Life in the Summer Colleges

Whether you're returning or joining us for the first time, this page provides essential details about living in the Summer Colleges. 

Much of the information here is specific to 2024, and updates for the 2025 season will be made available in Spring 2025.

Here, you'll find everything you need to know about housing, amenities, policies, and more to ensure your summer experience is comfortable and enjoyable. Make sure to check back for any important updates or changes as your stay approaches.

On-Call

For any questions or issues during your time on-campus, please contact the Summer Colleges on-call number: (203) 436-8877. Please note that this number is not monitored except when students are in residence.

Summer Activities

The Residential Life staff curate an exciting collection of activities on-campus and trips around the state and region. You can find out more about the Summer 2024 activities at our Summer Colleges Activities page.

The Summer Colleges

If you are residing on campus, you will be housed in either Ezra Stiles, Grace Hopper, or Morse Colleges. Each has its own courtyard, dining hall, common room, library, and laundry facilities. Room assignments are given upon check-in at the Summer Colleges. You will most likely be housed in a suite with a common room and shared bath or a stand-alone single with a shared bath.

Dining in the Summer Colleges

Meals featuring a wide variety of hot and cold food are served during three meal periods per day in the college dining halls. Students living on campus have a full 21-meal-per-week contract as part of the room and board package, which provides breakfast, lunch (or brunch) and dinner seven days a week.

The Morse College dining hall is open all summer. The Ezra Stiles College dining hall will open in late June.

• Breakfast: 7:30am - 10:30am
• Lunch: 11:30am - 2:00pm
• Dinner: 5:00pm - 7:30pm

[bulb] You can check out the dining menus on Yale Hospitality's website.

Summer Colleges Furnishings

Rooms in Yale's residential colleges are simply furnished. Each room contains:

• twin extra-long bed, mattress
• desk, chair, bureau

Students may also find furniture belonging to previous and returning occupants, which must not be removed or damaged.

Students should​ bring or purchase in New Haven:

• sheets (twin extra-long), blanket, pillow, & towels
• a desk lamp and a fan (if desired)
• a trash bin

[bulb] Household items are available for purchase at the Yale Bookstore. Fans may be used. Yale residential college rooms are not centrally air-conditioned and portable air conditioners are not permitted. Fire codes prohibit halogen lamps.

Laundry rooms with pay washers and dryers are located in the basement of each residential college.  

Mail and Packages

You can find more information about receiving mail and packages at Yale Summer Session here. Yale Summer Session student mail.

Printing

Student printing is available on Yale's campus. There are printers in each of the libraries in the Summer Colleges. More printer locations are available around campus.

Cell Phones

Yale Summer Session residential students are required to have a working mobile telephone with an active service plan in the United States. Students must be reachable at a phone number, not internet applications which require a data connection, such as WhatsApp, WeChat, or Messenger. Students are advised to bring a cell phone with them or to purchase one upon arrival in New Haven. Students will have access to the on-campus Wi-Fi network.

Yale's Office of International Students and Scholars has an informational page about American cell phones and service plans for international students.

New Haven

New Haven is a vibrant city in the Northeastern region of the United States, about halfway between New York City and Boston.