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October 07,
2007
Confirm: Baraboo
Hello on this cool, fall night. Some Notes and News.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
TD Senior Mellon Forum: Later this month Diane Charney, our Mellon Fellow, will be notifying seniors about the Forum, which will begin after that. Any senior who is interested in being considered for the position of senior coordinator of the Forum, please email diane.charney@yale.edu to let her know of your interest.
Security: Think of the door to your suite as the door to your house (not the door to your room). Keep you suite doors shut, even when you go to the bathroom. Keep entryway doors shut.
ACADEMICS
Deadline: Monday, October 15 to apply for a spring term 2008 Term Abroad. Sophomores and Juniors are eligible.
Deadline: Midterm, Friday, October 26 to withdraw from a fall-term course without having the course appear on the transcript. The form is available in the TD dean’s office.
Deadline: Midterm, Friday, October 26 to apply for double credit in a single-credit course. The form is available in the TD dean’s office.
Deadline: Friday, November 9 to convert from the CR/D/Fail option in a fall-term course to a letter grade. The form is available in the TD dean’s office.
SOPHOMORES
TD Sophomore Advising Night: Wednesday, October 24, 9 PM, TD South Common Room. Information about choosing a major, summer jobs and careers, study abroad, fellowships. Panel of TD students and presentations by Dean Loge; Phil Jones, Director of Career Services: and representatives from the Office of International Education and Fellowships. Question period and ice cream social afterwards.
TD Sophomore Dinner: Scheduled for November 13, 6 – 8 PM, TD Dining Hall. Mark your calendars. Musical entertainment provided by Master T.
Sophomore Web Site: www.yale.edu/sophomore . Information, Links, Advice .
Choosing a Major: At www.yale.edu/facebook you can search for others in Yale College (and in Timothy Dwight, of course) by their declared major.
Portuguese Major: An orientation for interested or prospective majors, including 2008 Yale Summer Session courses in Brazil (Paraty), Yale courses for 2007-08, and the Yale Portuguese Studies in literatures and cultures of the Portuguese world. An Open Invitation to all Students and Brazilians at Yale. Featuring student photos from Paraty from Summer 2007 and an assortment of Brazilian food and drinks (guaraná, brigadeiros, pão de queijo). Wednesday, October 10, Visitor Center, 149 Elm Street, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Information at http://www.yale.edu/span-port
STUDY ABROAD
Deadline: Monday, October 15 to apply for a spring term 2008 Term Abroad. Sophomores and Juniors are eligible.
PKU-Yale Joint Program: China Night All are invited to an informal evening talk about the current politics, culture, history and language of China, including a projector to show pictures, and some wonderful people from the study abroad office will be there to talk about your opportunities as Yale students, as well as their own experiences. And of course, relevant food will be served. If you have any interest in talking about your own experiences, please contact Dean Daniel Tauss, or just come to the event next week.
Branford College Trumbull Room, Wednesday, October 10, 8 pm.
PKU-Yale Joint Program: Photo Exhibition: "China: People and Places” The International Education & Fellowship Programs is proud to present Han Xu’s photograph exhibition, “China: People and Places,” which opens this month in the Davenport Gallery. An opening reception will be held October 8, 7-8 P.M., and the exhibition will be up until October 20. Xu’s collection includes many photographs taken over a year spent in China participating in the PKU-Yale Joint Undergraduate Program, during which he traveled to Yunnan, Inner Mongolia, and other destinations. “China: People and Places” features the many faces of China, deftly capturing the dynamism of culture and beautiful natural landscapes of this rapidly changing nation. Xu is a junior in Davenport College and is a staff photographer for the Yale Daily News. To view more of Xu’s portfolio, please go to www.hxuphoto.com.
FELLOWSHIPS
Fellowships for Yale students are listed on line at www.yale.edu/iefp
The Silver Scholars Program at the Yale School of Management admits a few college seniors directly into their MBA program: Information Meeting: Monday, October 15, 2007, 6:00 – 7:00 pm, Classroom A-46, 56 Hillhouse Avenue. Eligible are graduating seniors.
To register for the meeting, click here or this link http://mba.yale.edu/MBA/Admissions/adevents/2007/newhaven101507.shtml
Information about the Silver Scholars Program:
http://mba.yale.edu/MBA/admissions/apply/silver_scholars.shtml
NOTES
Sometimes I see the Gingko tree standing alone and sometimes I see it standing with the other trees, our college walls, and the New Haven buildings beyond. That is a perspective I bring to Gingko and also attach to me as I do so. A Gingko is a gingko alone and also a Gingko in contexts more elaborate and inclusive than I rightly know or understand. Speaking for him (yes, the Gingko is male): “I live in the Mill River Watershed and I have been here since before Timothy Dwight was built in 1934, starting my life in the back yard of the house that was on the corner of Grove and Temple. I have thus lived in the city for a long time. I also want to let you know that my family has been around since the Miocene, although I cannot say that for myself, of course.” Now that is perspective.
Perspective can be ours as well. Like our Gingko, we are singular and we live in a context of connections. Where the one ends and the others begins is not simple to sort out (if it can be sorted out at all), but being both a part of and apart from seems to be our common experience. One advantage of part of is that others can give us perspectives when we need them. It is common that when things are not going well, we imagine things will continue that way (maybe even forever). It is especially so, for some reason, with our feelings of being overwhelmed or discouraged. Actually, though, as a reflection on our own experience can tell us and as the perspectives of others from their experiences can remind us, those feelings do pass. We may even learn just how much we have in common with others as we begin to share our own sense of things and how we feel about them. Such sought-after connections can actually sustain and support us.
Once I saw a greeting card with a photograph of a very large and stately oak tree in back and white, standing alone in a field and against a flat horizon. The caption read: Endurance. That’s all: Endurance. I bought the card and sent it to an old friend, not because he had anything in particular to endure at the time but because I thought the message in general such a good reminder of a part of life. The card was one of those blank cards, so I had to invent some message or find some suitable quotation from someplace. I forget which I did, but I can still picture in my mind’s eye that oak tree. That image, like my daily sight of our own Gingko, continues to remind me that life is both about standing and about being connected in doing so to all of us who do so. And I am so grateful for the sense of part of in “all of us”: “We live in the Mill River Watershed and . . . .”
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