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November 25,
2007
confirm: Baraboo
Hello on this clear and cold night, the stars above. Some Notes and News.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
Mellon Senior Forum: Tuesday, December 4, 5:30 PM, Dean Loge’s suite (B-30). Dinner provided. Presenting: Bevan Dowd(Literature.), James Joyce's Ulysses & The Aeneid;
Leland Milstein(Amercain Studies), Photography of New England Churches; Jackie Thompson(Cognitive Science),Word-taste Synesthesia; Robert Nelb (Public Health); and
Faith Rosetta (English).
November 30 is the deadline to relinquish on-campus housing for spring term and thus avoid a fine for relinquishing housing without notification by this deadline. The process is simply to write me a note or email me to let me know. For those approved for a spring term abroad by IEFP or for the Yale in London or PKU/Yale Joint Program do not have to write or email me; your relinquished on-campus housing is assumed.
An invitation from TD Writing Tutor, Diane Charney: “My son, Noah, will be the speaker at a Master's Tea at Calhoun College at 4:30 this Monday, Nov. 26. Although he is being billed as an international art crime expert, because he will also be discussing his debut novel, "The Art Thief," his talk should be of interest to aspiring novelists and creative writers. He will also be speaking at Atticus Books on Thursday, Nov. 29 at 6PM. You are warmly invited to either or both of these events. Here are some web sites about the book, in case you are curious. http://www.elladrondearte.com/ , http://theartthief.info/ , and http://www.noahcharney.com/ ”
ACADEMICS
Next application deadline for Directed Independent Language Study (DILS) is Wednesday, December 5. Information about the language program and application form are available at the DILS web site: www.yale.edu/dils . Interested students can contact DILS@yale.edu or call 432-2502.
Spring term English department courses for freshman and sophomore: Note that the courses contains repeat offerings of English 114, 115, and 120 for those who were unable to take an English course during the fall semester and wish to begin with a first-semester course this spring term. Also offered are the department’s usual second-semester sequels (116b, 117b, 125b, 127b, and 129b) for students who wish to continue with a second term of English; these sequel courses are also open, with permission of the course director, to students who did not take a fall-term course.
Online pre-registration for spring semester English introductory courses will be available beginning at 9 a.m. on December 3 and will remain open through Friday January 11, 2008. At any time during this period students may view the scheduled sections and pre-register for the section of their choice by pointing their web browsers at the English Department website (www.yale.edu/english/undergraduate.html) and following the pre-registration link posted there. Once they’ve made their selection, they will receive an email confirmation.
Note that to secure a place in the section for which they are pre-registered, students must attend ALL meetings of the class until the end of the second week of classes. If they miss a class without prior permission of the instructor, their place will be filled by any students waiting to be admitted to that section.
A printed list of spring term English introductory courses is available in the TD dean’s office for copying or viewing and, of course, at www.yale.edu/oci
SOPHOMORES
Seminars for Sophomores: Visit www.yale.edu/sophomore for list of past fall term seminars as well as seminars for spring term, which are also listed below. Sophomore seminars are listed at the sophomore web sit as they are announced by departments.
ENGL 184b, The Medieval Novel
Lee Patterson T Th 11.35-12.50
A reading of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Malory's Morte d'Arthur, demonstrating that qualities usually associated with the novel, e.g., explorations of psychology, interrelationship of plot and character, narratorial point of view, and so on, are already present in these two great works. Readings in Middle English.
PLSC 228b, Perspectives on the City
Harry Wexler T 5.30-7.20
Introduction to the range of disciplines and methods appropriate to exploring the character and evolution of cities. Each week a scholar from a different field discusses that discipline's approach and methodology in its study of urban life.
Additional seminars limited to sophomores and freshmen
E&EB 171b, Collections of the Peabody Museum
ENAS 115b, Data Analysis and Forecasting
ENGL 144b, Sources of Contemporary American Culture
STUDY ABROAD
The Importance of International Experiences, Tuesday, Dec. 4th, 4:00 p.m. Pierson College Master's House, 261 Park Street. Dean Peter Salovey and Pierson Master Harvey Goldblatt discuss the importance of experiences abroad in cultivating global competency. International experiences have become an important, if not crucial, part of a college education. Whether your future plans include graduate school or full-time employment, employers and universities seek candidates who can function not only as citizens of their local region, but also as citizens of a complex, interconnected world. This event is open to the Yale community and needs no reservation. Refreshments will be served.
SUMMER
The Environmental Studies Internship Program annually awards for close to 30 Yale College Students a year to conduct environmentally-focused summer research projects and internships. Two information sessions are scheduled: Thursday, November 29 and Monday, December 3, 12 noon to 1:30 PM. Each information session will be held in the Calhoun Fellows’ Lounge adjacent to the Calhoun College Dining Hall. (If you wish, pick up your lunch in the dining hall before the meeting.) Further information from Debbie Broadwater, Program Manager, Yale Environmental Studies Program, Office: 210 Prospect Street, Room 102. Tel: (203) 432-9868 or deborah.broadwater@yale.edu
Summer Options Mini Fair: Meet with representatives from Yale affiliated summer programs in an informal fair environment. Friday, November 30, 12-3 pm, UCS, 55 Whitney Ave., 3rd Floor . Included are summer programs abroad.
Summer Internship at the Institut Pasteur in Paris: These 10-week internships at the Institut Pasteur, one of the world's leading private, nonprofit centers for infectious disease research, offer laboratory experience to undergraduates contemplating a career in the sciences. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. Living allowance is $400 per week. See website for information and downloads. Deadline: December 14. Application form and information at: http://www.pasteurfoundation.org/
CAREERS
Careers in Mental Health and Psychology Panel: Speak with a group of panelists including a public health professor, social worker, child psychiatrist, deacon, adult psychiatry resident, medical student, clinical psychology student, camp director and psychology professor. Sponsored by Mind Matters, Yale Chapter of Psi Chi, and YPHC. Wednesday, November 28, 7:30 p.m., LC 102. Desert buffet follow panel presentation.
NOTES
As I have said before after our Thanksgiving break, “Welcome home.” While you were away, if you were away, our Gingko dropped its leaves into a yellow shadow. It happened overnight on Friday. The Gingko is all-of-a-sudden that way. We are now together on our common ground, in our community on the land of the Gingko’s shadow and our Gingko greets you. With the leaves down in many places around our campus, often we see for the first time what was until now hidden -- buildings, lights, the roll of the land. Under the bare trees and gray sky I find I notice color where before I saw none. Luce Hall seems yellow. The buttons for the college gates are a brighter green than before. The skin of Gibbs Lab is the blue sky it once blocked. The lights in the dining hall and TD Library seem warmer than before.
Our campus shows itself anew under such natural and incandescent light. Twilight comes early as the sun rushes from southeast to southwest, and across the western sky are the washes of dusk yellows, purples, blues -- colors so transient and elemental that they darken and are gone sometimes faster than we notice them. The stars seem clearer and closer in the chilly November air. My sight thus refreshed, I welcome the symmetry of our Temple Street gate and the TD tower against the evening sky. Home again, I will try to pause again -- pause anew -- during the fast forward of these final weeks as we shudder in our scarves, pocket our hands against the cold, and stuff ourselves into coats.
And the cold wind. Hal Borland reflects on the winter wind: "It roars in the night, an elemental voice; it whistles at the house [and TD] corner and it rattles the shutter and the pane. Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth . . . . It is a homeless wind, forever on the move." Imagining the wind this way, it may connect us to our friends and family. Maybe we just came from there; maybe wish we had. I am comforted, though, when I think the wind that blows against my face also may blow against the faces of the ones I love, even those far away. In that way, the wintry windy currents keep me "in touch." Our friends are here (and there) for us.
Two more weeks of classes remain. Someone said the final 10% of any work seems requires 90% of the effort. It certainly can feel like that sometimes. We may think of our limitations in the cold currents and in our rooms with so much to do. Of course we want to do well, and I (for one) know I must accept the personal disappointment of doing some things only so-so – only “good enough.” Also, maybe we cannot finish all we started in the ways we planned. Accepting and living with our limitations takes practice, alas. And a mighty practice it can be (again alas). No matter, because we must have the confidence that we have succeeded before, in class and out, at Yale and other places. And our friends are here (and there) for us. There and here at home. Best wishes to all of us in our place of finishing as best we can and in our latitudes of learning to feel the currents of our connections to each other here and to others far away. And we still must voice our joy when we can, as we do at any place where we may feel at home.
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