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February 04 ,
2007
Confirm: Baraboo
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
This Week’s Office Hours in TD Dean’s Office: On Thursday and Friday I will be at a conference and not in the TD dean’s office. Trish will be in the office, and Dean Flick will substitute for me in my absence. If you have any business for me, therefore, please keep in mind that I am in my office only Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week.
sophomores and freshmen
China Trip: On Monday Master T. and I will draw (as in a lottery) the freshman and the sophomore to go on the trip to China this May. We will also draw two alternates, one from each class. On Tuesday we will let freshmen and sophomores know who won this lottery. (The deadline to enter this lottery was last Friday, February 2. See Notes and News of the previous two weeks.)
freshmen
Freshman Representatives for TD Housing Committee: Two freshmen are needed to represent the Class of 2010 on the TD Housing Committee, one male and one female. If you are interested, let your freshman counselor know. The process for selection is this: freshmen are nominated by their counselors, and in consultation with them I select the freshmen members. Freshman counselors can tell you about the housing committee as can the current members: Raquelle Kellert, Justin Presant, Bevan Dowd, Jonathan Ferrugia, Niko Bowie, and Margaret Plouffe.
Letters of Recommendation and Placement Files: Trish maintains files of letters of recommendations (call Placement Files) for TD students and alumni. Once a letter is on file, she can at your written request send copies to potential employers, schools, and fellowships. It is never too early to think about asking for a letter a recommendation to keep on file. For further information about how the placement files can work for you and for advice about the sorts of letters you might want to request, see Trish.
ESSAY PRIZES
The John Addison Porter and Theron Rockwell Field Prizes. A brief
description of each prize and an application form (same form is used for both prizes) is available at:
http://www.yale.edu/secretary/prizes/Fieldprize.pdf
http://www.yale.edu/secretary/prizes/Porterprize.pdf
A completed application form must accompany each entry. The deadline is 5 PM on Thursday, April 5.
STUDY ABROAD
Peking University-Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program in Beijing: Two information sessions: Friday, February 9, 2007, LC 101, 6:30 PM; and
Monday, February 12, 2007, 55 Whitney Avenue, Room 305, 4:00 PM. Learn how to earn Yale credit by studying next fall with Yale and PKU faculty in Beijing, China. Yale students who just returned from the program last fall will be at the meeting to answer questions. For this program, no prior Chinese language study is required and Yale College financial aid "transfers." Application deadline is February 19, noon. Further information at www.yale.edu/iefp/pku-yale Questions to cameron.gearen@yale.edu
SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS and EMPLOYMENT
A full list of Yale fellowships is at www.yale.edu/iefp . You can search their Grants Database by Yale Class, for one, to see what Yale fellowships you might be eligible for and which match your interests.
Freshmen, sophomores, juniors
Yale International Summer Award (ISA): If you receive Yale financial aid (that is, financial aid from Yale -- such as a Yale Scholarship – as opposed to aid from other sources), you may be eligible for a Yale grant to help support Yale approved study programs abroad or work abroad (including Yale Bulldogs abroad and the Yale Summer Session programs abroad). For more information and a list of approved programs: www.yale.edu/isa . Note: This award is granted to a student only once, with this exception: If the first ISA is used for study of a language, the second can be used to support an approved internship that requires that same language. The reverse sequence does not qualify for two ISA’s, however.
Freshmen, sophomores, juniors
Yale College Fellowship for International Research in the Sciences and Health Studies supports research projects abroad in the natural and applied sciences and in health studies, including study of the social, political, economic, and biological determinants of health. Further information at www.yale.edu/yser/intlfellowships.html . Pre-application deadline: February 9. Application deadline: March 5.
Freshmen, sophomores, juniors
Summer Environmental Internship Program: Lunchtime information sessions on Monday, February 5, from 12 Noon to 1:30 PM in the Fellows’ Lounge next to the Calhoun College Dining Hall. This is an opportunity to learn about the program and the application process from members of the Environmental Studies faculty committee that makes the awards and from students who have been awarded previous environmental internships. More information at http://www.yaleedu/evst/summer_internships.html. Deadline: Friday, March 2, 2007. Graduating seniors are not eligible for this internship.
Summer Internships with the office Yale University Properties: Two paid positions: Program Coordinator and Marketing Intern. Further information and how to apply: www.yalestudentjobs.org University Properties at www.yale.edu/up
CAREER SERVICES
Working for Nonprofits: Nonprofit Resumes, Thursday, February 8, UCS 369, 6 PM.
Eighth Annual Yale College Nonprofit Career Fair: Friday, February 16, 11 AM to 2 PM, Lanman Center of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
NOTES
I could not help but notice the sunset today – an orange fire against a dark blue sky – the kind that only a cold and dry winter evening can bring. And the evening star, like me, had arrived and was looking on. I think the French have such a fitting word for Twilight: le crepuscule. It is word whose complexity of consonants and final vowel linger like the twilight itself. As routine as sunsets often seem, this one reminded me they need not be routine. It’s my routine of in-attention and divided-attention that makes each sunset seem like another. I do not linger to look and see for myself.
Speaking of routine, we have started ours with courses and activities (for the most part) chosen. Routine can be a good thing, of course. We can organize (or try to organize) our diurnal lives with all our responsibilities and obligations. We make promises to others and to ourselves, and as we work hard to keep them the best we can, a calendar of routine can help. Life, however, is more than routine, as we know. It is and is more than predictable and planned. Life comes at us, and not all always in ways we welcome. “Happenstance” is a word for that arrival, and I like that word, too. For me it includes “standing,” as in “I have standing” and as in “I stand up.” When life “happens,” we might have to take a stand, search for perspective, and discover how to think about something very new to us, well outside our ordered calendar of days. So, both: routine and happenstance.
I look to nature, as many of us do, to try to see the order in things in order to get a sense of my order of things. The Greek word for cosmos, after all, means “order.” The Persian word for garden, by the way, means “paradise.” Order cannot be captured by routine, try as we might. “See paradise” is not, I bet, caught in your routine. Both are, however, captured by our very lives. Like seeing a sunset on a winter evening, we look up and away and see. Or, like a superstition, “happen” comes unexpected over our (usually) left shoulder. It arrives, it stands before us, and it reminds us: life meanders and means. A routines does not ordinarily include seeing sunsets of orange fire against a dark blue sky. Lingering does.
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