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October 9,
2005
Confirm: baraboo
Hello again on this rainy day. Some Notes and News.
ACADEMICS
TD Sophomore Advising Night
MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 9 to 10 PM, TD South Common Room
ICE CREAM SOCIAL, 10 PM
JUNIORS AND SENIORS ALSO WELCOME
The Advising Night includes:
A Panel of TD seniors who discuss their experiences and choices as sophomores
A presentation about Study abroad, summer and in the junior year.
Ms Karyn Jones, Yale Office of International Education and Fellowship Programs (IEFP)
A presentation about postgraduate plans and academic choices.
Dean Philip Jones, Director of Career Services
A presentation about choosing a major and the sophomore year
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Midterm is Friday, October 21, which is the last day to withdraw from a fall term course without the course appearing on the transcript. You must complete a Course Change Notice, available in the TD dean’s office, to withdraw from a course. And, of course, I am available to talk to you about your decision to withdraw from a course or to keep it. Just call Trish at 432-0754 to arrange a time for us to meet.
November 4 is the deadline to convert from the CR/D/Fail option in a fall term course to a letter grade. The form, a Course Change Notice, is available in the TD dean’s office.
Three Resources for Tutoring in Writing:
The TD Writing Tutor, Diane Charney (diane.charney@yale.edu). Her office is in room 006 in TD and you can email her to arrange a time to meet to discuss a paper before you write it, as you organize it, as you write it, and after you get it back from the teacher.
Writing Partners at the Writing Center (55 Broadway, next to the Yale Off-Broadway Theater Space on the walk to Morse and Ezra Stiles). Writing Partners are Yale College or graduate school students who offer a students-eye perspective on college writing. Writing partners, who do not read papers before the appointment, offer drop-in service five nights a week at the Writing Center-35 Broadway. Hours, directions, and additional information are available on our website: <http://www.yale.edu/writing>.
Your Teachers during their office hours and appointements.
Career Services (UCS) Evening Hours in the Residential Colleges: UCS has updated its evening open hours in the residential colleges for the fall semester. Please visit www.yale.edu/career and click on "general info" to view a list of colleges that offer open hours, held every week with the exception of vacations. For TD Stephanie Lee will be holding open hours on Mondays from 5-8pm in the TD common room. Open hours are a place to have quick questions answered and to have your resume and/or cover letter reviewed.
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) now offers a BA/MEM 5-year degree program. Learn about FES graduate degree programs, application process, financial aid, scholarship opportunities, and more on Tuesday, October 11th, 5:00 - 6:00 pm (Hor d'oeuvres will be provided), TD South Common Room with Professor John Wargo, FES and Environmental Studies, and Angela Kühne, FES Admissions. Please RSVP by October 10th to angela.kuhne@yale.edu, 203.432.0209
The Yale School of Management (SOM) has a scholarship program called the Silver Scholars Program for a handful of Yale College graduating seniors who enroll directly from their undergraduate program into the SOM business degree program. A full scholarship is awarded for the first year, followed by a one year internship and then a return to finish the business degree the following year. Joseph Bono TD ’05 was selected a Silver Scholar last year and now attends SOM. Silver Scholars Program information reception will be held on Monday, October 10, 2005, 6:00 – 7:00 pm, Classroom A-46, 56 Hillhouse Avenue. More information: http://mba.yale.edu/silverscholar/content.shtml
A separate application must be made to SOM. The first application date is October 26, the second is January 11, and the third is March 15. Any student interested in applying is welcome to attend a general MBA information session which are held M – Th. Information: http://mba.yale.edu/mba_admissions/admissions/ad_interview.shtml
TIMOTHY DWIGHT COLLEGE
The inaugural weekly Halal communal dinner will be served on Wednesday, October 12 in the Commons Dining Hall. The communal dinner will feature a Halal meat entree and is intended as a weekly opportunity for Muslim students to eat together in the larger community of Muslim students.
Quiet Hours: Reminder, especially during this week of midterm, that we are expected to be quiet in the college and in our rooms after 11 PM on week nights and 1 AM on weekends. Quiet means our noise does not disturb others who may be sleeping or studying.
NOTES
I cannot help but notice, as I am sure you do, the transition from summer to fall. Suddenly, it seems, we wake up and it is cooler. It's a time of ambivalence, and the trees tell it well. Their leaves hold the green of summer as they simultaneously hold that dry look of a season to come. A little confusing: we look out the window, see the sunshine and green leaves, and find it's not t-shirt weather after all. This neither-here-nor-there of the season comes just as parents' weekend arrives. I imagine some ambivalence about that, too: Family (that very essence of home) here where home is not, coming from where we belonged to the place where our new belonging is becoming. Maybe no one is visiting us this weekend, which may bring up other kinds of ambivalence.
Either way, parents' weekend can be a confusing time for all of us in some way as we simultaneously look back and look ahead, perhaps struck by a kind of neither-there-nor-here sense of our inner seasons. For me, an outer ambivalence in nature is sometimes a comfort during my times of inner ambivalence -- a reminder that I may correspond to the way things are and the way things must be. And it is the correspondence with the natural ways that gives me comfort (I think). Maybe it can be that way for you, too. Also, you, in your new season, will brought your (or other) parents up to date as you let them see who you are as you have been and who you will be as you must be. And it can be helpful to remember that parents, too, waiver between the happy anticipation of what must be for you and the sad recollection of what is gone by. It's an ambivalence each of us shares with the trees during this and many a previous October.
And during this week of midterms and papers, we can without ambivalence turn to each other for support and understanding as we try our best to do our best. Family may not be here, but we do have each other in our extended TD family.
See you around the courtyard.
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