Major: Shut up and give me some time to make up my mind (undecided)

Other clubs: Community Health Educators, The Roosevelt Institution, The American Red Cross at Yale, Intramurals (soccer, football, basketball, volleyball); Also, The Vegetarians Disgust Me Counseling Group, The Wilson Bull Fan Club, and The Ana La Uhib Medinat New York Besubub Al-Izdihaam Wa At-taqs Associated Press

Why I became a FOOT Leader: FOOT is an amazing way to meet a great group of fellow freshmen before being confronted with campus life. The network of friends that you make will be extremely valuable both in the first days of getting back to campus, when your FOOT friends provide a much appreciated comfortable social scene right of the bat, as well as throughout your time at Yale. In addition, you get two FOOT leaders that are not only really, really cool, but that also can give you advice about college and address any questions or anxieties that you may have about anything at all related to your upcoming Yale experience. They also serve as a pair of upperclassmen that you automatically have to help you with concerns thorughout your freshman year and beyond. If you ask me, the outdoors is the best place to meet new people and build friendships, and the beautiful scenery and the fun of backpacking are the cherry on top of it all.

Major: Psychology

Other clubs: JE College Council, JE IMs, Yale Women's Rugby, Leisure League, CitySeed Organic Markets

Favorite FOOT Moment: On my first trip as a leader, (VT2), my co-leader (the wonderful Jeff Warren) and I had a fancy dress party for one of our dinners. We had our FOOTies dress up as: a drunk French mime, Napoleon, Roger Ebert, Bill Clinton, a box of Kleenex, Ernest Shakleton, Darth Vader, Jet Li, and we dressed up as Batman and Neil Armstrong. And, we were Ninjas for the whole trip. Ninjas, ninjas!!!

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Major: Chemistry

Other clubs: Yale Sailing, Art Stars.

Favorite FOOT Moment: Throwing rocks at chipmunks. Jumping off a big rock into the a river in the Whites. Watching Kai teach us how to wipe with sticks. Walking along a ridge during a break in the middle of a rainstorm and looking out at the fog-covered landscape.

Why She's a FOOT Leader: I had so much fun helping to eat all the food on my freshman trip that I wanted to be able to do it again with new fresman! Highlights were finishing off the honey and later the salsa, then licking a rock because it was so spicy (see photos). There's nothing better than sitting on around laughing through all of dinner, because really, everything is funnier in the woods.

Major: Political Science

Other clubs: Dramat, Berkeley College Council, Students for Clean Elections, Yale Drama Coalition

Favorite FOOT Moment: I love getting into camp early after a particularly grueling day, then chilling out and eating tortillas and honey. Photo attached

Major: Political Science

Other clubs: Asian American Students Alliance (Co-Moderator), Yale College Council (Berkeley representative), Yale Economic Review (Director of Business Management), Berkeley Rooming Committee.

Five amazing feelings associated with FOOT, in no particular order:
1. Synchronizing your sleeping schedule with the sun
2. Laughing around the campfire at night, sipping hot cocoa from your nalgene
3. Cooking/eating your own meals (EVERYTHING tastes better on FOOT)
4. The sense of accomplishment you get looking down from the peak of the mountain you've just climbed
5. Learning the true meaning of freedom: also known as pooping in the woods

Major: History of Science, History of Medicine

Other clubs: Peer Health Educators, Yale Daily News, Club Squash

The Why of FOOT: Community. Wilderness. Gortex. Cheese. Oh yeah, and Mory's cups with other FOOT leaders while watching William Niebling demonstrate Cilla's famous "Quarter in the Butt" game. Hands down, FOOT is the best thing I've done at Yale.

Major: Humanities

Other clubs: Tangled Up In Blue, The Yale Record, Yale Student Environmental Coalition, Saybrook Orchestra

Why she is a FOOT Leader: When Anny was a young and impressionable girl of 17 her mom convinced her to sign up for a 4-day FOOT trip on the pretense that she couldn't survive a whole 6 days without a shower. Needless to say the plan backfired, given the "kind of ridiculously amazing" time Anny had on her trip, which inspired her to become a FOOT leader and log more weeks in the wilderness than anyone familiar with her fondness for hot showers, herringbone-bedecked stilettos and refrigerated beverages would have ever thought possible. And one day Anny woke up and thought, what if I spent a whole semester in the wilderness? And then she did. She saw penguins and volcanoes and paddled through the Roaring Forties and wrote a sonnet about Leave No Trace wilderness ethics and met some very nice gauchos who killed a yummy cow for her to eat. And it was all thanks to FOOT.

Oh yea, the whisperlite stove. i love that thing. i lurrrrve it.

Major: who the hell knows?

Other clubs: Tangled Up in Blue, P.H. Magazine

Favorite Moment: When you realize that the people on your trip are kick-ass.

Second Favorite Moment: Killing giant bugs that attacked at 4 in the morning with a boot.

Note: picture is attached, it's not a headshot, it's a fire, but I like it

Major: Biology (MCDB)

Other clubs: St. Anthony Hall, Club Soccer, DEMOS, Yale College Tutors, Yale Journal of Public Health. I've also volunteered with non-Yale public health groups in Bolivia over the summers, and done research in the Yale biology department for my work study.

Favorite Moment: One of my favorite parts of being a leader was getting to "show" the wilderness to freshmen who hadn't necessarily spent a lot of time in the outdoors before. How to build campfires, roast marshmallows, avoid poison ivy, and deal with being dirty and smelly are, I feel, skills just as important as anything you will learn in a Yale classroom. And I enjoy teaching them, to the best of my ability. Once my group ran across a rattlesnake, which was laying across the middle of our trail and telling us to stay away with the sound of its rattle. The thing was HUGE - at least four feet long and as big around as a softball. I was amazed - I can get a little "excited" by wild animals, and the rest of the group sort of had to prevent me from getting too close. I mean, it was just about the most magnificent creature I had ever seen, and it's not like I would have tried to TOUCH it or anything (well, actually...). But seriously, kids, the woods are safe. Those things aren't that dangerous anyway; if you get bit, you probably won't even die.

Major: Electrical Engineering

Other clubs: Team Lux (Yale Solar Car Team), Calhoun IMs, Club Wrestling, Club Lacrosse, Reed Lab Employee

Favorite FOOT Moments: The day spent at Franconia Falls as a FOOTie: natural rock waterslides and 20 foot plunges into clear frigid water. So amazing. I'll be back some day. Prom with Laura Warren and VT 4 was also sweet. Sparkling cider never tasted so good.

Worst FOOT Moment: Adam Stack challenge 2005, a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one. Being full for three days straight is not fun. I still hesitate before eating peanut butter and oatmeal.

Things that make me feel manly while I'm on FOOT, but are odd everywhere else: Eating apples: stem, core, and all. Eating moldy bread. Licking spilled jelly off of rocks, picnic tables, and other hard surfaces. The #2 experience.

Major: History and International Studies

Other clubs: Yale Daily News scene, Yale Globalist, WYBC Yale Radio, Students for a New American Politics PAC, Hurricane Emergency Relief Organization, Hawai'i Club

Best Thing About FOOT: Crazy Creeks. Resting at the summits. Blue Trail.

Why She's a FOOT Leader: There's nothing like starting and ending your school year in the woods with kinfolk.