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September 9,
2007
Confirm: Baraboo
Hello, fellow neighbors of Timothy Dwight. What a wonderful summer evening!
TD Dean’s Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30 AM to 5 PM. Office Phone: 203-432-0754. Dean’s home phone: 203-432-8534
ACADEMICS
Course Schedules:
Deadlines:
Class of 2011 Monday, September 17, 5 PM
Classes of 2009 and 2010: Tuesday, September 18, 5 PM
Class of 2008: Wednesday, September 19, 5 PM
A late schedule incurs a fine of $50
A late schedule may not elect any courses CR/D/Fail
A schedule of as few as 3 and as many as 6 course credits needs my permission before the schedule is handed in.
Class meeting times may not overlap by more than 15 minutes and require a conversation with me, compelling academic reasons for the overlap, and a petition to the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing.
A schedule with a course in The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (and also not listed in the blue book) or a professional school requires an additional form, which is available in the TD dean’s office and at www.yale.edu/sfas/registrar/blue_form.pdf . Hand in the completed form with your course schedule with a syllabus attached when it is available. All graduate and professional school courses will default to 0.0 credits for Yale College students until the form is handed in to your TD dean’s office and subsequently receives the course credits allotted to that course. The absolute deadline for submitting the form is one Friday, October, 5, 2007 for the fall term 2007.
Sophomores: Remember to hand in the form to select a sophomore year adviser if you did not do so last spring. If you need suggestions for potential advisers, I am available. Extra forms are available at the sophomore web site (www.yale.edu/sophomore) at the Advising Tab.
Distributional Requirements
Seniors: Distributional requirements for the degree: A total of 12 course credits in the groups outside your major, with a minimum of 3 course credits in each group outside your major. The Group IV distributional requirement must include 2 course credits in a natural science. Majors in a group IV do not have to complete 2 course credits in the natural sciences. Only one course credit taken CR/D/Fail in each group may be used to fulfill the distributional requirements.
Juniors, sophomores, freshmen: No course completed CR/D/Fail may be used to fulfill the distributional requirements. A course listed to fulfill two distributional requirements (QR and SC, for example) may be used for one or the other requirement, but not both at the same time. A course listed QR and Sc will be counted for QR or Sc in the way that best helps the student meet the distributional requirements at the time and can be calculated later as one or the other in a different way that at that time best helps the student meet the distributional requirements at that time (e.g., for the sophomore year, the junior year, or for requirements for the degree).
Juniors: The language requirement must be completed by the end of the junior year (i.e., by the end of six terms of enrollment).
Deadline to apply for a Fall-Term Leave of Absence: Friday, September 14.
Changes in Class Meeting Times and Places: Courses added or deleted since the publication of the Blue Book are recorded on line. The on line list of courses is the most current one, updated on line as needed.
Residential College Seminars: College seminars will meet during the first week of classes, starting on Wednesday, September 5. Students should attend the first meeting of the college seminar and submit an application card at the end of the session. You will get the card in your registration packet on Tuesday. Any required writing sample should also be turned in with the application at the end of the session. Additional cards for second choice seminars are in the TD dean's office. Residential College seminars are listed at www.yale.edu/collegeseminar .
Make-up Examinations for Spring 2007 Courses (Only for students who received an ABX last term):
The make-up exam schedule has been changed to:
Tues Sept 18 4 - 7:30 pm
Wed Sept 19 4 - 7:30 pm
Thurs Sept 20 4 - 7:30 pm
The registrar will notify each student about what particular make-up examinations will be given on what particular day.
Last day for a student to withdraw from Yale College and still receive a full rebate of tuition is September 14
Deadline for Seniors to apply for completion of degree requirements at the end of the Fall term is September 19. The form is in the TD dean’s office.
Juniors Teacher Preparation Program: Just a reminder that returning juniors still have time to enroll in the Teacher Preparation Program - a two year sequence of courses that allows them to graduate both with a BA and a public teaching certificate. For more info see out website www.yale.edu/tprep
DEPARTMENTAL INFORMATION MEETINGS
freshmen and sophomores who are considering majoring in Electrical Engineering: Professor Yiorgos Makris, Director of Undergraduate Studies, will conduct a meeting for all who are planning and or considering an EE major: September 10, 5:00 -7:00 p.m, Dunham Lab 220. The topics of discussion will be: Introduction of the new DUS and his assistant, Scheduling meetings with the DUS, Overview of the offered majors, Requirements and EE major forms, Policies and procedures, Questions and answers, Meeting and speaking with the upper classmen
freshmen, sophomores, and juniors: The Yale School of Public Health, Five Year B.A./B.S.-M.P.H. Select Program: An orientation session will be held to answer any prospective student questions: Tuesday, September 18th at 4PM. Location: YSPH, 60 College Street, Room 105 All current students are welcome, but only juniors may apply. Application deadline is in October.
SCHOLARSHIPS and FELLOWSHIPS
Freshmen: Yale College is pleased to accept applications from the Class of 2011 for the Science, Technology, and Research Scholars (STARS) Program. The Science, Technology, and Research Scholars Program, assists freshmen in establishing a community of undergraduate scientists who are supported by upperclassmen, graduate students, post-docs and faculty.
•Students entering into a cooperative community of scholars, increase their success in a science and/or pre-medical career at Yale.
•The program provides study groups/help sessions, lab/research opportunities, funding for conference presentations, and strong mentoring relationships.
•STARS identifies and advises students in their first two years, which is a critical transitional time in undergraduate education.
•The selection of program participants is highly competitive and restricted to the freshman class.
•Preference is for groups that are underrepresented in scientific and technological disciplines including minority, first generation and economically disadvantaged students.
NOTE: Students enrolled in Perspectives on Science are not eligible for STARS
Application Deadline; Friday, September 14, 4:30 p.m., Room 110 Yale College Dean's Office c/o Dean Pamela George. Applications are available in the TD dean’s office and at SSS, Room 110. For questions, please contact the administrative director, Dean Pamela George: pamela.george@yale.edu.
NOTES
As I have written here before, I have been thinking about changes and contrasts. I see before me the pool at Llama Land, blue and clear. Filtered. Still. The pool’s rough waters are from our own making, from cannon balls and fancy dives. In contrast, I see Clark’s Pond near Sleeping Giant in Hamden, about 6 miles away: opaque. Moving. Restless. The rough waters come from the winds and rains from other places, blown our way on their way somewhere else. At Clark’s new waters rush in at one end and over the levy they turn out the other. The pool is more like what we think we want life to be; the pond is more like how life is.
And then there is Grouch Marx, who turned a familiar phrase to coin a new one, “Gone today, here tomorrow.” A philosophical turn, no doubt. And I am reminded of the contrast of new friends and old ones. New at Yale, the familiar may not be here just yet, although we may be eager to make it so. New or old at Yale we know who is absent – friends in other places like home; friends who graduated and moved away. But even so we greet each other, rightly optimistic that friends will be part of our course here, perhaps soon so that we do not have to force it to be so. Being here is like Clark’s Pond – something comes in from here or there and than takes a turn to there or here. When it is time, the new will be let in as the old is let go. None of this will be clear or still. Life is really unfiltered, opaque, and not very tidy.
W still want our bright and blue waters for lolling and splashing about. We still want the dance of a day’s roll and sway. On one day an isolated lift of our shoulders is a shrug; on another day we lift them once, twice, and again to the beat of the music. Restless, we turn our hats to the side, we lift our chins a little and cock our heads a bit, we take in the possible with a certain flair. We take our turn on the course. We expect life, and then here it is. Sometimes we even dance with running water from a hose, as if no one were watching (as in Dance as if no one is watching, sing as if no one is listening, and love as if you never lost). All sure looks like all will be well. See you around the courtyard.
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