay for the dry chicken tbh
and that's coming from a vegan
application FEE?? wtf america
Hold up there's a fee for applicating 😭
Hey bro nobody goes to Yale on a student loan. Nobody goes to Yale on debt. You’re either intergenerationally rich and there on legacy, or you’re there on a full merit scholarship but likely working class/working poor and struggling to keep up with the elite culture.
yep, had a family member go to an Ivy League
they'll cover your tuition but you'll be thrown into a pressure cooker
Truth. I'm a HS senior rn and my friend just got a full-ride scholarship to Yale, Columbia, and Stanford lol She is a 1st gen hispanic student though and had APs and student leadership all 4 years, so it wasn't a surprise she got in (still happy 4 her though). She didn't end up picking Yale as her school but yeah, you're right
A good memoir that touches on this is Hillbilly Elegy
even Gossip Girl manages to touch on this enough that I understand how gross Ivies are
Yeah schools like Yale and Harvard even offer full rides to anyone worth under a certain level too.
Never thought of deer as fancy, because where I grew up any random dude could be hunting it for a hobby, I grew up pretty rural too. Pretty interesting how different demographics consider different things high class.
Yeah that's just game meat lmao, anyone with a gun license and a hunting license can get some 😂 I mean I love deer, don't get me wrong, but NOT a fancy meat in Canada haha
Yeah I thought that was wild because where I live venison is seen as like, hick/poor food for this exact reason.
lol yeah. Had deer a lot growing up, whole thing reminds me of how lobster used to be prison food. Both tasty
“What’s classy when you’re rich but trashy when you’re poor”
I’ve never had deer but I’ve always seen it as a very country food lmao. Like you go out hunting, you prepare it all yourself, you buy deer jerky because you already know you like deer, etc. I’ve never met someone who just goes out of their way to eat deer if they’ve never hunted before.
On the Yale one I'm just thinking "are they eating while standing?" "Where are the tables and chairs?" "People are running to grab food?" The Oxford Diner looked way way more enjoyable vs just being in a big crowd scrambling around in chaos.
I've been to the Oxford dinner and it was a pretty standard posh dinner. It was nice, but I hate stuffy formal events like that and my dysphoria did not like me wearing a shirt
ngl, this feels mostly like a publicity stunt to hook the freshman. cause wouldn’t maybe the seniors or post grads appreciate this more?? than 18yr olds that were definitely raised eating this in mommy and daddy’s mcmansion?? maybe a bit more gratifying for them? but i’m a state college dropout so what do i know lmao
Though in yale they're probably from a regular mansion lol
Honestly I had the thought that it seemed like 'love bombing' showering a new person with affection and attention, only to slowly withdraw it...
Probably real mansion. Not McMansion, except for the few who got full rides for academics.
they're specifically trying to attract international students who pay way way more than domestic students
I wondered if it was to keep costs lower because 18 year olds cannot drink. It might be expected to have alcohol for the whole class if it was for seniors for example - I agree that it is probably better suited for seniors or grad students.
My community college served Taco Bell, microwave popcorn, and Totinos pizza rolls at our first year ball extravaganza feast. Not quite as fancy as this, but it was back when Taco Bell still had double decker tacos on the menu, so…
Those were good asf
dang we just got a slice of pizza and got yelled at by our discrete mathematics professor
Honestly sounds banger, who doesn't love Taco Bell?
We got panda express, and Chic fil a
I don't think we got anything....lol
I live in New Haven. These people are the bane of my existence. They're why my rent is so high, as gentrification is making things so much worse. Landlords see people charging insane amounts, like four grand, for a luxury apartment... So they know that down the street, as New Haven is very small - people would be willing to pay more. Especially since we now have no other option. My rent went from $980 in the past 6 years, to 1.3k a month.... Same exact neighborhood too.
The amount of waste that they produce, is disturbing. Especially during Yale christmas, which happens every single year when the students leave. They essentially clogged all the entryways onto the enclosed parts of campus, (which is most of the campus to be honest) - with all their clothing, furniture, toiletries. I go dumpster diving around that time every year, and I go to Yale to get stuff. It is honestly insane the things I get. I have literally found money in the garbage before.
& they divert a lot of things that are meant for the city, to take care of the campus. Oftentimes you see New Haven employees, not yale employees, taking care of the campus.
Not to mention the whole fact that they're not paying taxes. So all that land, is essentially a waste of money for new haven. As New Haven makes most of its money, and income, off of property taxes.
It is so insane, how deep The divide between the rich and the poor is here... It's honestly a big reason why I'm moving back to the suburbs in december. I cannot take it anymore, how untenable living here is. I can't deal with the fact that the city actually has favorites when it comes to who gets help from the city. 💀
that sounds crazy, actual money in the trash??💀
I hear you, but gentrification? The school’s been there longer than America.
@tubbolard6514 I know what gentrification is. My point is that this is such an old problem that it could hardly be called gentrification over the course of 300 years.
@@FunkBastid The gentrification of New Haven is a fairly new thing, despite the school being so old. It isn't just students and employees moving in and taking up resources. Yale has purchased many buildings (which, depending on the purpose of the building, takes them off the tax roll) and owns large portions of actual streets in New Haven This happened within the past few decades. Yale, however, has not expanded its student housing, and this pits actual residents of New Haven against grad students for housing. There's a whole website of landlords and their properties, which is inaccessible to the general public, that will only rent out to Yale affiliates. New apartment buildings are cartering to this transient, wealthier class. Despite people saying that new builds will force the price down on older apartments, that is not what I've been seeing. Many of my friends, who live in old apartments that have not been renovated in at least a decade, have had their rent increase $400-$900 in the last few years. Local public schools have reported record numbers of students without stable homes because of the insane rent increases (as well as property taxes skyrocketing due to the city's need to compensate for what Yale owns and does not pay taxes on, and all of the new builds driving up property values). Yale is a corporation and it has no respect for the city of New Haven. It keeps taking and taking, and will occassionally throw the city some crumbs to keep the politicians in their pocket satiated.
@@whatevergrrl Damn, I didn't know all that.
Seeing that hunger games event thing at Yale has me like "okay maybe the purge but just so the poor kids who are stuck in student worker food service jobs making minimum wage get to hunt the rich kids for sport for once"
or just the rich people
Eat the rich
The purge would never work. Rich people would have access to procure better weapons and enhanced security. The poor would inevitably become the hunted.
@@nayonikadatta7222 isn't there a movie with that being the premise? The Hunt, I think
@@nayonikadatta7222that’s kind of what happens in the first purge movie
so yale sent me recruitment materials when i was starting four year. for the few scholarship/merit students who get in, its shockingly more affordable than the less-than-ivy league school i picked. im very confident that the money for this type of thing is coming entirely from donorship or material bribes from the legacy students' families. theres a big trend among expensive schools of throwing these events in the interest of convincing parents that the school is safe and enriching to send their perfect little angels to.
This is a good point
This makes so much sense. Thanks for sharing!
my application fees going to nepo babies partying at hogwarts
The "hogwarts" ones are British. No application fees
If i was there im def stealing. I paid for this food im going to take it home.
I'm off with the sushi cart like a runaway rickshaw 😂
Me eyeballing all the nice plates and silverware wondering how much I can squeeze in my purse
poor person behavior you would never make it into yale
@@machinedean womp womp
@@machinedean womp womp
Yale seems spooky
Nso fan spotted in the wild
"dont go in the basement...." ahh school
i have 3 friends attending oxford and can confirm their fanciness levels are off the charts, they literally have to dress up in formalwear to take their exams
Oh to hell with that. Nope nope nope lol I'm too much of a working class Scot to be bothered with doing all that dressing up 😂
mind you I regret sooooo much having not gone to uni. I love that I learned to be a baker but at the same time I also love knowledge for knowledge sake. Tempted to do some part time learning though soon, especially given I just turned 41 and they say it's never too late!
That's kinda fucked? Formal wear is the most uncomfortable clothes and as someone with sensory issues that would throw me off so freaking bad. Imagine you're trying to graduate summa cum laude and you miss out because having to wear a skirt with pantyhose or heels or a tie for a test ruined your GPA? I will never understand why they have to take it so far
@@Grace-er9ep Imagine you're trying to review court briefs or close an international deal but you miss out because you never learned how to tolerate wearing a tie.
@@SeekerGoldstone I see your half-windsor and raise you a bolo tie
@@SeekerGoldstone I see your half Windsor and raise you a bolo tie
I feel like a more sensical one of these things would be Mount Holyoke's "gracious dinner" where twice a year the dining hall has much fancier food and the dining hall workers get to show off fun food art (turkey shaped bread, an ice sculpture outside, stuff like that)
Its a bit overwhelming since they try to keep the days that it happens a secret, but any student can go
I was thinking about gracious dinner too! It was always insanely crowded though and you had to get in line 1-2 hours early to get a seat. I was never a huge fan because of that
we had similar things at my school for "harvest dinner" around october with lots of fancier food but never this elaborate lmao
My partner lives in New Haven and everyone that isn’t part of Yale thinks they’re a bunch of rich douchebags
Talking to someone that goes to an Ivy League school is legal torture.
@@yourwife1111that’s what I’m saying! They are being trained to be dull from day one. All they do is list off courses. Imagine someone went to a dinner, came back and just told you all about the food? Was all, there were braised lamb with gold flakes. That would be weird, and suggest it was really boring. If you’re having a good time you aren’t harping on about the food, your being like this guy said that, this gal did this, I met this awesome guy, this funny them etc. etc.
I feel this legit explains a lot. The dullest people I know lean on things OTHER PPL HAVE DONE. They name drop ppl who have done impressive things, harp on about food they ate that other ppl cooked, they have nothing to say for themselves. You put all those people in a room together and nobody is funny, nobody is interesting, so they have to ship in good food to give them something to lean on.
I don’t know these Yale people personally, it’s just the vibe I get from these videos.
@tubbolard6514 thought you’d like this update- I was visiting my partner in New Haven today and we were in one of the local bookstores/coffee shops, it was full of students bc finals season. I’m in line getting a book and a drink and behind me are two Yale students and I hear them talk for a solid three minutes about traveling to Switzerland every summer as a kid and their plans for this year to visit Hawaii and Ibiza in between doing their real estate internships. So yeah, they’re not wrong lmao
This feels like Ouran highschool host club in real life 😂😭
Damn these rich people!!!
Facts
but unfortunately without the homosexual supporting cast
At least the Host Club helped people
as someone who lives near New Haven, there is NO FUCKING WAY. that slogan is marketable as hell and i bet some students could take advantage of it for profit if they see it.
I go to a community college, we have uh,, vending machines? Yeah.
Sometimes my professor will bring things from the teachers lounge that the teachers were about to throw out to class and let’s us take as much as we want. God bless that man.
@@yourwife1111real my professor gave us some chicken tenders for the last day of class (and announced that he fucked up the final so it’s only worth 2% of the grade)
@@someonewhow professor
The difference between the Yale and Oxford dinners is *really* stark - feels a bit like a "new money vs old money" thing, like you kind of touched on in the video. Very interesting to see that difference in the uni's approaches to wealth.
You hit the nail on the head with the "new money vs old money" comparison. That's definitely what it looks like. Flashy and desperate to impress vs refined and traditional.
7:02 Btw in the UK, all universities cost the same, doesn’t matter if their oxbridge, Russell group, or a normal uni. So it is attainable, you just have to be smart. I know quite a few who went to Cambridge and they weren’t from rich families.
The videos of this dinner make me want to throw up. Not because it looks bad but because I feel the stench of money and out of touch privilege stinging my nostrils
The evil in that room could put any haunted house to shame
real, it sent chills up my spine. i feel like i'm living on a whole different planet than these people.
Nah seeing all that food massed into a big mountain is distateful too
How is wealth evil 💀💀💀💀💀
@@RyanGoslingthestonecoldsigma A celebration of wealth itself while it could have been better used is bit evil.
@@RyanGoslingthestonecoldsigma Wealthy people are predisposed to sociopathy due to everything they need to do to earn/maintain their position
The chefs for these extravagant college dinners have the opportunity to do something so hilarious.
Oh?
Do tell
Poison (:
Laxatives?
You know, a lot of the catering staff probably eat the left overs.
I love Yale serving this insanely luxurious shit and then working at a public college and our students literally struggling just to remain housed and using our food pantry in record amounts… not to mention adjunct faculty being on food stamps. This is absurd 😖
I’m from public school. I like ratio my meals and take advantage of any free meals I have.
This diner disgust me with its waste.
I wasn’t interested until you said it was a ball, I love balls
And who could forget that glorious ball smell
Same bro, same
Yeah balls like Barbie's
*Michael Scott voice* That's what she said!
I went to a small private college in Oregon and omg the events were not as fancy as these but I still felt like it was over the top and if they just cut down on these expenses they could lower the cost of attendance. They were also not transparent at all about how they spent their money, for example we found out one year that the college has 120k yearly contract with the New York Times so that we can get it for free. Every week without exception 99% of them ended up in the trash… so yeah I think at a lot of these “fancy” colleges and universities a lot of the money is not being spent very well. And then other sectors lack funding like our physics department had no money…
I just got my bachelors from oxford and I just have to add. Oxford formals like that one happen several times a week and for many of the students living with oxford prices, it’s the only way to get reasonably priced food, since the colleges tend to subsidise them heavily. If you are veggie like I am though, the food can be pretty poor
I went to Yale. They have a portion of the endowment set aside to always have ice cream or frozen yogurt in the dining halls but most of the dorm buildings don’t even have air conditioning.
Damn that shit is crazy
I mean im from brasil and for me a such expansive and well known univesity not having air con in their dorms is soo weird
@@analuizacamposdesouza4628Brasil?
@@analuizacamposdesouza4628 yeah and it’s not because they can’t afford it. In fact they install temporary units in the dorms for the rich kids who do summer programs.
Dartmouth has tea and cookies 🎉 Some of the dorms have AC, but they’re only turned on when alums come to town for reunions.
Honestly I wish instead of these expensive, lavish dinners/formals/balls that everyone who attends say “everyone should experience in their lifetime” we just had regular balls, but they’re like crowd funded. Pay a minimum to get into the ball and have access to the minimum amount of food (not a limit per say, just the amount and quality that will be provided for all, it’ll hopefully make sense) if enough people reserve. After the minimum reservation, you can donate to fund more cool stuff, like more lavish food, for the entire event. And you can’t reserve too soon and have to wait for those who’ve never gone before if you’ve reserved before, unless you have some sort of special case.
But idk, I’ve just always wanted to attend a ball…
This is likely crowd funded too. Most major university host functions based off alumni donations. A good portion of the food was probably sponsor generated.
There are events like that! For example, Ive been to a pirate cruise that had live music, snacks, and folks dressed up. Then a pagan convention nearby had 60 dolllar admisson and that included a masquerade ball!
Folks love to celebrate and be extravagant, and I wish ya luck finding neat stuff.
Unless i misunderstood your post in which i apologize.
@@be.A.bI doubt it, I think they probably just sell tickets to this, I went to a similar uni that had similar formal events (though not this grossly out of touch level imo) and these weren’t really sponsored, the people who went kinda just paid for it. They cost around £100 per person. Since this is in America, it could be more though, I’d guess maybe $200-250 per person.
They do have this. At least in the US, the most popular ones are all located along the coasts: San Francisco, LA, NYC, etc. For example, the annual fairy tale ball in LA is pretty famous, as is the Labyrinth ball. NYC has a ton of huge, themed parties; some of them are very fancy and regal, like a ball. There’s Regency balls, Victorian balls, Medieval balls, etc if you’re into the more historical side of things. Regency balls are HUGE right now with how popular Bridgerton has gotten. You just have to know where to look.
Going to a ball is a very niche interest - most people wouldn’t bother if they have to seek it out themselves and it’s not just handed to them. The Yale ball is more heavily attended because it’s tied to the university experience, like kinda like going to prom in high school. Even if you aren’t super into the experience, you’re more likely to go because it’s seen as a once in a lifetime experience tied to that specific time in your life.
Harry Potter meets Saltburn
saltburn is literally set at oxford
I made the dean's list at my community college and was anticipating this "banquet" and it was straight up store bought sweets and cool aid. I worked so hard and was so proud because prior to college i was a c student. When I found out what was my reward, I felt so let down. Now.... you're telling me these underclassmen get a fucking Dinner for existing?????
For anyone wondering why that person said everyone should experience an Oxford university formal dinner at least once in your life, it's because you can pay to dine at some of the colleges outside of term time, usually as a tourist activity. Two of my sisters worked at Christ Church (one of the richest colleges) serving in the Great Hall and the banquets were very popular with rich American tourists. My parents also went to Christ Church as students and they claim that the food there is the best in the whole university.
My sibling went to Christ church and they said the daily food was good, but not amazing. I went to their graduation dinner and it was ok. I've had better tbh. I'm not even some rich snob, I'm unemployed and living with my mum, I just wasn't overly impressed by the food. It was more 'kinda posh local restaurant' than 'the most influential university in the world'
@@_ikako_ tbf, my parents went to Christ Church over 20 years ago so it's very possible that the quality has deteriorated over time. The last few times they've eaten there was for their gaudies which the college invests a lot more effort in compared to the everyday meals.
"[very fancy], very clearly so" he tells me, and I go "hmmm yes, yes, very clearly" in total agreement while simultaniously having no litmus test for fancy except a Reba McEntire song
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bro im a student at a uni in eastern europe my mind cannot even fathom this. when i think of all that wasted food and money it literally hurts like,,, excuse me THE LOBSTER CART?? WHY?? my uni doesn't even have a cafeteria and its baerly holding together lmaooooo
Its interesting that deer is a fancy dish. I think everyone from places like Wisconsin or Michigan has that one friend with deer in their freezer lol.
yeah in the uk (the parts ive lived in at least), local villages just have a deer roasting at all of their events, its just what you have at group events of any size
Yeah in Canada deer are a rural thing. It's illegal to sell it and I have heard alot of stories of eating almost exclusively game meat in hard times. Once my aunt and her family ate a dead worm infested deer because the doctor said it was safe to eat as long as they pick out the worms. Definitely not high class....
Can confirm deer meat is pretty common in the upper midwest. Deer steaks, ground deer, deer jerky, deer sausages...
fr, come to the rez we have lots of deer moose elk and bison and whatever else is around
Not for these people. FYI, the students who are attending this “ball” AREN’T the Yale students who are struggling to pay to go and on loans and scholarships but the alumnus children and/or the well off students who actually pay to go there. You have to pay for this “tradition” by the way.
evil pinely is rocking that graduation cap
I think you mean "education hat." 😉😉😉 (Love that so much.)
I had a panda Express at my campus so I get this
So you basically went to Yale!
We have a Taco Bell. Definitely the same lol.
It's funny to me how they have this big fancy dinner but can't even have alcohol at it.
It’s for freshman, they aren’t old enough to drink
@@theonoelle that was my point. Almost everywhere else the drinking age is lower. But there in america those people can drive, be in college and have jobs, yet they can't have alcohol.
If you want more of a fair comparison between the Yale Holiday Meal and Oxford /Cambridge (aka 'Oxbridge'), I would say look into the May Balls. The Formal Dinners are regular occurences throughout the term and tend to be a sit-down meal, whereas the Balls are a once per year event (some college do it every other year). Each college does it slightly differently, but we're talking fairgrounds, hot air balloons, live performers, dancing, food tents everywhere, a room dedicated to cheese... The Balls tend to be very extravagent, so more akin to the Yale Dinner.
“Thats what fanciness is all about, people singing in a dead language” - Pinley 2024
It's interesting the cultural difference in the food between the US and UK. In the UK deer is fancy because only nobility were allowed to hunt, historically. In the US, venison is hick food
This isn’t super related, but my small town is fully of MANY people in the poverty line, nearly every building will give out free food to people on Christmas and Thanksgiving. The library, The church, one of the corner stores (usually a corn dog and a fountain soda, but still very generous of them to do since they do it whenever there’s any kind of parade in town too), and the food bank all give free dinners out, relatively great ones too.
i mean... not to brag but one time our college's catering thing brought little boxed lunches to our recreation room... a sandwich AND an apple AND chips.... so i know a thing or two about fancy college dinners
I went to a school that wasn't an ivy league but well known enough and like, nothing like this happened. Our dining halls were pretty good (except the freshman one where getting food poisoning is pretty much inevitable) but nothing to write home about. But don't worry the president of my college found new ways to be the worst, it happens everywhere
Like 50% of students at Yale are on scholarship and the other half can afford it. I think they are alright.
FYI, the students attending this “ball” at Yale aren’t the scholarship kid. You have to buy tickets to this “student tradition”
I mean the reason you go to an Ivy league (or Oxford/Cambridge/College of London) is for networking opportunities. The class is important but it is pretty well known that a C at Harvard is an F at most Universities.
Lol, idk that much about the American universities but the top British universities actually take academics seriously. The way it works at Oxford/Cambridge is that you're ranked against all the other people in your year to determine your class of degree. That means all the super academically strong people are ranked against each other. People getting a 3rd or a 2:2 at Cambridge/Oxford likely could have gotten a 2:1 or even a 1st at other English universities.
@@imogenklark2798 you are correct. I should also add that a Master's at an Ivy League is the real deal but the bachelor's is more specifically what I was talking about. Which overall makes sense because at the bachelor's level there isn't that much more knowledge available between private and public universities but Masters is where more research is required.
yeah my mother went to a fairly prestigious university in the uk and they were only allowed to give out 3(i think) firsts per subject per year, so even though she was at first level and would have gotten one at other universities, because she was at a high level university, she was given a lower grade
@@datoneweirdo2524That is a bit odd imo, if many people are actually first level it should be recognized.
@@notapplicable6985 that's how everything works in England. Every exam we take is graded based on everyone else in our cohort, not the actual work itself. for example, in A-Levels (our high school leavers exams) some years you have to get 200/300 on exams to get an A*, but if everyone is very strong that year then that score might only get you a B.
hate how they made the chefs haul out the food on platters like they were slaves carrying their king 🤢
If you want a school that looks like Hogwarts, the University of Pittsburgh’s cathedral of learning is cool as hell
SHOUTOUT CATHY😊
The great hall in Harry Potter was filmed at Oxford Uni (Christ Church College) and Durham Uni (University College) in most films. So those are kinda what it looks like. They both have other nearby buildings (eg New College in Oxford or Durham Cathedral) where other parts were filmed at as well. I think Pinely lives in the UK so those are slightly easier to visit.
I got into Pitt but I couldn't afford it lol
All my uni got me was mental illness
I'm Yaleing and Screaming about this story my good man Evil Pinely!!!!!!!
Hahaha yes!!!
As a high achieving student not from a nepo background, I was really close to getting into Yale and being rejected was one of the most painful experiences of my life but also ended up being one of the best things that's happened to me.
Sadly I didn't go to higher education to learn the difference between turf and earth
I don’t go to Columbia, but I’m guessssiiinnnggg that since usually surf and turf refers to seafood + meat, then the “earth” part likely differentiates vegetarian/vegan options.
Wouldnt it be nice if instead of stupid lavish balls, they did public service? Provide food for the people experiencing food instability? I went to a jesuit school for college (im not religious, they just had an awesome department for my major) and that's what we did
Every normal college does outreaches. It's just the elite who shame us for not donating our pennies, while they sit on a mountain of gold.
my community college might hit a 3 on the fancy scale but the house chips are so fire
SUA
This would be a great final project for senior culinary students
"Everyone should experience an Oxford diner at least once in their life" I beg to differ kind sir, I have come to the conclusion that in fact the opposite is true. That instead, everyone should experience waking up in a jail cell with the realization that nobody is coming to get you out. Forces you to do some emergency self reflection. It also really makes you appreciate the small things you have/had.
Honestly if we could wave a magic wand like that, I’d rather everyone get to experience something wonderful. Make it that there IS always someone coming to help. To feel supported. Not that the world is at battle against each other.
I had a rough childhood. Because of that, I appreciate all the good in my life. Nothing will make you appreciate freedom like spending years under the thumb of evil people.
12:13 bro why was the dancing better at my year 6 dinner dance that was held in the local public library… we may have been disgusting sticky 11 and 12 year olds but we knew how to waltz…
Like the little jumps?? What are they DOING 😭😭😭
The Oxford one looks like old school French cuisine, the thing you find either at your aunt Christmas party or at a restaurant in the countryside that have been open for so long and ppl are mostly going for Sunday lunch with grandma. (source: im French)
Looks very British Sunday lunch lol, I’m not sure how different that is to French Sunday lunch
from the Saints John's School for Good Boys and Girls to Yale to Congress and the head of tech companies. eyes wide shut type shit
...which St.Johns?
Yeah . . . Which St. John’s? 🤫
2:00 Not gonna lie it looks so tacky. I’ve been to fancy uni dinners and you pay separately to attend them and they cost quite a bit of money but they are fancy fancy, in some of the most expensive restaurants in London (I study and was born in London so I’m used to spending lots on food). I’d be so disappointed. I get invited to posh parties with my parents business partners, and if I ever saw this I think that would be the end of any partnership.
hi i'm brazilian and even going to a p fancy private university ive never witnessed anything even remotely close to that. afaik first years in any university just get together for beers and throwing mud at each other and thats IT
I mean, considering some of the stupid shit my college used tuition money on, using it to give your 1st year students a special party that they will remember their whole lives seems like a great thing.
You know what, if I was going to Yale, this is lowkey exactly what I would expect out of my experience. If I'm smart enough to go to the rich person school, I want to feel rich.
I went to a private (just below ivy ) university and we had stuff like this too.
The problem that a lot of students on campus had was that we had no vote in how the hundreds of thousands of “activity budget” were spent.
So while many first years didn’t have proper housing (housed at random apartments, or in dorms with outdated heated and cooling ) we would have outrageous parties with bouncy houses, catering, staff etc.
many students working for the school were forced to work for free or for below minimum wage, while the school blew their budget on showy displays like this one.
Private colleges are a huge scam unfortunately:(
My cousin went to the US to Yale on a student green card with full board scholarship and I am FUMING because she is a complete recluse (and that's coming from a recluse myself) and definitely decided to not go to this event on her first year because she wanted to study.
I would like to eat the dessert carts too. The desserts themselves, though, not the actual carts.
Love that you specified 😂
1:20 To be fair, the reason universities keep getting so expensive is because of these kind of extra curriculum activities the schools offer (at least from what I understood)
I think it's ok if it's like oxford where its funded by tickets but the yale one is just insanity.
Suggestion:
Please draw a giant isopod on your cardboard box background please.
Anyways this is just like the great gatsby
FYI, university in the UK all cost the same whether it’s a normal, no name that no one knows of outside of it or Oxford or Cambridge.
And scholarships to these schools aren’t based solely on financial hardship OR academic achievements so it’s quite literally possible for everyone to go to Oxford or Cambridge or another amazing Uni if you really wanted it and worked for it.
You can also experience an Oxford dinner outside of being a student which is why she says “everyone should experience it” because everyone can if they wanted too.
I've never seen so much unseasoned shrimp in my life
My school at events like this (on a much smaller scale) a few times a year for the whole campus. It was called gracious dinner and it was meant to be a time for the students to reflect on the things they were grateful for. Most of the leftovers are either given to the staff/dining workers or show up the next day
This looks like such a pathetic show of "Royalty." Aka overconsumption and waste masquerading as rich celebration. Type of people to virtue signal about homelessness yet waste 100,000s on this.
We had a pizza party at my freshman photography class once 🙂
Cool for them, my school gave us literally a single free waffle if you showed up to it’s event
My shellfish allergy is so severe I think I need my epipen just watching this.
Why are you guys so surprise by how an ivy league school can host an extravagant dinner?
that’s what i’m saying😭
I don’t get why people are shitting on an OTT tradition. The amount of work that you have to put in to get into a place like that, and the amount of work you have to put in to graduate from a place like that is nuts. So let them have some ridiculous fun? And before anybody @s me I was on full scholarship at Dartmouth. The education and traditions were both bonkers. I always looked forward to a rare event of fun on the endowment’s dime.
As a nutmegger, we disown yale from being a part of our state.
Yale built Connecticut but go awf
Imagine making fake snow in a state that gets real snow
I’ve lived in boston my whole life and this is the first time I’ve heard that people from Connecticut call themselves that
@joearnold6881 i literally live there and i've only heard us referred to as nutmeggers once lmfaoo
but also yea fuck yale
at my university in sweden we have dinners almost every week but they're all organized by student unions! i think there's one (1) fancy, Nobel-themed, dinner a year. the normal ones are always themed and you're supposed to either come dressed up and/or sporting your union garb (usually a colorful boilersuit). the food can be made at a campus kitchen but often it's catered from a local restaurant. there's a lot of weird traditions around it, but generally it's very messy and fun, with lots of drunken singing and linedance!
This is what I think Evil Rich Geniuses host to secretly murder Bruce Wayne.
I was feeling less hunger games and more Cartoon Food at the Yale dinner, like the giant chicken legs that are basically "Anime/Flintstones Meat"
It felt like watching a medieval highborn party while you are in the crowd of peasants hoping to get the crumbs like back then
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Me being Catholic: 🙏🏾
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The Oxford formal dinners are something that are very college dependent (it's a collegiate university), but at my college they usually happen once or twice a week (there are set days), and they aren't explicitly black tie or anything but it is relatively fancy. We have the latin prayers and formal things like that. Probably the event most comparable to the Yale dinner would be one of the college balls, except they are not something included in your tuition, they are independent things that you pay for out of your own pocket (but we don't pay completely ridiculous amounts of tuition like at comparable American unis).
My friend went to Keble College in Oxford and I went to a formal dinner there when I visited her. It’s routine for students to attend, and it’s also common to have non-students such as myself, who had to pay to be there. It was very heavy on dignified ceremony. Standing at the beginning, reciting Latin, etc. The food was okay but not spectacular. There were three or four courses. There was a soup course and a meat course, and probably dessert. (Sorry, it was in 2004 and I didn’t take notes on everything since I didn’t know I would be writing about it in a RUclips comment 20 years later.) It was definitely not vulgar or extravagant like the Yale event seems to be.
The most famous Oxford holiday dinner tradition is the Boar’s Head dinner at (I think) Queen’s College. I don’t think you mentioned that one.
My community college served powdered scrambled eggs n microwave pancakes/ sausage for Christmas breakfast ❤
God what the absolute hell, as a poor Canadian, my university has never had a dinner, let alone a fancy one for students 😂😂
I went to a small liberal arts school and we had an annual dinner called lobsterfest. Definitely not fancy more similar to Columbia. Mostly for students to learn about clubs and activities on campus and socialize. We had the option of lobster, steak or mushroom steak and a bunch of sides. Casual traditional dinner are so much more fun!
Man what the hell my collage degree is worthless, we didn't have no fancy dinners and we didn't even throw the gox damn hat at the end. Higher education is literally a scam
me happily taking 1 free cupcake in four years from public university that still cost more than I want to think about, and that cupcake only bc the subcampus of my business minor was ritzier
domcampus I mean, alphacampus, sorry
Adding onto the comments as another person from near New Haven, Yale is indeed a blight on the local community! :)
My uncle coached running at Yale and I still can’t believe that this is a real place. Like wtf this isn’t what college is about why are people so over the top about random and pointless bullshit
The funny part is how colleges like Yale especially have endowments large enough that they don’t even close to need to charge for tuition. And they can afford stuff like this but charge you for life anyway.
0:57 You know it's for rich people when there are people working as furniture
commenting late and halfway thru bc i went to cambridge uni and it also radicalised me! they did formal dinners pretty regularly but those were more lowkey (tho still extremely posh). more like this were the may balls -- once a year and not just for first years, but unbelievably extravagant parties with tons of booze and food and little attractions from comedians to bumper cars. legitimately wild and extremely odd, yet somehow both more and less extravagant than this. EDIT immediately after i commented saw the oxford bit, yeah fully that's the regular formals. caviar and stuff innit
I went to Yale. All of us who didn't grow up insanely rich thought this stuff was ridiculous too. The Yale Corporation is stealing hundreds of millions of dollars every year from the city of New Haven, Yale police officers are brutalizing peacefully protesting students and kicking unhoused people off the streets and into shelters they have to PAY FOR, and Yale's leadership continues to ignore and actively suppress students and community members fighting for them to divest from fossil fuels and genocide and reinvest into New Haven. I am immensely grateful for the wonderful students and faculty members I met during my time at Yale, but the institution itself, like all powerful institutions in this country, is focused much more on generating shareholder profit at all costs than serving its students or its community.
This was not the video I thought would distract me from mounting funeral costs
Yale is extravagant, gaudy even, not fancy.
Just an early way of setting them on the elite path, not for us normals.
the oxford one seems pretty bomb and way more tame than the boyle manor mission from dishonored thats going on in yale
Deer is pretty gamey, it upsets my stomach but it tastes so good on the grill. We live in an area where the deer population is way too large because humans drove out most of their natural predators so there are a lot of hunters here. My college feeds us sandwiches and potato salads on special days :0
It’s kinda grotesque lol. Idk what it is but watching those carts of food roll out & people taking selfies with giant turkey legs made my stomach turn.
all those germs are actually killing me