Freshman 411

First-Year Packet

• Welcome Letter from Bethany Nohlgren, Associate Dean of Students & Director of First-Year Experience

• Language & Thinking Program Introduction
  
  
• First-Year Checklist
  

Arrival Day: August 7, 2010

• Letter from Bethany Nohlgren
  
  
• Arrival Day Schedule
  
  
• What To Bring
• Sending mail and shipping packages to campus
• Our shipping department will be open on August 7, 2010
• Bed, Bath & Beyond "Pack & Hold" Program
• Unpublicized program that allows you to purchase items at your local BB&B store and ship them to the BB&B location nearest to Bard (Kingston, NY). Contact your local BB&B store for details.
  

• Getting To Bard
• Air
• Albany International Airport is the most convenient to Bard, located 60 miles north of the campus. You can rent a car from there or take an Amtrak train from Albany to the Rhinecliff Station, then a 10-minute taxi or shuttle ride to campus.
• Stewart Airport is only 50 miles south of campus but there are no train or direct connections.
• Train
• All major New York City Airports (Newark, J.F.K., and LaGuardia) have public transportation into the city (busy, taxi, subway for J.F.K. and LaGuardia) and to both train stations: Grand Central (Metro North Railroad, which will bring you to Poughkeepsie, 45 minutes south of campus) and Penn Station (Amtrak).
• Local Taxi Services
  
• A-1 Taxi, (845)473-7600
  
• Red Hook Taxi Service, (845) 758-1478
• Rhinebeck Taxi, (845) 876-6600
  
  
• Campus Maps
• Interactive
• Printable
  
  
• Residence Halls
  

Academics

• 2010-2011 Academic Calendar
  
  
• Bard Curriculum
  
  
• Language & Thinking Program
  
  
• First Year Seminar
  

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