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February 3,
2008
Confirm: baraboo
Hello after this sunny and warm day. Some Notes and News
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
TD Web Master: Needed is a TD web master to replace Neil Chatani, who has done it so well the last few years. If you are interested, please let me know. Before you do, you may find it useful to talk to Neil. Training with Neil would be this spring term, and full responsibility will begin in fall 2008. Let me know by Friday, February 8 if you are interested.
Freshman Counselor Applications and information are available on line at www.yale.edu/yalecollege/ . The deadline to apply is Monday, February 4.
Applicants follow five steps:
1. Read the program and application information at the freshman counselor link at www.yale.edu/yalecollege.
2. Follow the links to the freshman counselor application procedures, log in, and download the application as a pdf or MS Word document.
3. Return the completed application to Teri Barbuto, Yale College Dean’s Office, 105 SSS, by the deadline of February 4, 4 PM. Students abroad or on leave may fax the application to 203-432-7472 or email it to teri.barbuto@yale.edu.
4. Submit a one-page resume directly the TD dean’s office and/or cultural center director if applying to be an Ethnic Counselor.
5. TD applicants will be notified by email after the deadline of the interviewing procedure in TD. Those applying to be an Ethnic Counselor should follow the interviewing procedures arranged by the directors of the cultural centers.
6. Applicants will be notified on Friday, March 7.
TUTORING
TD Resident Math and Science Tutor: The TD math and science tutor is Jack Challis. His office is also in room 006, his email address is john.challis@yale.edu, and his schedule is available at www.yale.edu/mstutor. For your information, a Yale College student may seek the help and advice of any math and science tutor in any residential college, and these tutors have specialties that are noted at the web site.
TD Resident Writing Tutor: The TD Writing Tutor is Diane Charney. Her office is in the basement of TD, room 006, and her email address is diane.charney@yale.edu. You can schedule a meeting with her or any college writing tutor at www.yale.edu/writing .
Writing Partners at the Writing Center: Writing Partners are Yale College or graduate school students selected for both their writing skills and their ability to talk about writing. Writing partners do not read papers before the appointment, so they will often focus on the beginning of your text or other short sections that you know need help. Still, since many writing problems show up in the first two pages of a paper, this kind of tutoring can be very effective. The Writing Center offers drop-in service five nights and six afternoons a week, which may be helpful if you face an immediate deadline. Writing Partners hours will begin on Sunday, September 16. Writing Partner Hours: Sunday through Thursday: 3-5 pm and 7-9 pm; Friday: 3-5 pm . Further information at www.yale.edu/writing
Yale College Tutoring Program: This tutoring program makes it possible to receive tutoring in other subjects, such as non-English languages, economics, and the sciences and mathematics. The form to request such tutoring, which is free, is available in the TD dean’s office.
Tutoring in Foreign Languages: The process for asking for a foreign language tutor is described at www.cls.yale.edu/tutoring
Tutoring in Academic Departments. Some departments provide tutoring for students taking courses in their department. Ask your teacher or the Director of Undergraduate Studies of the department.
SUMMER
Freshmen, sophomores, juniors
Yale Alumni Community Service Fellowship is an eight week paid fellowship program run entirely through Yale Alumni all over the United States. Placement includes housing, a stipend ($2800), and an internship opportunity in place and ready for their efforts. The Yale Alumni Community Service Fellowship (aka Community Service Summer Fellowship) has sent over 500 Yale students to quality non-profit, community-based organizations across the country and internationally to engage in; summer camps for at risk youth, assist in an immigration law office or an orthopedic hospital, support environmental quality control in Alaska. The extended deadline to February 15 Applications are available in the TD dean’s office. Further information at www.aya.yale.edu/cssf or contact allison.biele@yale.edu or by telephone at 436-8012. New placements this summer include: Swaner Nature Preserve in Utah, Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Elm Street Neighborhood Center in Yonkers NY and Korean American Community Organization, in NYC. In addition Boston will be sponsoring environmental and sustainability internships this summer, and Southern California has a placement to be determined. Returning sites include, Renewable Energy Alaska Project in Anchorage, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas, Human Services of Dade County in Miami, Business Professional People for Public Interest in Chicago and Boston College Immigration and Asylum Project in Boston. A full site list with descriptions will be available to all applicants after the first interview. www.yalecssf.org
Summer International Opportunities Information Meeting: Monday, February 4 at 4PM, LC 102. Sponsored by IEFP, UCS, Yale in London, Yale Summer Session. This meeting will introduce international summer options available to Yale students, both Yale and non-Yale programs, international internships, and funding for summer activities.
Freshmen
International Opportunities Night on the Old Campus Tuesday, February 5, 8pm-10pm, Old Campus, LC 102. Student and administrators will come to Old Campus to discuss international opportunities for Yale students, including study, internships, research, and fellowships: Peking University-Yale University Joint Program, UCS International Bulldogs, Yale in London, Year or Term Abroad, Office of International Education and Fellowship Programs, Light Fellowship office, and MacMillan Center
Freshmen, sophomores, juniors
Summer 2008 Science Research Fellowship Information Session about Yale College-administered summer research fellowships in the sciences on Wednesday, February 20, in SSS 201 (Taylor Library) at 6:00 PM. Summer 2008 Science Research Fellowships include Yale College Fellowship for International Research in the Sciences and Health Studies: applications due March 6 (pre-applications due February 8); Yale-HHMI Future Scientists Program: applications due March 6; and Yale Science Scholars Program: applications due March 6; Yale College Dean's Research Fellowship in the Sciences: applications due March 26. For information on these and other fellowships for scientific and health-related research, see the YSER web site www.yale.edu/yser/fellowships.html .
For information about Yale College Dean's Research Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences and other fellowships for research, travel and study abroad, see the IEFP grants database at http://studentgrants.yale.edu/
Freshmen, sophomores, juniors
If you wish to be added to the Yale College Science and QR Center's mailing list for undergraduate research opportunities, please send a message to yser@yale.edu with "subscribe" in the subject line.
Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors, Graduating Seniors
Summer Counselor Positions in the Yale Summer Session: Applications and information sheet are available in TD dean’s office and at the Summer Session Office at 55 Whitney Ave., Suite 430. The application deadline is 4 p.m., Friday, 8 February, 2008 at the Summer Session Office.
OTHER
9th Annual Yale College Nonprofit Career Fair: Friday, February 8, 11 am -2 pm, Lanman Center, Payne Whitney Gym. Meet representatives from and learn about different nonprofit industries: Education, Family - Youth & Children's Services, Government, Health Care, International Relations, Public Interest and Social Responsibility. Visit www.yale.edu/career for more information.
Cultural Connections 2008 Aide applications are now available. Students who did not attend Cultural Connections at Yale are also eligible. Each year, our group of Aides is made up of students who participate in a variety of activities on campus and in New Haven before the start of the fall term. The job description and application are available in the TD dean’s office. Deadline: Monday, February 25, 2008. Direct questions to the Program Director, Dean Rosalinda Garcia (rosalinda.garcia@yale.edu).
NOTES
On my way to Swing or the gym I sometimes see clouds gathering and dispersing over the power plant, its own sort of “cloud factory” (to borrow from Thoreau on Ktaadn), their grays of many shades and their whites between. Turner painted them in their sunset and dawn colors, paintings for us to see at the British Art Center with the pinks and oranges of even our own campus sunsets. The clouds’ familiar formations may bring rain; the wide, flat gray one may bring snow. Mostly, though, they just come and go without our noticing.
In our travels about campus, looking down to step up or step around the leavings of our human activity and the wind, we may not look up. And our infrequent open spaces and heights on campus do not put many prospects before us. There is one benefit of having classes on science hill: a stop on the downhill path toward Hillhouse offers a prospect, a look out that can take us away for a moment, maybe in the light of a bright day, maybe even in the gray of a cloudy one. A stop can be a pause to see at a distance and to gain some sense of our true size and the right proportion of all own worries.
At Yale it always seems there is something that must be done. That is the nature of this place that expects a lot of us and where we came because we expect a lot of ourselves. But even in music there is a pause and rest. A pause to look up and around can be a perspective, just in time, as we conduct our own diurnal scores.
We all know the benefit of classrooms with windows to dreamily look out, that let in the light, and maybe even offer the prospect of something besides. It is these “something besides” we may not see enough: the shades and hues of a private moment, a hint of the formation of ourselves and our view, a looking away to welcome a sense within. And, of course, the pause and rest.
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