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October 16,
2005
confirm: Baraboo
Hello after a week of rain and a weekend of some sunshine. Some Notes and News.
ACADEMICS
Deadline: Midterm, Friday, October 21:
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, and of course, you may wish to consult your academic adviser. Just call Trish at 432-0754 to arrange a time for us to meet.
Deadline to apply for double credit in a single credit course. If you are considering this, please do arrange to see me (call Trish at 432-0754). The form is available in the TD dean’s office.
Withdrawal from Yale College on or before this date entitles a student to a rebate of one-quarter of the term’s tuition.
Deadline: Friday, November 4
The last day 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.
Two Resources for Tutoring:
In a Foreign Language: Discuss the need for tutoring with your teacher. Then visit the language tutoring website www.cls.yuale.edu/tutoring to complete the on-line request for tutoring form.
In a course designated QR in the Blue Book: Discuss your need with your teacher. Then pick up the form to request a tutor form the TD dean’s office.
For a writing tutor: 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.
And seek advice from your teacher during office and appointment hours.
CAREER SERVICES
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.
Career Services Resources for all students: www.yale.edu/career
These resources include:
Individual counseling (To make an appointment, call 432-0800)
Open Office Hours, Mon – Fri noon to 5 PM (UCS at 55 Whitney Ave, third floor).
Workshops and Career Panels (visit the web site)
Premedical Advising (432-0818)
Email Distributioin Lists (sign up in eRecruiting – see below – or email
undergraduate.careerservices@yale.edu to be placed on a list)
Lists include: Arts and Communications, Education, Government, Health Professions
International, Internships, Law, LBGTQ, On-campus Recruiting Program,
Science and Engineering, Social Services and Advocacy, and Sports.
Career, graduate, and professional school information (visit the web site)
Resume, networking (including an alumni network), and job search advice (visit the web site)
UCS library of research materials and other information (visit UCS at 55 Whitney Avenue)
Internship Opportunities on line (to register for eRecruiting database visit
http://yale.erecruiting.com/er/security/login.jsp
FELLOWSHIPS and STUDY ABROAD
For information about Fellowships in general and even for eligibility by class, and about study abroad for the term, year, or summer, visit the web site of the Yale Office of International Education and Fellowships: www.yale.edu/IEFP.
To be placed on an email list for fellowships and study abroad opportunities, visit the web site of IEFP: www.yale.edu/IEFP
The Yale China Teaching Fellowship: The Yale-China Association supports graduating seniors to teach English in China (including Hong Kong). Information Meeting on Tuesday, October 25, 5:30 PM, Luce Hall Common Room, 34 Hillhouse. More information: www.yalechina.org/programs/english_teaching.html
Essay Contest, Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. The Prize in Ethics Essay Contest is an annual competition designed to challenge college students to analyze the urgent ethical issues confronting them in today's complex world. Juniors and seniors are invited to enter the Essay Contest and compete for $10,000 in prizes and the opportunity to meet Elie Wiesel in New York City. Entry forms and additional information about the Contest is available on www.eliewieselfoundation.org. The postmark deadline for the 2006 Essay Contest is Friday, December 9, 2005.
The French Department Information Meeting on Study and Work abroad opportunities in France and other francophone countries/regions and on options offered in the new and improved French Major, including adding a secondary major in International Studies: Wednesday, October 19th at 4 PM in the Romance Languages Lounge, 82-90 Wall St., 3rd floor. Jean-Jacques Poucel, DUS of French and Ruth Koizim, Study and Work Abroad Adviser for the French Department, will be on hand to answer any questions you may have. If you have already spent time studying or working in a francophone country and would like to share your experience with other students, you are invited to attend and say a few words. Refreshments will be served.
NOTES
Finally the rain has stopped and the sun has come out again. I am pretty sure you have noticed the changes in light recently, and maybe especially today. At this time of year, I note several kinds of light. It seems to me the slant of the midday light gets harder as the days shorten. (The softer sunlight of today seems out of time.) And the early morning light seems softened by a thin mist from the water of our place by the sound -- a diaphanous light that barely disguises the coming of cooler days. And the sunsets we can see now as we descend science hill -- fall's translucent clouds that reveal an indirect light. Less apparent is that slant of that orange light occasionally reflected into our upper courtyard from the skyscraper behind TD -- the one with the golden glass. It is a light both in and out of place. Such varieties of natural light limn our daily selves and comings and goings. In our increasingly earlier evenings, the incandescent lights of our TD lanterns seem brighter, and from our courtyard late at night (often too late, I surmise) the indoor lights from our bare windows soften the cool starlight overhead. All in the right place and in the right time. And of course, there is the full moon.
It is the right time to think about friendship. Two memories (and others I will not mention) have connected tonight: One is canoeing with my college roommate last summer for a week in the Allagash Wilderness of Maine, and the other is the time I saw the actual (?) Winnie the Pooh animals at the New York Public Library branch across from MoMA. There were the five of them, sitting together in a glass case in the children's library on the second floor. It was a kind of pilgrimage for me -- and odd to see them in their real (?) selves. Not as real as the Velveteen Rabbit, although the love of many of us for Pooh and his companions may also have loved them into real by now. Eeyore so patched, Piglet so small, Tigger poised energetic, Kanga without Roo, and Pooh's slouch so familiar (even though this bear is not the original one given to Christopher, if I remember right). Five friends, together. Friends of each other and of mine (and some of you, I surmise).
Although comparisons are never quite right, I do now recall that week in the canoe, and I even have the map framed at home with the exact route penciled in red. Two friends, as if no time had passed (someone said that we looked different but were the same people). Which makes me think of you and the friends you have and will have -- friends who come and go and come again, friends who are real enough for a (long) time. You may not know that Yale's Alma Mater celebrates friendship above all else. The first verse ends: "The seasons come, the seasons go;/The earth is green, or white with snow;/But time and change shall naught avail/To break the friendships formed at Yale." You and I know the worth of friendship. Let me assure you that the worth does not subside -- we love each other into existence, into being. From Milne: "Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh!' he whispered. 'Yes, Piglet?' 'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.'" Be sure. It is the right time. It is the right place.
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