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Nathan Chen

Now let's see which supersleuth will be the first to figure out which building they are standing in front of.
 
Nathan spotted at the Champions rink today.
https://twitter.com/CITYSEAVEY/status/1034888406218801154

Team USA were asked about their favorite thing they did this summer.
http://www.usfigureskatingfanzone.com/uncategorized/team-usa-answers-favorite-part-of-summer/
Nathan:
“I’ve been able to travel to Japan and throughout the U.S., because I did Stars on Ice. So we went across the U.S. and I got to meet a whole bunch of new little skaters and obviously perform with an amazing cast of skaters—as well as travel to Japan four times this summer for shows. It’s been a very busy summer, but I’ve had a great time.”
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Kind of cute that Romain and Mariah added their names in Japanese to their IG pages. Wonder if they can get Nathan to do it, too. I'm curious as to who helped them because they used a somewhat weird way of transliterating their names. A native speaker like Marin probably wouldn't write them that way.
https://www.instagram.com/romainponsart/
https://www.instagram.com/mariahsk8rbell/
 
Haha, forgot to count Nathan, my bad. Thanks oatmella for the correction.

Lynn’s article from Champ Camp is out. Too bad Yale is still not following other ivies’s suit in helping students athletes to register the classes they want or have any academic free period. Fingers crossed Nathan got into all the classes so that he wouldn’t need too much schedule change.

From Champs Camp 2018: Nathan Chen Packs His Bags for New Haven

http://www.usfigureskatingfanzone.c...018-nathan-chen-packs-his-bags-for-new-haven/
 
bonita said:
Lynn’s article from Champ Camp is out. Too bad Yale is still not following other ivies’s suit in helping students athletes to register the classes they want or have any academic free period. Fingers crossed Nathan got into all the classes so that he wouldn’t need too much schedule change. Why make the life of student athletes so hard, Yale???

From Champs Camp 2018: Nathan Chen Packs His Bags for New Haven

http://www.usfigureskatingfanzone.c...018-nathan-chen-packs-his-bags-for-new-haven/
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Well, technically Nathan is supposed to be entered into the lottery for classes like other students, but I wouldn't be surprised if he got "lucky" and received all the classes he wanted. After all, it sounds like they already set aside time for him at the on campus rink so it would really suck if there was a class schedule conflict. ;)
 
I think Nathan will get ‘lucky’ in the lottery!

Still interested in stats major ... ‘statistics is a very good subject’ according to Raf, who Nathan tagged as ‘itme’ in his instagram repost from yesterday :)

Caravan performed by Boston Brass?
 
bonita said:
Too bad Yale is still not following other ivies’s suit in helping students athletes to register the classes they want or have any academic free period. Fingers crossed Nathan got into all the classes so that he wouldn’t need too much schedule change. Why make the life of student athletes so hard, Yale???
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I'm not sure what you mean by "free period". College isn't like high school, with set school days that extend from a fixed time in the morning to a fixed time in the afternoon. Classes meet anywhere from one to five times a week, depending on the subject and the level: a senior-level seminar might meet one day a week for 2.5 hours, a junior-level seminar might meet for 75 minutes twice a week, a sophomore-level lecture might meet for 50 minutes twice a week with a discussion section for another 50 minutes, a freshman-level language class might meet five days a week for 50 minutes. Of most concern for Nathan, many science courses will be taught as lectures that meet two or three times a week, with an associated lab that will require students to conduct experiments in a laboratory for a block of several hours. In some courses, lab is an essential part of learning the course content, so you can't simply decide not to take it (or to excuse a student from it). Many science majors will require a certain number of lab courses, and it isn't fair--or an accurate reflection of what the student has accomplished--to waive that requirement.

It's each student's responsibility, in consultation with his advisors, to create a class schedule that is practical (no overlapping courses, no days that are so full that you can't complete all the reading or assignments, no conflicts with other obligations), fulfills requirements toward the student's major and graduation, and allows the student to pursue his interests and explore new subjects. That doesn't make the life of student athletes hard. On the contrary, it gives them more freedom to take their training and competition needs into account when they create their schedules.
 
ribbit said:
I'm not sure what you mean by "free period". College isn't like high school, with set school days that extend from a fixed time in the morning to a fixed time in the afternoon. Classes meet anywhere from one to five times a week, depending on the subject and the level: a senior-level seminar might meet one day a week for 2.5 hours, a junior-level seminar might meet for 75 minutes twice a week
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Thanks a lot for the information, ribbit.

This is what I am talking about, from an article of Yale Daily back in 2011, which has been posted in this FF before.

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2011/09/23/up-close-students-or-athletes/

"Yale does not offer additional tutors for athletes, nor a student athlete preregistration program. It also does not have a period free from academics."

"Both Princeton and Cornell offer a free academic time period between 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. during which time no classes may be held, according to Wlosinski and Diane McKay, associate dean at Princeton. Those three hours allow all students to partake in extracurricular activities without sacrificing their academics.

It did talk about some help Yale offers "There are scheduling adjustments within the Yale Athletic Department to help accommodate for class time, including having an off day during the week so that students can take labs and afternoon seminars"

I was hoping there might be improvement from 2011. But apparently Yale has its own philosophies and value systems, which I respect, but couldn't help feel little bit disappointed even though I know Nathan would be probably "lucky" in getting into classes he wants. Anyway, it is just my reaction when I first read Lynn's article. Whatever situation he is in, Nathan would figure out his way of dealing with it.
 
Seems that Nathan will have a fair amount of lab time if he wants to fulfill pre-med requirements, even if he’s not a science major.

Otherwise, I don’t think him having a class schedule that works for his skating should be a problem? At least I hope not.

But other than skating, there’s off-ice, gym, PT ... a lot to fit in. And obviously studying, papers, problem sets, etc.
 
I suspect he'll take his lab courses during his jr and sr years after Beijing. Or possibly during the summer.

The Champions rink is good in that they have a pretty comprehensive facility including an onsite fitness center so he can take care of the off-ice warmup and cool down, among other things. I don't know if the other area rinks are as well equipped.
 
sheetz said:
I suspect he'll take his lab courses during his jr and sr years after Beijing. Or possibly during the summer.

The Champions rink is good in that they have a pretty comprehensive facility including an onsite fitness center so he can take care of the off-ice warmup and cool down, among other things. I don't know if the other area rinks are as well equipped.
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Is he supposed to go back Socal to train with Raf during the summer? He was talking about 4 months with Raf in that LA times interview. I am thinking he would probably be fulfilling most of the lab requirements after Beijing.


To give Yale some credit, I like the "including having an off day during the week" option so that he might go to Montreal on Friday or come back on Monday whichever fits into his schedule.
 
bonita said:
Is he supposed to go back Socal to train with Raf during the summer? He was talking about 4 months with Raf in that LA times interview. I am thinking he would probably be fulfilling most of the lab requirements after Beijing.
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Probably, but the summer courses are only one month long so he could conceivably fit one in.
 
bonita said:
Is he supposed to go back Socal to train with Raf during the summer? He was talking about 4 months with Raf in that LA times interview. I am thinking he would probably be fulfilling most of the lab requirements after Beijing.


To give Yale some credit, I like the "including having an off day during the week" option so that he might go to Montreal on Friday or come back on Monday whichever fits into his schedule.
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Actually, I read that as the Athletic department giving the athletes a day off from their sport so they can fit afternoon classes and labs.

"There are scheduling adjustments within the Yale Athletic Department to help accommodate for class time, including having an off day during the week so that students can take labs and afternoon seminars
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Just came back from a long vacation. Thank you all for the updates and links:luv17: can’t wait to see Nathan starting his new season!
 
SnowWhite said:
Actually, I read that as the Athletic department giving the athletes a day off from their sport so they can fit afternoon classes and labs.
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Yes, that's what it means.

Since figure skating is not a NCAA-sanctioned sport and Nathan is not a Yale athlete, he is free to make his own training schedule as well as his own course schedule. If, for example, it turns out that he has better access to ice time during the mornings, he can choose courses that meet later in the afternoon or even the early evening instead, an option that would not be open to him if he were at a school where classes had to finish by a set time.

(Plenty of non-athletes also choose to take only courses that meet after a certain time for all sorts of other reasons, of course...:biggrin:)
 
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