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February 5,
2006
confirm: baraboo
ACACEMICS
Mellon Senior Forum: Next Meeting, February 7, 5:30-7:30, Anna Liffey's, private room upstairs. Presenters: Adrian Heinzelman (Anthropology): "Sex differences in the feeding behavior of chimpanzees.” Lauren Abendshien (Chemistry): "Analysis of the Energy Barrier to Proton Transfer in Acetylacetone via Raman Spectroscopy." Julia Gegenheimer (Political Science): "Obstacles to Development: the Pursuit of Reform in an African Microstate."
TD Writing Tutor Diane Charney writes, “February can be a lonely month for Writing Tutors. Please email me at diane.charney@yale.edu if you would like to get together to discuss any aspect of your writing. You do not need to have a completed draft. Feel free to come just to brainstorm, or to talk about how things have gone on previous efforts. I especially invite those working on a senior essay to give me a preview of their project. And of course, first timers a always welcome.”
Sophomores: The International Studies Major is holding two informational meetings with the current DUS and Registrar: Wednesday, February 8, 4:00-5:00 PM Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 103 & Friday, February 24, 2:00-4:00 PM, 8 Prospect Place, Room 121. Come with your questions about the major and the application. Application Deadline: Monday, February 27. Application Available: Luce 210 or http://www.yale.edu/ycias/iac/bainternational.htm
Yale Summer Session Information Meeting on Study in Spain and Spanish: Wednesday February 8, at 4:30 PM, Yale Summer Session will hold a general information meeting for the summer 2006 study abroad program in Bilbao, Spain. Instructors Beatriz Peña and Isabel Jaen-Portillo will discuss the program and answer questions about the course, and YSS Program Coordinator Cristin Siebert will answer questions concerning cost and logistics. Refreshments. 3rd floor, 82-90 Wall St. For information and inquiries, email summer.session@yale.edu or visit www.yale.edu/summer
SUMMER INTERNSHIPS
The Environmental Studies Program invites you to join us for a lunchtime information session on the summer environmental internship program. Two sessions are offered: one on Tuesday, February 7 at 12:00 noon and the other on Friday, February 10 at 12:00 noon. The informational sessions will be held in Silliman College Fellows' Lounge. The lounge is on the second floor of Byers Hall (entry from Silliman Courtyard, corner of College and Grove Sts. On the second floor the dining hall is to the right, lounge to the left.) Pick up your lunch in the dining hall before joining us in the lounge. This will be an opportunity to talk with members of the Environmental Studies faculty committee that makes the awards and students who have been awarded environmental internships in previous years about the program and the application process. For more information on the Summer Internship Program: http://www.yaleedu/evst/summer_internships.html.
Summer Job in IT Consulting from a TD Alumna, Temi Ifafore (Cell: 734.395.7561):
:Duration: summer 2006 (scheduling may be flexible). Pay: TBD, but there is a stipend. Eligibility: Current undergrads (seniors also eligible). Contact: Send cover letter and resume to Mark Lee (mlee@netatwork.com). Net@Work (www.netatwork.com) is a fast-growing technology solutions provider in NYC seeking a summer intern for the IT Consulting Services Group who possesses strong organizational skills and solid business acumen. Internship description: To help maintain and enhance the operational infrastructure of the department while reporting to the Director of IT Consulting Services
Skills/Qualifications:
• Relevant prior experience a plus
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Highly organized and dependable
• Ability to work independently and show initiative
• PC proficient
• Deadline-oriented and productive
• Excellent time management skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality
• Solid general math skills
NOTES
I found this in a book I am reading: “A child seeks to make a world in which to find a place to discover a self.” I have been ruminating about this sentence ever since, and I see it applies to more than children (“ruminate” differs, importantly, as I learned once, from “think about”). The book is Man in the Landscape, to give you some context). The quote applies to us, I suggest, well passed childhood (well, for the most part). I am thinking, for instance, of our lives in our residential college and, more widely, at Yale. I see the agency in “seeks to make” and I infer a process in “discover a self.” By chance, a nearby book on my table is called Out of Place. That condition seems far less desirable than “a world in which.” And “world,” there is a word that evokes something “more than.”
So, I have been ruminating about making a world to find a place to discover a self as I, like you, live in our place(s) called Timothy Dwight, Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, New England and so on until we get to “world.” Those names do not name the place I seek to find because that place has no name; that place prompts a sense of being some place concrete, tangible, with affection, of the senses. And if I am to make such a place, so sensibly known, what am I to do and how am I to do it? And when I discover a self, how will I know I have done so? Will I recognize it with an “aha!” or (more likely) grow into it imperceptibly, recognizing that self when I do and knowing I am out of place (and a self) when I am. I guess I just have to trust my self on this one.
First, though, is finding a place. I think our college can be such a place, if we want it to be, in all about it that is tangible and exactly so: the sound of rain on the window ledges, the sound of sirens in the streets, the sound of voices early in the morning; the smells of dining halls and entryways and rooms; the sight of puddles and birds; the touch of banisters, leather couches, and soap in the bathrooms. All of it. To make all of it a place to find a self, the agency of finding and discovering, comes in a different way. It is not the passive reception of all that excites our senses. It comes from acting to “make it so.” The child (in the book) plays hide and seek to find a place. A place to hide is a place to discover a self – some secret, private place. The child has a yard with places to go that adults do not consider places to go. The child has a room with personal and magical things in it. The child has an imagination excited by books, by nature, by meeting others. The child has others who love and to love back. The child is on an adventure of discovery.
In our busy times of deadlines and obligations and expectations and demands and more expectations and disappointments and tests and testing and on and on (in the ways we are ever so familiar), I think it is useful to ruminate about discovering a self in a place we make for it. Surely this discovery is important – for us and for those we love and who love us. When someone calls our name, we do want to stand and say and assert, “Yes.”
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