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February 12,
2006
confirm: baraboo
Hello in the Snow Today. Some Notes and News.
ACADEMICS
Math/Science Tutors: TD has a resident math tutor, David Schuster. His hours, and the hours of all residential college math/science tutors with their specialties in science are at www.yale.edu/mstutor. Also you can be assigned an individual math or science tutor, ordinarily another Yale student. The forms to request an individual tutor are in my office.
Writing Tutors and Partners: To arrange to see the TD Writing Tutor, email diane.charney@yale.edu . Her office is in the basement of TD. Writing Partners are also available at the Writing Center, and other college tutors are available. Tutors’ schedules are at www.yale.edu/bass/tutoring .
MCDB Advisory Outreach Meeting. MCDB will hold an information and advisory meeting during dinner for current majors and for prospective majors, Tuesday, February 21, TD South Common Room, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM. The DUS and other faculty will answer questions and give advice. Drop by anytime during dinner to eat and talk to them.
FELLOWSHIPS
Juniors: Information Meeting on Major Fellowships with Early Fall Deadlines.
Each spring the office of International Education and Fellowship Programs sponsors a series of information meetings concerning the major fall fellowships to encourage students to begin thinking seriously about their options. This year they will once again hold general information meetings early in the spring term and follow up with dinner meetings in the Colleges and meetings at the Cultural Centers, so that students will be able to take advantage of the smaller meetings already primed with information from the larger general meeting.
The Fulbright Grants information meeting will take place on Tuesday, February 14 at IEFP (55 Whitney Avenue, 3rd Floor), at 7:00 p.m.
Rhodes, Marshall, and Mitchell information meeting will take place on Thursday, February 16 also at IEFP at 7:00 p.m.
At these meetings, campus application procedures will be explained, and students will be encouraged to begin their preparation early (since application deadlines occur very in early fall term). Students will also be able to ask questions of recent winners of these awards.
IEFP will also hold meetings on Writing Fellowship Essays and other International Fellowships for Seniors in April.
Field and Porter Prizes for Essays. Information and applications at www.yale.edu/secretary/prizes/Fieldprize.pdf
www.yale.edu/secretary/prizes/Porterprize.pdf Deadline: 5:00 PM, Thursday, April 6, 2006.
NOTES
Mid-afternoon today I took a walk in the snow to take a break from my work. Like most of us, I like to be in to see the look of fallen snow; like some, I like being with it in order to see it that way. Earlier, when I went to my office, I say some bird tracks in the thin layer of snow blown onto the ramp outside the door. The tracks began where the thin drift began and ended where it ended, as if the bird came from no place and returned there. Only those light impressions told me I had a visitor. That bird may visit my office stoop every early morning as far as I know, but it is only today that I saw.
On my walk and thinking back on that bird, I thought perhaps I could notice what the snow reveals rather than what it conceals. Almost slipping on the icy walk along Temple, it revealed my absolute reliance on a functioning inner ear with its little slosh of warm liquid on a cold day. And quick reflexes (thank goodness). Walking across the Green I noticed the circle shape of the snow drifts at the base of the trees, revealing to me what I do not see on other days: the wind seems to go around a tree as it strikes it and moves on. I wondered if anyone has studied the paths of winds and breezes against a tree (I am not sure it matters, but I was curious). On the steps of the Union League the drifts revealed the patterns of wind against them and the walls behind. I saw the same on the rooftops and other places where the vertical meets the horizontal. It thought to myself that my town is a kind of wind tunnel if one were to use it that way to study the patterns of the winds, breezes, and wafts of air. We all know that at the corners of Grove and Whitney that the wind seems to blow especially hard on a windy day. Today on my walk the snow revealed some more subtle and quieter ways of the wind.
And impressions. Like the bird (whom someone in TD can probably identify from its tracks) our boots leave the marks of their varieties of soles, which would be a special kind of revelation to a student of footprints who would induce all sorts of information about the biped who went this way or that. Such impressions do reveal something but, of course, not everything. And not all at once, either. In our lives first impressions are that way, as are the second and third and all the others. Revelation seems to, well, reveal as we see what we observe. So it is with us. On Valentine’s Day we try to give attention especially to our romantic friendships. We try to make an impression. We may also try to see those impressions not yet revealed to us, those subtle and quiet patterns of our ways when we are with as well when we look at. And, of course, colorful flowers reveal a lot against the background of snow. Happy Valentine’s Day.
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