Thinking about schools as possible tourist attractions seems to be in line with the marketing and school “branding” talk that I思考學校盡可能旅遊景點，似乎都必須符合營銷和學校的"品牌"講，我 try to discourage試圖勸阻 . 。 However, any Harvard student would counter that it’s just a fair description of their state of affairs: sit down in a lawn chair with a notepad and a sharp eye for an afternoon and you’ll see an endless stream of tourists, all constantly rubbing the same toe of the John Harvard statue (to which drunk students forever do unspeakable things).然而，任何哈佛大學學生將計數器，它的只是一個公平的描述哪個國家是他們的事務：坐下來，在草坪上的椅子上記事本和銳利眼睛為一個下午，你會看到絡繹不絕的觀光客，都不斷搓同一趾的約翰哈佛雕像（其中喝醉學生永遠做不可告人的東西） 。

So it’sa fair question and reasonable point of comparison.所以這是公平的問題，並合理點的比較。 How is it at Yale?它怎麼在耶魯？ Can you walk to class without tripping over roving bands of camera-wielding tourists, gawking at undergrads like they’re all in a richly furnished zoo enclosure? Is Yale a tourist attraction?你能走路，以一流的，沒有絆倒巡迴帶相機揮舞著遊客， gawking在undergrads一樣，他們都是在一個豐富的家具動物園圈地？ 耶魯是一個旅遊景點？

In a word, no.總的來說， 沒有。

It’s true that old campus has a fair number of tour groups circulating in lazily predictable routes, and that they can be spotted on a couple other hotspots on the campus tours which leave from the admissions office.它的真實，老校區有相當數量的旅行團流通懶惰可預見的路線，並可以發現一對夫婦，其他熱點對校園的旅行團離開，由招生辦公室。 But the individual group sizes, and the overall volume, is very manageable.但個別組大小，以及整體體積，是非常便於管理。 We do not have people trying endlessly to sneak into our dorms or libraries–the libraries, in fact, don’t require ID to enter the main areas.我們沒有人試圖無休止地潛入我們的宿舍或圖書館-圖書館，事實上，並不需要身份證進入的主要領域。

Compare with Harvard where the library has regular ‘incidents’ when people try to sneak in just to take a look… or so I am told.比較哈佛的地方圖書館經常'事件'的時候，人們都試圖偷渡只是為了要看看… …或者這麼告訴我。 The libraries at a lot of schools have this nice level of access for prospective students, so it’s not that Yale is special about it, it’s just a nice benefit from the medium-high volume rather than the stupidly-crowded nature of certain other schools.圖書館有很多學校有這樣好的水平准入準學生，因此他並沒有說，耶魯大學是特殊的話，那只是尼斯受惠於中高量而不是傻-擁擠的性質certain other schools.

Sometimes I like to join the tour groups silently, listen for a minute, then leave.有時候，我想加入旅遊團，默默地，聽上一分鐘，然後離開。 This seems to really confuse prospective students, and leaves me sad that the tour guides are always giving the same semi-duplicitous accounts of Yale lore; still, it helps me stay in touch with the prospective student mindset and is good for blogging.這似乎真的有意混淆學生，並給我留下很可悲的導遊總是給予相同的半兩面派帳戶耶魯知識;仍在，它幫助我保持聯繫，與準學生的心態和良好的，是為志。 It seems that sometimes, the worse the weather is, the better the tour, as guides work harder to make Yale appealing aside from the good weather and usual cheer of New Haven.

There are busloads of Chinese tourists / visitors who come to Yale, foreign-language tour guides leading them around campus–Yale is actually much better known in China than Harvard, a lot of the time, but when I just stopped at Harvard over spring break I did see a nice number of well-heeled Hong Kong students heading around on a big tour group.有busloads的中國遊客/訪客來耶魯，外文導遊帶領他們靠近校園-耶魯大學其實是好得多眾所周知，在中國比美國哈佛大學，有很多的時間，但是當我剛停在哈佛超過春假我確實看過，奪冠次數的富裕階層的香港學生標題圍繞一個大旅行團。

If you stopped reading after my “in a word” explanation, and skipped to the end, don’t worry!如果你停止閱讀後，我的"一言"的解釋，並隔代到結束，不用擔心！ You didn’t miss any super-insightful truths about Yale.你沒有錯過任何超精闢的真理約耶魯大學。 There is a reasonable level of outsider interest, but because they don’t go inside residential college gates it’s not much of a problem at all.有一個合理的水平，外行的興趣，而是因為他們不進去住宅學院蓋茨這不是太大的問題。

Of course, I think Yale is quite worthy of being a tourist attraction… : )當然，我認為耶魯是很值得作為一個旅遊景點… ： ）

Headline part-inspired by 標題部分靈感 Snively @ MIT blogs snively @麻省理工學院博客 , but mostly by the exact question asked by my bff Greta when visiting her this past week at Harvard. ，但大多是由精確的問題，問我bff葛麗泰訪問的時候，她過去一周，在哈佛大學。