TIMOTHY DWIGHT

Flu message: If you have a temperature over 100, call the Yale Flu Line: 866-924-9253. Thermometers are available in the TD dean’s office.

If you feel sick and your temperature is under 100, you may call or visit Student Medicine at UHS on weekdays 8:30 AM – 5 PM (432-0312), or call or visit Urgent Visits at UHS on weekends and after 5 PM (432-0123).

For medical emergencies, call Yale Campus Police (432-4400).

TD Step: Join TD STEP on Old Campus this Thursday, October 8th at 9 pm for STEP’s second annual Let’s Blackout, an all campus “lights-out” event to raise awareness about residential energy use. Enjoy FREE s’mores, hot chocolate, and a special showing of WALL-E! BYOBlanket-and-Mug.

ACADEMICS

Deadlines:

October 14:

Deadline to apply for a spring-term 2010 Term Abroad. Application information and materials at www.yale.edu/yalecollege/international

October 23:

Midterm; last day to withdraw from a fall-term course without having the course appear on the transcript; deadline to apply for double-credit for a single-credit course; withdrawal from Yale College on or before this date entitles a student to a rebate of one-quarter of the term’s tuition. The form is available in your TD dean’s office.

November 6

Last day to convert from the CR/D/Fail option in a fall-term course to a letter grade. The form is available in your TD dean’s office.

Center for Language Study Fall Open House, Friday, October 9th, 12:00pm to 2:00pm , 370 Temple Street.

FRESHMEN

Listening and Note-taking Skills Workshop, Tuesday, October 6, 4:00 pm, LC 101, and repeated on Wednesday, October 7, 9:00 pm, LC 101. Presentation by Mark Schenker, Associate Dean of Yale College, Listening and taking notes are frequent tasks in college,but few students think about how to improve their note-taking skills. This workshop uses videotapes of lectures to diagnose what problems you are experiencing and to help you develop strategies for taking more useful notes during class. No sign-up or registration is required, but bring a notebook, and a pen or pencil with you. The presentation lasts one hour.

SOPHOMORES

Sophomore Advising Night, October 7, 9 – 10 PM, TD South Common Room. Learn about choosing a major, summer jobs here and abroad, study abroad, and fellowships. Presenters include Dean Philip Jones, the Director of Career Services, and Karyn Jones of the Yale Center for International Experience. Ice cream social afterwards with TD juniors and seniors who will be available to talk about their majors.

Center for Language Study Fall Open House, Friday, October 9th, 12:00pm to 2:00pm , 370 Temple Street. Learn about Directed Independent Study (DILS) of foreign languages not taught at Yale and other special programs of the Center.

Spanish Major Information Meeting: Thursday, October 15, 4 PM, Romance Languages Lounge, 82-90 Wall, third floor. Offered by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Learn about the major, meet the professors, learn about their programs and study abroad opportunities. Refreshments will be served.

SENIORS

UCS Senior Series: Getting from College to a Career. Wednesday, October 7, 7 PM, LC 102. Author and workplace expert Lindsey Pollak, ‘96, shares insights from her book, Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to do before you join the Real World. Learn her top tips for Yale job seekers and even how to gain free access to a premium-level LinkedIn account.

NOTES

On the weekend before Family Weekend on a previous October day, a red-tail hawk caught my eye as I drove up I-95. It rode the thermals on that sunny day, wings and tail feathers spread, its head cocked slightly, scanning the ground among the trees.  Further on I saw another one.  Occasionally, one is seen over our campus, like some stray osprey who visits a distant and tiny pond on its way to another place.  A strange circumstance.

As I write each year at this time, “circumstance” is a word on my mind as Family Weekend approaches. Each of us comes from different circumstances, and these different circumstances affect our different lives here. Maybe family will visit us this weekend, maybe not; maybe our midterms will be over, probably not; probably we are a little behind in our work, maybe a lot. “Circumstance” in these examples is a concept that can separate us one from another.. Another sense of the word, however, lifts and delights me (I am grateful to Jose Ortega y Gasset): “Circumstance” comes from the Latin “circum” (”around”) and “stare” (”to stand”). He uses the word to name that which is, that which is around us — the given of the actual world, the fact of it. In this sense each of us stands before the same common circumstance while each of us has different individual circumstances.

As I watched those soaring red-tails, I thought of my perspective from the ground at 55 mph, and I tried to imagine the hawks’ perspective from above.  Best of all, though, I thought of the hawk and me together, of my place in our shared circumstance in the cool October air near actual trees (especially by our Gingko), of our actual standing, of the actual buildings that are our college and New Haven, and of the actual grass of our courtyard. So, like that red-tail, may we also be lifted by our places in common, the built and natural world around us, and the imagined thermals that rise from our common ground.

Whatever your circumstances — and standing with you within our circumstance in common– I send you my encouragement and my wish that you have confidence as you prepare for your tests and write your papers and problem sets. And, on Family Weekend, if you know someone whose family is unable to visit that day, maybe you can join your circumstance with theirs and invite that someone to join you and your family.

The hawks flew their way, and I drove mine.  I could not help but envy their flight and (imagined) freedom.  I took them to myself, though, as I went my way, grateful that I saw them, grateful that I saw them and me, and now grateful that I see me in a different way.

See you around the courtyard.

Hello on this drizzling fall evening. Some Notes and News.

ACADEMICS

Deadlines:

October 14:

Deadline to apply for a spring-term 2010 Term Abroad. Application information and materials at www.yale.edu/yalecollege/international

October 23:

Midterm; last day to withdraw from a fall-term course without having the course appear on the transcript; deadline to apply for double-credit for a single-credit course; withdrawal from Yale College on or before this date entitles a student to a rebate of one-quarter of the term’s tuition. The form is available in your TD dean’s office.

November 6

Last day to convert from the CR/D/Fail option in a fall-term course to a letter grade. The form is available in your TD dean’s office.

Yale MA in Urban Education Studies. Intensive preparation for transformational teaching. 1 yr of study, fully funded and with guaranteed placement in New Haven. Learn more at www.yale.edu/urbanteaching . Contact Admissions at urbanteaching@yale.edu.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT

Flu message: If you have a temperature over 100, call the Yale Flu Line: 866-924-9253. Thermometers are available in the TD dean’s office.

If you feel sick and your temperature is under 100, you may call or visit Student Medicine at UHS on weekdays 8:30 AM – 5 PM (432-0312), or call or visit Urgent Visits at UHS on weekends and after 5 PM (432-0123).

For medical emergencies, call Yale Campus Police (432-4400).

TD Poetry Workshop reminder: The first session of the TD poetry workshop will be this Thursday, October 1, 7 - 8PM, in Cynthia Zarin’s office, TD B-008. If you are planning to attend, please bring to the first meeting twelve copies of a poem you’ve written and/or twelve copies of a one page poem you admire. (contact: cynthia.zarin@yale.edu )

TD HAWK WATCH OPPORTUNITY AT LIGHTHOUSE PARK – WATCH FOR EMAIL

Jeff Brenzel, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and a TD resident fellow (you may have seen him around our courtyard) is also an avid birder. He let me know that Connecticut is getting into the thick of the hawk migration season. He also let me know that one of the premiere hawk watch stations in the country happens to be about 12 minutes away from TD by car, over at Lighthouse Point Park in East Haven. From September -November the volunteer station there records about 15,000 raptors funneling through on their way down the coast, primarily to South America.

When he was teaching in Directed Studies, he took his students out there, and they found it pretty amazing. He wrote to me, “On a good day, creatures fly right by your nose. On a great day, 1200 or so hawks (broad-wing, red-tailed, red-shouldered, cooper’s, sharpshin, harrier), falcons (peregrine, merlin, kestrel) plus the occasional eagle will zip over the watch station at Lighthouse Point. On a poor day it might only be 10 or 15 birds total for the full day. Some students may know that flocks of people migrate to famous Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania every fall to see such wondrous things, yet only a small number of people in this area seem to know that we have virtually equal numbers and variety of raptors migrating through here.”

So here’s the opportunity. Dean Brenzel says that prevailing winds generally determine the good days. The best days follow a cold front with the wind coming out of the north or northeast, because the birds get a tremendous boost if they ride the air currents going south. The heaviest flights are usually in the morning. Dean Brenzel has agreed to watch the weather forecasts and provide a couple of days notice when he thinks we’re likely to catch a multitude of hawks on the wing through the park. I’ll post a sign-up email to everyone, first come first served for spaces available in the cars. We’ll leave at 8:15 am sharp on the designated day. We’ll hustle over and send cars back as needed to get people to campus for classes. If you have binoculars, you will want to bring them. Dean Brenzel has four pairs he can lend out, plus a spotting scope.

FRESHMEN

Freshman Study Break with Peer Liaisons. The TD Peer Liaisons are sponsoring a study break for freshmen. Wednesday, September 30, 10 – 11 PM, TD Buttery. Come enjoy Kumo’s Sushi! Meet the Peer Liaisons and learn more about the program!

SOPHOMORES

Spanish Major Information Meeting: Thursday, October 15, 4 PM, Romance Languages Lounge, 82-90 Wall, third floor. Offered by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Learn about the major, meet the professors, learn about their programs and study abroad opportunities. Refreshments will be served.

Sophomore Advising Night, October 7, 9 – 10 PM, TD South Common Room. Learn about choosing a major, summer jobs here and abroad, study abroad, and fellowships. Presenters include Dean Philip Jones, the Director of Career Services, and Karyn Jones of the Yale Center for International Experience. Ice cream social afterwards with TD juniors and seniors who will be available to talk about their majors.

STUDY ABROAD

Study Abroad on the Yale-Peking Program Yale-PKU Information Session, Tuesday, September 29, 12:30pm – 1:30pm, Center for International Experience, 55 Whitney Ave; 3rd floor, rm. 305. General information session about the Peking University-Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program in Beijing, a study abroad program for Yale course credit. “It is an intimate encounter with Beijing to understand the mind of China. If you don’t understand China today, then you won’t understand the world tomorrow.”

NOTES

On a rainy and indoor day like this one, with lots to do before my head again hits the pillow, I once found myself day-dreaming of other places — the cottage by the lake where I spent time this summer, or some exotic and imagined place I could go — some way to escape the [necessary] burden of choices, the impulse to do it all, the [unnecessary] expectation to be perfect every time. Perhaps, as you might know yourself, I look out and away in order to escape my awareness of my limitations. No wonder; papers and problem sets keep coming due, tests have come or are coming, reading increases even as we are already behind – even in the face of the pleasure in our friends, in what we do accomplish with satisfaction, and in some sense of fun (I hope there is also some fun even in reading, writing, and problem solving).

Speaking of fun and physics, I remember a pool game with a friend. It renewed me in ways I hoped and in ways I did not expect. I learned [again], for instance, that I cannot do everything and that I must look to my own needs to decide what I will keep and what I will let go. I chose time to be with him and said “no” to something else. Saying “no” was not easy, as you might know yourself. I did it as thoughtfully as I could, but I also know myself well enough [usually] to know I would disappoint myself if I chose otherwise. And I will disappoint others if I cannot be trusted to choose for myself. We all want to do well, and I [a survey of one] know I cannot abide for long the constant personal disappointment of doing many things only so-so. Maybe we earn the respect of others because we are brave enough to choose. I like to think so.

I encourage you to think so, too. Accepting and living with our limitations may indeed be more courageous than we may assume off hand. I wonder what other places and lives for yourselves you may have on your mind this Sunday as I have the cottage on my mind. Even so, let each of give each of us best wishes for a week of personal satisfaction in work well done [or as well done as we can for now].

PS We played nine ball, and he won. No money changed hands, thank goodness.

PPS: Another friend, Gardner Moulton, a builder of wooden canoes, sent me this response to Notes once [Aren’t friends such an important part of our lives!]:  “I am reminded of the talk I heard at a wooden boat builders’ weekend given by the late John Gardner. He was the guru of wooden boat building, spearheading the resurgence of the craft among amateurs and small entrepreneurs. After his talk he fielded questions, one [asking] what was the most important thing for the beginner to learn. I eagerly anticipated his reply, thinking perhaps I’d learn about a book I’d overlooked, or a special tool, or a way to organize my shop. His answer surprised me. “Start,” he replied. . . . I then thought about the year or so my shop had sat idle, one strip oddly misshapen on my stations. In truth I feared starting. I might make a mistake, I might use the wrong glue, I might break the second strip trying to bend it. All these “mights” piling up to form a do-nothing wall.”

PPPS: Gardner finished the canoe and last year he gave it to me. I drove to Florida, put it on top of my car, and drove it back to CT. Now that, I think, is about friends!

Now that everyone is settling into their classes and getting into somewhat of a routine, I would like to announce our 09-10 Master’s Aides and what areas of TD they are in charge of. If you have any questions you can always email them.

Congratulations to the following TD Master’s Aides:

Ivan Soares - Chief Aide, Fall Semester

James McGinty - Chief Aide, Spring Semester

Sydney Lapeyrolerie - Fellows’ Aide

Tara Brantley - IM Secretary

Will Hwang - IM Secretary

Nahrek Hartoonian - IM Secretary

Kaylee Weil - IM Secretary

Nicole Wolfe - Kitchen

Karissa Britten - Kitchen

Brandon Berger - Darkroom

Katherine Chen - Laundry Room

Josh Pan - Library

Emma Sokoloff-Rubin - Art Room

Pat Cascarano - Weight/Aerobics Room

Jamile Kadre - TV/Game Room

Jalal Osman - Recording Studio

Michael Waxman - Recording Studio

Wes Phillips - Music Room

Christian Ndreko - Clerical/Postering

Spencer Bradley - Clerical/Postering

Rebecca Jackson - Keys

Drew Rowny - Clerical

A few notes about the TD Buttery from Buttmasters Bradley Pough and Henry Lukoma:

Let’s all cooperate and make sure we all keep TD clean. This is your home and we want everyone to appreciate it. Please make sure you do not leave any food in the hallways as this creates unwanted creatures. If it has to be thrown out please use the trash/recycle barrels located in the basements of TD and RH. Remember to recycle. It’s important to bring dishes back to the dining hall before you accumulate too many.

Laundry Room Etiquette:

If you are doing your laundry please keep an eye on it. If you have to leave it for any reason leave a note or send a friend to retrieve it. Throw away any empty bottles or used dryer sheets. If you find clothes in a dryer and need to use it, please put them in a neat pile. Remember, it could be yours next time, so handle it like you would want someone else to handle yours.

TD Facebook:

If you have any pictures you would like displayed in the 09-10 TD Facebook please send them to Drew Rowny, Christian Ndreko or Spencer Bradley.

Mail Room:

The mail room is located before entryway “C” at the top of the stairs when you enter the 345 Temple St. gate. You will need your room key for access. If you receive any mail from the USPS, other than you PO Box, it will be delivered there without any notification. The only time we notify you is when a package is delivered to the Master’s Office. It is your responsibility to check your mail slot either on a daily basis or weekly basis. Sometimes there are important messages sent from various departments. All mail will be disposed of between semesters.

Recording Studio:

Want to be the next Taylor Swift? Or Kayne West? (too soon?) Lay down a track in the TD recording studio, which is open to all TD students by appointment. Just e-mail michael.waxman@yale.edu and jalal.osman@yale.edu with times that work well for you and a little bit about what you’re looking to record. Appointments are scheduled in 2 hour blocks, and are available for individual/band use only (registered student groups cannot make appointments). For more info, check out http://www.tdhitfactory.com.

Art Room:

Taking an art class? Just love doing art on your own? No floor space in your room for the massive project you have in mind? The TD art room is open to all TDers and has various workspaces (tables, easles, counters, sinks) as well as basic art supplies (paint, brushes, paper, paper cutters) and fun materials I’ve gathered over the past year.  To gain access to the art room, just stop by the master’s office and fill out the form.  Use the art room any time of day or night, but please clean up after yourself.  If you are in the middle of a project, store it in the cabinets on the right side of the room.  If there are supplies you’d like to use that aren’t there, email me (emma.sokoloff-rubin@yale.edu) and let me know - TD can’t cover all supplies, but I’ll do my best.

The Weight Room and Multi-Purpose Room are both great ways for TD to stay on top of the IM leaderboard. Everyone should remember to keep the equipment clean and wipe it down before and after use. If you use weights, please put them back on the rack after use. Thanks, Pat

To Use Selin Lounge:
- You must be a student in TD.
- You must request access (which will then be valid for the rest of the year) from Karen McGovern in the TD Masters Office.
- You should sign up for the time slot you would like.  Please do not reserve Selin for blocks of time longer than what you need.  For example, you cannot reserve it for six hours just because you don’t know what time you want to start watching a movie.
- To ensure this does not occur, if you reserve Selin and arrive more than 15 minutes after the start of your reservation time, you can’t kick someone out who is in there watching something already.
- Please do not sign up for a time slot earlier than a month in advance of when you would like to use Selin.
- If you decide to use Selin at the last minute and it is not occupied, you can just put your name on the calendar at that point and use it.
- Do NOT use video games on this equipment or unplug any cables to plug in something else.
- If you have any questions, please e-mail Jamile Kadre at jamile.kadre@yale.edu.

To Use the Game Room:
- If you are eating/drinking something, please clean up after yourself when you are finished.
- If you move any furniture, please put it back the way you found it when you leave.
- Please use the remote control when watching TV and do not change the equipment set-up (by unplugging cables, etc.).
- Please put any games you play in the game cabinet when you are done, and pool cues/balls, etc. back in their proper places.
- HAVE FUN!
- If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail Jamile Kadre at jamile.kadre@yale.edu

The TD Student Kitchen is available to all TD students for cooking/baking.  If you would like to use the Student Kitchen please be sure to reserve it ahead of time.  In order to reserve your preferred time just go to: http://tdkitchen.webs.com/ and follow the instructions on the website that tell you how to sign up.

There is additional information on the website regarding getting the key during your assigned time and what to do after you are done using the kitchen.  It is very important that all students that use the kitchen clean up after themselves.  If you use pots or pans please wash them and put them away.  Also, be sure to wipe down the counters and put all ingredients/food away.   Keeping the kitchen clean is vital so that the kitchen can stay up and running!!

Best,

Nicole

Music Room:

Hello, TDers! My name is Wes Phillips and I am the Master’s Aide for the music room (located in the basement). The music room is available at your disposal after you sign up in the Master’s Office. There is currently a drum set and keyboard in the room that are ready to rock and roll! Later this week, I will put a new empty schedule on the door for everyone to request practice times. If you have any questions, ideas or concerns, please contact me at wes.phillips@yale.edu.

Best,

Wes

Library:

Hi there TD, this is Joshua Pan, the Master’s Aide in charge of the TD library in here. The TD library is one of the most fabulous in the residential colleges (just go take a look at Silliman’s library sometime), and it’s where you can get your p-sets and papers done with the good company of TD’ers. A few rules:

1) This year, we are not allowing food or drink into the library. It’s pretty gross to try to work next to someone’s crumbs and leftover coffee, so please just take your snack outside and have a study break.

2) You can look at the books in the TD library shelves, but please don’t take them out for now, keep them in the library. I’m working on getting a checkout system going for books that will be up and running soon.

We also have some funds for purchasing books, so please contact me at joshua.pan@yale.edu for any suggestions of good books, or questions or complaints about the library.

Best,

Josh

Dark Room: To be announced. We are taking a poll of how many are interested in using the Dark Room. If anyone is interested please contact brandon.berger@yale.edu and karen.mcgovern@yale.edu

Hello again on this beautifully one-day-from-fall day. Some Notes and News

TIMOTHY DWIGHT

Yale Flu Line: 866-924-YALE. If UHS confirms to me that you have the flu and if you quarantine yourself as expected, meals will be delivered to you from the TD dining hall.

A Message from Mott Woolley: “In an effort to improve the security of our wonderful college, Mott Woolley is looking for TDers to serve on a security council dedicated to assessing safety issues in TD. The council would meet independently to discuss security concerns and help moderate a community forum on safety as well. If you’d like to be on the council or find out more about it, please email Eleanor Wertman at eleanor.wertman@yale.edu .”

TD Poetry Workshop: Cynthia Zarin, Fellow of TD, will be offering a poetry workshop open to members of Timothy Dwight: readers and writers of poetry are welcome. Our first

meeting will be Thursday, October 1st, at 7PM, in her office in TD, room B008. Refreshments included. Cynthia Zarin, is the author of three books of poetry published by Alfred A. Knopf, The Swordfish Tooth, Fire Lyric, and The Watercourse, as well as five books for children. She is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker. Her new book of poems will be published by Knopf in 2010. If you are interested, please email her at cynthia.zarin@yale.edu .

TD STEP (Student Taskforce for Environmental Partnership). The TD Coordinators for this semester are Victoria Charette, TD ‘11 (victoria.charette@yale.edu), and Olivia Rogan, TD ‘12 (olivia.rogan@yale.edu ). STEP is the peer education and outreach program of the Office of Sustainability. Victoria and Olivia encourage TD students to contact them with any questions about solid waste, recycling, energy use, or ways to get involved in environmental work at Yale.

Sophomore Advising Night, October 7, 9 – 10 PM, TD South Common Room. Ice cream social afterwards with juniors and seniors who can talk about their choices of majors.

ACADEMICS

BA-BA/MPH Program Information Session: Tuesday, September 22, Yale School of Public Health , 60 College Street, Room 101. The Select Program in Public Health offers Yale College students interested in public health the opportunity to earn a Bachelor’s degree from Yale College and an MPH degree from the Yale School of Public Health in a five year joint degree program. Yale College students must apply to the program in the fall semester of their junior year. Program directors and current students will lead the discussion which will cover the academic program, areas of concentration and the admissions process. Questions to Anne F. Pistell, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Yale School of Public Health, 203-785-6260 and anne.pistell@yale.edu .

Deadlines:

September 26:

Withdrawal from Yale College on or before this date entitles a student to a rebate

of one-half of fall-term tuition. Meet with me if your are considering withdrawal.

October 14:

Deadline to apply for a spring-term 2010 Term Abroad. Application information and materials at www.yale.edu/yalecollege/international

October 23:

Midterm; last day to withdraw from a fall-term course without having the course appear on the transcript; deadline to apply for double-credit for a single-credit course; withdrawal from Yale College on or before this date entitles a student to a rebate of one-quarter of the term’s tuition. The form is available in your TD dean’s office.

November 6

Last day to convert from the CR/D/Fail option in a fall-term course to a letter grade. The form is available in your TD dean’s office.

ABROAD WORK AND STUDY

Yale-China Teaching Fellowships: The Yale-China Association, a non-profit organization based on the Yale campus, has been sending Yale graduates on two-year teaching fellowships to China since 1909. The fellowships come with financial support, intensive language instruction in Mandarin or Cantonese, and training in teaching English as a foreign language. The Yale-China Teaching Fellowship is an exceptional opportunity for personal, intellectual, and professional discovery. Fellows live and teach in China for two years, study Chinese, and receive on-going professional support throughout their experience. The self-discovery and cross-cultural fluency that results from the two years of immersion has inspired many former Yale-China Fellows to become leaders in international or China-related fields.

Yale-China Fellows spend two years teaching English at one of five host institutions. They receive a salary from their host schools, free housing, medical insurance, Chinese instruction, and transportation to and from the United States at the beginning and at the conclusion of their fellowship. Mainland China-based Fellows also receive a stipend from Yale-China. The Fellowship is open to anyone who has graduated from Yale College in the past five years, including the class of 2010. Recent graduates of Yale’s professional schools and graduate programs are also encouraged to apply. Prior teaching experience and/or academic background in Chinese language are not required.

Application deadline: Thursday, December 3..Application and information: http://www.yalechina.org/dynamicpage.php?Id=9&SubId=29 . Questions to Katie Molteni Muir, (203) 436-8362 or katie.molteni@yale.edu.

Teaching Abroad Panel, Thursday, September 24, 6:00pm, UCS, Room 369, 55 Whitney Avenue, 3rd Floor. This panel will cover 1) factors to consider in your search, 2) the acquisition of necessary documentation and certifications, and 3) the job search process – including the types of online resources to locate an international teaching job. Panelists will include several representatives of international teaching programs, including WorldTeach and The China Education Initiative as well as a recent alum, who just returned from teaching in Japan.

International Opportunities Fair: Friday, September 25, 1-3 PM, Lanman Center, Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Those interested in interning or working abroad will have the opportunity to speak with representatives of internship/work exchange programs, foreign work authorization programs, and some non-profit organizations offering internship, volunteer and full-time opportunities. In addition, representatives from over 35 study abroad programs and foreign universities will be on hand to talk to students about their programs.

Yale/Peking Joint Program. Information Session, September 23, 2:30pm – 3:30pm, Center for International Experience, 55 Whitney Ave; 3rd floor rm. 305. General information session about the Peking University-Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program in Beijing (a study abroad program for Yale course credit). Questions to Kathy Trputec, (203) 432-8477.

YUNA (Yale University – New Asia College) Exchange information session, Tuesday, September 22, Davenport Common Room, 8:30 p.m. This year’s theme is Development and Sustainability. YUNA is a reciprocal, themed exchange program. Participants spend two weeks hosting a group of students from New Asia College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and visit Hong Kong during spring break. This year’s theme is “Development and Sustainability.”

Last year’s YUNA participants will be at the session to share their experiences and talk about the program. Eligible for the program are sophomores and juniors. Application Deadline: September 30, 2009 at noon. For more information, contact Yale-China Association Director of Student Programs Katie Molteni Muir at (203) 436-8362 or at katie.molteni@yale.edu.

NOTES

For no apparent reason, on this weekend as summer passes to fall, I looked over my books. Along the way, I stopped at The Phantom Tollbooth.  There Milo is, opening a package addressed “FOR MILO, WHO HAS PLENTY OF TIME.”  Now there’s a concept, I thought, ”plenty of time.”  The semester has really begun, and that sense of “plenty of time” may begin to recede.   Then in the second chapter, on the other side of the tollbooth, he says to himself: “This game is much more serious than I thought, for here I am riding on a road I’ve never seen, going to a place I’ve never heard of, and all because of a tollbooth which came from nowhere.  I’m certainly glad that it’s a nice day for a trip.”  Yes, and here we are as we have begun our new endeavors on this side of the tollbooth of bright sunshine that seems to come from nowhere, all of a sudden.  And from nowhere it seems comes the exuberance and excitement of warm air, warm rooms, and warm bodies.

With a spontaneity most natural and good comes plenty of time for play and laughter, for the company of others.  Some days at Yale, of course, can be difficult; life is sometimes more serious than we thought or expected or experienced.  Life at Yale can also sometimes be very much less serious.  The contrast is sometimes puzzling and disquieting, too. In the necessary order of our deliberate and conscious lives and of the unexpected that life might bring, however, there needs to be time for just being alive in the comfort and company of others.  I want to remind myself, and all of us that we need not save up such times for another day; rather, I want to suggest we need to spend such time every day, somehow and in some way:  A laugh out of nowhere. A flash of a smile. A kindness unexpected. A little dance as if no one is watching.  A little love as if we’ve never lost. Taking a seat in the dining hall near someone we do not know (yet). Spontaneity is natural and we are creatures of nature.

With a final summer day like today, I, like Milo, feel glad under the sun and the moon, facing like me our summer’s receding green. I renew my sense of foreground and background, of behind and ahead, of being somewhere and heading someplace else.  A tollbooth is a kind of passage, after all, to other places of work and play beyond expectations and experience. If I see you dance for a moment to some rhythm from somewhere else or laugh to yourself for no apparent reason, I will know what you are up to in plenty of time – to no particular good, just the good.

Hello again on this warm and still summer day. Some Notes and News

TIMOTHY DWIGHT

Flu: If you think you have symptoms of the flu, call the TD dean’s office: 203-432-0754 to let us know. You will be advised to call UHS for confirmation and advice, and you will then be asked to stay in your room until 24 hours after your temperature breaks.

Useful Phone Numbers

TD Dean’s Office (203) 432-0754

TD Master’s Office (2030 432-0770

Yale Flu Line: 203-924-YALE

Yale Escort Service (203) 432-9255 (2-WALK)
Yale Minibus (203) 432-6330
Yale Police (203) 432-4400
Yale Security -(203) 785-5555
Yale Urgent Care [weekends and after 5 PM] (203) 432-0123

Student Medicine [weekdays 8:30 – 5 PM] (203) 432-0312

Yale SHARE (203) 432-6653
Yale Facilities [for repairs and heating issues] (203) 432-6888

Useful Websites

Yale Libraries: http://www.library.yale.edu/

Swine Flu Info: http://www.yale.edu/secretary/emergency/swineflu.html

SHARE: http://www.yale.edu/yhp/med_services/share.html
Mental Health: http://www.yale.edu/uhs/students/mental_health.html
Student Health: http://www.yale.edu/uhs/students/index.html

La Casa: http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/cultural/lacasa//
AACC: http://www.yale.edu/aacc/
NACC: http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/cultural/nacc/
Af-Am House:  http://www.yale.edu/afam/
Chaplain’s Office:  http://www.yale.edu/chaplain/
Multi-Faith Calendar:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/tools/calendar/
Yale’s Multi-Faith Calendar:  http://www.yale.edu/chaplain/documents/finalcalendar.pdf
Women’s Center:  http://www.yale.edu/wc/
Queer Peers:  http://www.yale.edu/queerpeers/
LGBTQ Resource Center:  http://www.yale.edu/lgbt/
Shuttle Bus: http://www.yale.edu/transportationoptions/shuttle/

You can view the shuttle bus locations in real time at www.yale.transloc.com .

ACADEMICS

Course Schedule Deadlines

Class of 2013: Monday, September 14, 5 PM
Classes of 2011 and 2012: Tuesday, September 15, 5 PM
Class of 2010: Wednesday, September 16, 5 PM

A late schedule incurs a fine of $50

A late schedule cannot elect any courses CR/D/Fail

Fine for a clerical error on your schedule: $50

A schedule with fewer than 4.0 course credits and more than 5.5 course credits requires my permission before the schedule is handed in.

Class meeting times may not overlap by more than 15 minutes once a week 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 or a professional school that is not listed in the Blue Book 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 a syllabus attached by the deadline for your course schedule.

Note: Credits for graduate and professional school course courses: When you put a Graduate or Professional School course on your schedule, zero (0) course credits are given the course until you hand in to my office the form for graduate school courses (syllabus attached) and the registrar’s office determines the course credits for that course after that.

Including or Removing a course after printing your schedule: Including or removing a course (after meeting with your adviser, for instance) can be written on the printed final schedule itself (in the Include and Remove Sections), and each change must be initialed by your adviser or me before the deadline for handing in your schedule.

Changes in Classes and their Meeting Times and Places: Courses changes and 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 as needed.

List of QR and Science courses without prerequisite: http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/sqr/qr/courses.html

The Fields Program for undergraduates interested in pursuing advanced, discipline-specific language study. The deadline for applications for acceptance into the next cohort of Fields students is October 1st. Further information from Vincent.cagiano@yale.edu 432-0584. Those studying less-commonly taught languages are particularly encouraged to apply, as opportunities to undertake discipline-specific and advanced-level language study are often scarce for such languages. Fields students spend up to two years following a highly individualized program of advanced-level foreign language study, in which language practice is linked to students’ majors or other areas of academic and intellectual interest, including classroom and independent study, regular sessions with a native-speaking language partner, mentoring from a professional in the student’s major field of interest, fieldwork opportunities such as internships and study abroad, discipline-specific instructional materials, assessment of language proficiency, and coordination of the overall Fields experience. More information about the Fields Program is available at: http://www.cls.yale.edu/fields

TUTORING

Writing Tutors:  http://www.yale.edu/bass

Writing Partners: www.yale.edu/writing
Sc/QR Tutoring: http://www.yale.edu/mstutor and http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/students/programs/tutoring/science/science.html
Language Tutoring: http://www.cls.ale.edu/tutoring

Message from TD Writing Tutor, Diane Charney: “Although when I look at my tutoring schedule, nothing makes me happier than to see it filled with TDers, in recent years I have been more popular than I’d like with students from other colleges who get to the Scheduler first. So this year I took the risk of only putting on the Scheduler about half of my weekly quota of hours, which will allow me to save the rest for TDers in need.

I’m pleased that many of you with deadlines who have not been able to find a time have written to me directly so that we can try to get you in. Once you are registered with the Scheduler, I can often add time for you, even if all the slots appear to be taken, so please do email me if you do not find a time that works for you.

You are also welcome to just stop by, even if a particular slot is filled, and we can try to make alternative plans. I look forward to seeing you!

PS: Please don’t be shy about signing up ahead of time, well in advance of your deadline, since to do so preserves the time for a TDer. If you have a change of plans and need to cancel, even at the last minute, that’s not a problem. And please remember that you do not have to come with a finished draft in hand. Some of the most productive sessions can be just brainstorming, which can save you a lot of time, later.”

DEPARTMENTAL MEETINGS

International Studies Major Information Sessions: Come with your questions about the major and the application. Friday, September 11, 1:30-2:30pm; Friday, October 9, 1:30-2:30pm;

Monday, November 9, 5:00-6:00pm. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 203.

Application Deadline: November 16, 2009. open to Sophomores (’12) and Juniors (’11)

Applications available: by request at international.studies@yale.edu and www.yale.edu/macmillan/iac/bainternational.htm

STUDY ABROAD

International Opportunities Fair: Friday, 9/25/09, 1-3 PM, Lanman Center, Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Those interested in interning or working abroad can speak with representatives of internship and work exchange programs, foreign work authorization programs, and some non-profit organizations offering internship, volunteer and full-time opportunities. In addition, representatives from over 35 study abroad programs and foreign universities will be on hand to talk to students about their programs.

Yale/Peking Joint Program Information Session: Tuesday, September 15, 3:30pm – 4:30pm, Center for International Experience, 55 Whitney Ave; 3rd floor, room. 369. Further information on the program at www.yale.edu/yalecollege/international

International Opportunities Night on Old Campus, Wednesday, September 16, 6-7:30 PM, LC 102. Representatives from the Center for International Experience will be there to discuss and answer questions about study, intern, research, and funding opportunities at Yale.  Programs and offices will include: Year or Term Abroad, Summer Study Abroad, Yale Summer Session Study Abroad, PKU-Yale Joint Program, Yale-in-London, Light Fellowship, MacMillan Center fellowships, Office of Fellowship Programs, UCS International Bulldogs Programs, International Summer Award program.

Peer Liaisons to the Office of LGBTQ Resources: Students may individually request to be contacted by a Peer Liaison at the web site http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/advising/special/peers/request/index.html

Beginning 9/13 are weekly meetings of NSSF: Not-So-Straight-Frosh, an inclusive social group by, for, and about LGBTQ first-years and Allies. Sunday nights from 7-9 PM in the Chaplains Office in the basement of Bingham Hall. For more information, email NSSFyale@gmail.com . Beginning 9/15, pairs of Peer Liaisons will host the Peer Liaison Roundtable: Weekly discussions about issues especially relevant to LGBTQ first-years and allies at Yale.  9:30-10:30 pm Tuesdays in Dwight Hall library on Old Campus.

NOTES

Last year on this Sunday before schedules are due, I went to a beach on Long Island Sound to relax on a chaise. I drew the chaise up and into the shallow water so that it would wash under me. I looked out over the water, reflecting and remembering and leaving room for perspective. I imagine that in your busy lives you do not schedule times for reflection.. I recommend you do your best to leave some time aside for that.

I think what I thought about last year is what I want to say again at this time in our term.

Like you, probably far from home, I try to translate a lesson from one place to another where I may find myself.  I got to remembering my first job at a new private elementary school, so small that I was the business manager at the ripe age of 24, in addition to my teaching. (This story is going someplace).  My new responsibilities included organizing and working with parent volunteers to fix up the school (which was always short of funds).  One Saturday we met to knock down a wall between two rooms in a house we were altering to use for classrooms and to sand the floor with one of those circular sand machines that drags you around the room as you fight to control it. I arrived with my toolbox, feeling in no mood for the work before me and feeling I did not have the necessary skills for the job (sound familiar?).  I said as much to one of the parents. Setting down his toolbox, he paused, looked at me, and said, “Just begin. You will soon get into the work.”  He was older, so I took his advice. He was right.  We broke the wall down and even repaired and sanded the floors for refinishing.  Our work still stands, and I occasionally return to that place to feel again a sense of gratitude for the rightness of his remark about the simple (but often overlooked) difficulty of  “just begin.” I had three lessons that day: take advice, just begin, and trust I am skilled. Might you adopt those lessons for yourself?

Like many of you, probably far from home, I often look to nature (as I did today) to divine some order for and give some sense to my own life (advice from nature, as it were).  On the way to the mountains very near where I grew up in Southern California, the road rises up Mill Creek Canyon with the first hydroelectric plant in America in the foothills. In the dry season the rabbit trails are easy to see along the flanks of those hills.  A simple rabbit, I imagine now, must once have set out across an unknown field with just a faint sense of direction, eventually making a route that became his routine and the sign of his skill that I saw that summer. Today I saw the sense of those rabbits in my life (and now for yours).

So it may be with each of us at the beginnings of our term.  Our setting out is in a general direction with vague goals [the word for long term] and objectives [the word for short term] that may with skill and grit become a well-known path to places well known. With our schedules almost set, our comings and goings start to form a pattern, and this pattern gives the reassurance that routines can give.  This we recognize. Less familiar is this: once the unknown becomes more known, a version of a familiar path, we must then take moments to lift our eyes from our feet and look up and around, over and beyond the mere task of merely finding our way, guarding our footing, and wondering where we are going.  We must take time to look out or overhead, look up from our book or paper or problem set to send our minds and imaginations wandering in ways our feet never could.  Views out the windows in our classrooms, the sight of day and nighttime skies, and even attention to the stories of others can be the foothills of beginnings, too.

Hello on this almost summer night under an almost full moon.  Some Notes and News.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT
TD Dean’s Office Closed Monday, September 7 for Labor Day

Ordinarily, TD Dean’s Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30 AM to 5 PM. To see me, stop by the office or make an appointment in advance: 203-432-0754.   I do not ordinarily make appointments over email.

Alarms on entryway doors will be activated on Monday.  That means when an entryway door is propped open for a while, an alarm will go off until the door is shut.  The alarms were deactivated during moving-in days.

TD Quiet Hours: 11 PM to 8 AM, Sunday – Thursday nights; 1 PM to 8 AM, Friday and Saturday nights.

TD Resident Tutors:
The TD Math and Science Tutor is Mehmet Z. Baykara.  Mehmet was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey and came to Yale in Fall 2006 to start his Ph.D. studies in Engineering & Applied Science. Prior to that, he completed his undergraduate education at Bogazici University in Istanbul in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.  At Yale he is working with Professor Udo Schwarz in the general field of “nanomechanics”. In his spare time, he enjoys watching and looking at and listening to “weird” art in all forms, (re-)reading Iain Banks novels. He is looking forward to meeting TDers and helping with all math and science related problems.  His hours and the hours of all math and science tutors, and their science specialties: www.yale.edu/mstutor

The TD Writing Tutor is Diane Charney, who has been the TD writing tutor for many years.  She also teaches in the French department, has extensive experience with students in DS, and is the TD Mellon Fellow responsible for the Mellon Senior Forums (for you seniors).  Her hours and the hours of all writing tutors are at www.yale.edu/writing . She can also be emailed to arrange a time to meet if it appears at the web site that she is booked.

ACADEMICS

Classes do meet on Monday, September 7.

Course Schedule Deadlines:
Class of 2013: Monday, September 14, 5 PM?Classes of 2011 and 2012: Tuesday, September 15, 5 PM?Class of 2010: Wednesday, September 16, 5 PM??A late schedule incurs a fine of $50
A late schedule cannot elect any courses CR/D/Fail

Fine for a clerical error on your schedule: $50
A schedule with 3 or 3.5 course credits and 6 course credits or more needs my permission before the schedule is handed in.

Class meeting times may not overlap by more than 15 minutes once a week 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 or a professional school that is not listed in the Blue Book 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 a syllabus attached by the deadline for your course schedule.  [Note: SOM courses cannot be added to your schedule through OCS; they must be written by hand in the “include” section on your schedule.  The form (above) for those courses must be handed in to my office in the first week of shopping period, well before the deadline for your course schedule.  SOM course enrollments are determined well before the course deadlines for undergraduates.]

Deadline to apply for a Fall-Term Leave of Absence: Friday, September 11.  See me if you are thinking about this.
On-line Course Selection:  www.yale.edu/sis. I remind you that (1) the program does not check for conflicts in class meeting times (that is the student’s responsibility) and that (2) once you print your final schedule, you cannot reenter the program to make changes and print a different final schedule.  Including or removing a course (after meeting with your adviser, for instance) can be written on the printed final schedule itself (in the Include and Remove Sections), and each change must be initialed by your adviser or me before the deadline for handing in your schedule.??Changes in Classes and their Meeting Times and Places: Courses changes and 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 as needed.

List of QR and Science courses without prerequisite: http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/sqr/qr/courses.html

Health Professions Open Hours (15-minute appointments) the week: http://www.yale.edu/career/students/gradprof/
Tuesday, 9/8, 1:30-3:30 PM; Wednesday, 9/9, 9:30-11:30 AM & 2:30-4:00 PM; Friday, 9/11, 1:30-3:00 PM

Freshmen
Distributional Requirements for the freshman year: Enrollment in one course credit in two of the three skills (FL, WR, QR).
Foreign Language Placement:  If you wish to change the level of the language course  in which you were placed by placement or other examination, you must speak with the teacher of your current placement and to the director of language instruction in the appropriate department.
Stars Program Information Session, Thursday, September 3rd, 5:00 p.m., Room 104, SSS.  The Science, Technology, and Research Scholars Program, (STARS), identifies and supports students from groups that are underrepresented in scientific and technological disciplines and students who come from disadvantaged circumstances, in any of Yale’s natural sciences and engineering majors. A centerpiece of the program is its focus on establishing a community of undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs and faculty.  We believe that the earlier students enter into a cooperative community of scholars, the more successful your science and/or pre-medical career will be at Yale.  Additionally, the program provides study groups/help sessions, research opportunities and strong mentoring relationships.   STARS will identify and support students in their first two years, which is a critical transitional time in their undergraduate education.  The selection of program participants is highly competitive and restricted to the freshman class.

Application Deadline
Friday, September 11th, 4:30pm
Yale College Dean’s Office, SSS 20
Submit to Reception Desk, Attn: STARS Program
Applications are available at http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/academics/special/stars/application.html. For questions, please contact Kenneth Nelson at Kenneth.nelson@yale.edu .

Sophomores
Sophomore web site: www.yale.edu/sophomore
Remember to hand in the form to select a sophomore year adviser if you have not done so.  I cannot approve your schedule until you hand in the form, due no later than the day your schedule is due.  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 for the sophomore year: By the completion of the forth term, enrollment in once course credit in each area (HU, Sc, So) and one course credit in each skill (FL, WR, QR).

Juniors
The foreign language requirement must be completed by the end of the junior year (sixth term of enrollment) in order to be promoted to senior standing (a seventh term of enrollment).

Distributional Requirement for the Junior Year:  In addition to the foreign language requirement, two course credits must be completed for a grade in each of the other two distributional groups, WR and QR.  Courses completed for CR cannot be counted for distributional requirements for the junior year or for the degree.  For a course with two distributional designations, only one or the other designation can be counted toward the distributional requirements; in other words, no double dipping.

Seniors
Distributional requirements for the degree:  In addition to the foreign language requirement, successful completion of two course credits for grade in all distributional areas and skills: WR, QR, Hu, So, and Sc.  Courses completed for CR cannot be counted for distributional requirements for the degree.  For a course with two distributional designations, only one or the other designation can be counted toward the distributional requirements; in other words, no double dipping.

STUDY ABROAD
www.yale.edu/yalecollege/international
Peer Advising Program at the Center of International Experience (CIE). The goal of this initiative is to help connect students with peers in their residential college who have already participated in one or more of these activities.  The complete list of peer advisers is at http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/international/planning/index.html .
The TD peer adviser is Kristin Heintz, Kristin.Heintz@yale.edu . The peer advisers are ready to talk to you and to share their experiences abroad.

CAREER SERVICES
www.yale.edu/career
Especially for a TDer new to UCS, TD has been assigned a UCS counselor to help any TDer find out how and what resources UCS has to help them. She is Deanna Goddard, and you may email her at Deanna.goddard@yale.edu .

Yale Career Fair
Friday, 9/11 ?11:00 AM – 3:00 PM ?Lanman Center, Payne Whitney Gymnasium ?UCS presents The 10th Annual Yale Career Fair to meet representatives from many top firms and to find out about various internship and full time opportunities. All students welcome. Dress: Business Casual
NOTES
Classes have started.  We are in shopping period, trying to settle what we can settle.  What we cannot settle can be unnerving in its uncertainly and ambiguity.  In the end, though, we will hand in the course schedules, we will program our phones and our obligations, and we will fix our routines – to try to settle. Our habits will take shape and take on the repetition of calendars and deadlines.
As we look at our list of courses and the chronology of our syllabi, we must try also to see and to be the experience of our education, of our learning together, and of our living together.  It will rain and it will snow, and that boat will shelter us in the TD dining hall, in Commons, and even in some eatery in town.  We are at Yale now to shape the sort of community we want to live in and learn in.  We shape that community by what we say and do and by what we choose not to say and not to do.  Our common ground reminds us that we are people first, and fortunately we live in a place that cares about people as well as courses to be taught and deadlines to be met.??I see the nearly full moon tonight, bright in the clear sky.  I look up to see it, as you  may look up from your work  — out the window or at a friend, a poster, or photo at your desk.  We look up or out, I think, so that we may be away for a moment, a moment’s passage beyond our worries and concerns.   We may look up and away so that we may then better return to and accept that felt sense of ourselves as people with all the doubts (and re-doubts) that are a part of each of us (alas, but true).   We know, or should accept, that we are not perfect (alas, but true).  Few will admit it, but each feels like an imperfect being, falling short of expectations somehow, reluctant to admit and especially to show weakness or shortcomings.  Imperfect as each of us is, under the moon we live together as people who are the best we can be (most of the time) and who do the best we can (most of the time).  Even in the face of our doubts, each of us works to rise to meet our hopes and possibilities as we accept our doubts and fears.  That is what is called courage.  That is the courage, the heart, of the TD Lion.
Best wishes as you finish selecting classes and as you explore and discover the hopeful habits of living and learning together on our common ground.

Hello on this first Sunday of our fall term.  Some Notes and News.
ACADEMICS
TD Dean’s Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30 AM to 5 PM (including Labor Day) To see me, stop by to see Trish or make an appointment in advance: 203-432-0754.

Registration Meetings

Tuesday, September 1
TD Dining Hall
Failure to attend incurs a fine of $50

Sophomores: 2:15 PM
Juniors: 3:00 PM
Seniors: 3:45 PM

Course Schedule Deadlines:

Class of 2013: Monday, September 14, 5 PM

Classes of 2011 and 2012: Tuesday, September 15, 5 PM

Class of 2010: Wednesday, September 16, 5 PM

A late schedule incurs a fine of $50
A late schedule cannot 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 a syllabus attached by the deadline for your course schedule.  [Note: SOM courses cannot be added to your schedule through OCS; they must be written by hand in the “include” section on your schedule.  The form (above) for those courses must be handed in to my office in the first week of shopping period, well before the deadline for your course schedule.]

Deadline to apply for a Fall-Term Leave of Absence: Friday, September 11.
On-line Course Selection:  www.yale.edu/sis

1. Use the worksheet capabilities to search courses to shop during shopping period.

2. After you have settled on the courses you will take, print your final schedule.

3. Take the final schedule to your adviser for the signature.   Sign the schedule. 4. Hand in your signed schedule to the TD dean’s office by the deadline for your class (see deadlines above and in the Blue Book)

Let me alert you that (1) the program does not check for conflicts in class meeting times (that is the students responsibility) and that (2) once you print your final schedule, you cannot reenter the program to make changes and print a different final schedule.  Including or removing a course will have to be written on the printed final schedule itself (in the Include and Remove Sections), and each change must be initialed by your adviser or me before the deadline for handing in your schedule.

Changes in Classes and their Meeting Times and Places: Courses changes and 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 as needed.

Premedical Program Curricular Meetings?Wednesday & Thursday, 9/2 & 3–3:30-4:45 PM UCS, Room 369
The meetings can help with the selection of premedical courses and a plan to complete them, depending upon when you wish to matriculate in medical school. Please note that these meetings do not substitute for meetings with your faculty adviser, who must sign your schedule. There will be ample time for questions.

Health Professions Open Hours (15-minute appointments) the week of August 31st: Monday, 8/31, 1:30-3:30 PM; Tuesday, 9/1, 9:30-11:30 AM; Wednesday, 9/2, 9:30-11:30 AM & 1:30-3:00 PM; Thursday, 9/3, 9:30-11:30 AM & 1:30-3:00 PM
QR SC website – courses that do not need prerequisites.
Residential College Seminars
The deadline for applying to College Seminars is  ** Monday, August 31 at 6 A.M.
Course listings and application information at http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/academics/special/seminars/courses.html for seminar

Undergraduate Art Counseling
Tuesday, September 1.
10:00-2:00, School of Art, Green Hall, 1156 Chapel Street
All other students should attend if they have questions regarding art courses, or art counseling in general. Art majors must register during these times. Undergraduate faculty representing various areas of undergrad art will be there to answer questions.

Sophomores
Remember to hand in the form to select a sophomore year adviser if you have not done so.  I cannot approve your schedule until you hand in the form, due no later than the day your schedule is due.  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.

Sophomore web site; www.yale.edu/sophomore.  Included at the site is a list of seminars for sophomores and a lsit of departmental information meetings, which is updated during the term.

Sophomores are invited to attend the academic fair on Tuesday,  September 1, 2-4 PM.  Almost all departments participate in this fair, held in LC and WLH.  It is a good occasion to ask about majors, including their prerequisites and requirements.

Juniors
The foreign language requirement must be completed by the end of your junior year (sixth term of enrollment) in order to be promoted to senior standing (a seventh term of enrollment).

Seniors
Distributional requirements for the degree:  Successful completion of two course credits each in WR, QR, Hu, So, and Sc and satisfaction of the Foreign Language Requirement.

NOTES

How beautiful our college was today in the late summer light and green grass.  And I heard the happy and late sounds of our community filling up with the people who make it so.
As I have written before, I am thinking about our new academic year and our new beginning.  For the class of 2013, who bring new energy and talents into our TD family. The beginning is indeed new, touched by “the first time.”  For the rest of us, although Yale is not new in that freshman “first time” way, maybe we can borrow “fresh” from them and make “re-freshed.”  Each of us is, after all, not the same as we were last year.  We are here anew, and what we see here can be new, too, because we are.

One summer I hiked in western Maine in the same area for the third time.  I returned mainly to revisit two streams and Cranberry Pond — places I loved from before.  I wanted to “be” there again.  In ways that still puzzle me, each seemed new though actually unchanged.  I surmise, as Thoreau did after reflecting on the novelty of a familiar November sunset, that it was me: I had changed.  I wonder if we might permit ourselves to see Yale in a new way as we face a familiar beginning as observers who have changed since the last time.  Thoreau may also remind our Class of 2012: You are not the same as you were last year.  Seeing Yale through high school eyes, for instance, may miss it (just as you may impose on Yale a frame that includes the security of the familiar), but you also have changed since last year and over the summer.

As each freshman’s  ”being here” helps all of us see Yale afresh, each also invites all of us to acknowledge our changes, too.  And the Class of 2013 reminds us of our reasons for coming to Yale — to learn from books, studios, and labs; from teachers and from each other; from what we do and from trying something new; from our successes and, yes, from the times we fall short.  Also, freshmen remind us that we invent and reinvent the sort of residential community we want — a community we make and remake every day by what we say and do, and by what we do not say and do not do. We may be away from home, but we know it’s the people who will make our residential college a home of our own.   It takes all of us and more to dance with our differences on our common ground and to make a home of where we find ourselves, to have that sense of belonging that is so important to each of us.   We have done it before and done it well.  We will do it again, and I am excited to be part of our living and learning together.  See you around the courtyard.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT

TD Mellon Senior Forum:  Next meeting is Tuesday, December 9.  Please let Diane Charney or Alex Weinstein know if you can present at this next meeting.

ACADEMICS

Deadline: December 5 is the last day to withdraw from a fall-term course. The form is available in your dean’s office.

Deadline:  December 12 is the deadline for all course assignments, including term papers. This deadline can be extended only by a Temporary Incomplete authorized by your residential college dean.  See YCPS 52-53 on the Temporary Incomplete.

English 395b Meeting Time Change: There is a last minute change in an English seminar ENGL 395b The Bible as Literature, taught by Prof. Leslie Brisman, will be held on MW 2.30-3.45. The class will split up into two groups on Wednesday and meet at 2.30-3.45 or 4.00-5.15. The information in the blue book is incorrect.  Questions to the English Department Registrar, Ruban Roman: 432-2224.

TUTORING

TD Resident Writing Tutor: The TD Writing Tutor is Diane Charney.  Her office is in the basement of TD, room 006, and her email address is diane.charney@yale.edu.  She has regular hours, which are posted at www.yale.edu/bass/tutoring/residential.html . A Yale College student may seek the help and advice of any tutor in any residential college.

Writing Partners at the Writing Center: Writing Partners are Yale College or graduate school students selected for both their writing skills and their ability to talk about writing. Writing partners do not read papers before the appointment, so they will often focus on the beginning of your text or other short sections that you know need help. Still, since many writing problems show up in the first two pages of a paper, this kind of tutoring can be very effective.

Drop-in tutoring with writing partners:  Sunday through Thursday: 3-5pm and 7-9pm; Friday: 3-5pm . Further information at www.yale.edu/writing

TD Resident Math and Science Tutor:  The TD math and science tutor is Peter Adshead.  His office is also in room B006 in TD, his email address is peter.adshead@yale.edu, and his schedule is available at www.yale.edu/mstutor.  For your information, a Yale College student may seek the help and advice of any math and science tutor in any residential college, andthese tutors have specialties that are noted at the web site.

Tutoring in Foreign Languages:  The process for asking for a foreign language tutor is described at  www.cls.yale.edu/tutoring .  A tutor is available to anyone enrolled in a foreign language (regardless of the grade in that course).

Drop in foreign language practice is available in the Bass Learning Center on the lower level of the Bass Library:

French, Tuesdays, 7 – 9 PM

Chinese, Wednesdays, 7 – 9 PM

Spanish, Thursdays, 7 – 9 PM

Science and QR Tutoring Program:  This tutoring program makes it possible to receive tutoring in QR and Science courses.  The form to request such tutoring is available in your TD dean’s office.

Course-Based Peer Tutoring.  For some courses the instructor has arranged peer tutoring by students who completed the course well, and it is announced by the instructor when such course-based tutoring is available.

Tutoring  offered by Academic Departments.  Some departments provide tutoring for students taking courses in their department.  Ask your teacher or the Director of Undergraduate Studies of the department.

SUMMER

President’s Public Service Fellowship information meeting is December 2, 6 PM, WLH 208.  The Public Service Fellowship provides Yale students with the opportunity to work in focused, full-time summer internships with our New Haven neighbors.  Fellowship awards range from $3,600 to $6,000 and placements are from 8 to 11 weeks from June 1 through August 14 in addition to a one week interactive New Haven orientation. More information about the Fellowship, the placement sites, and application forms at  http://www.yale.edu/ppsf/  or fromreginald.solomon@yale.edu .  The application deadline is Monday, January 16, 2008.   
 

Summer Options for Freshmen Information Meeting:  Monday, December 1, 4-5 PMand repeated 7-8 PM , LC 102  Learn about summer internships and work and volunteer abroad opportunities. 

International Bulldogs Information Meeting: Wednesday, December 3, 5:30-6:30 PM, UCS 369.  This information session is a primer about the programs, open to currently enrolled Yale students who are not in their final year of study.

SOPHOMORES

Deadline to apply for Cognitive Science Major:  Monday, December 8 (not December 10 as published in the Blue Book) Additional Information: http://www.yale.edu/cogsci/info_undergrad.html .  Applications available at:
http://www.yale.edu/perception/cogsci/#HowApply

Deadline to apply for the EP&E Major: Monday, December 8:  www.yale.edu/epe/apply .

Mellon and Bouchet Undergraduate Fellowships Information Meeting: Wednesday, December 3, 6 – 7:30 PM,  Asian American Cultural Center, 295 Crown St.  Dinner will be served.  The Mellon Mays and Bouchet Undergraduate Research Fellowships are designed to increase the number of minority students and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities, who will purse PhDs and subsequent careers in academia. The Fellowships are open to sophomores.  More information: http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/academics/fellowships/competitions/list/mays/index.html or http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/academics/fellowships/competitions/list/bouchet/index.html  Questions to Dean Saveena Dhall, saveena.dhall@yale.edu or Richard Sosa, richard.sosa@yale.edu .

JUNIORS

Beinecke Scholarships support senior year and two subsequent years of graduate school in the US or abroad to juniors who plan to attend graduate school in the arts, humanities, andsocial sciences.  US citizenship is required.  Applicants must also demonstrate financial need by submitting a documented history of receiving need-based financial aid in college.  Yale is invited to nominate one candidate to a national competition.  Information athttp://studentgrants.yale.edu/grant_detail.asp?gid=59 .  Campus deadline: January 28, 2009, Yale Office of Fellowship Programs, 55 Whitney Avenue.

SENIORS

TD Àshe Fellowship (Mentoring) Program matches each TD Senior with a TD Alumni.  The idea is for each mentoring pair to communicate via Facebook and or email.  The idea is for each mentoring pair to communicate and mentor each other via Facebook (www.facebook.com )and/or by email. Unlike the Yale Career Network, or other professional mentoring programs, this program does not match participants by career interest but instead matches participants based on their connection to Yale and their affiliation with TD.  While Alumni are encouraged to provide career advice, the vision is for a senior to connect with a mentoring partner on a broader basis.  If you are interested, email diana.georgelos@gmail.com , join facebook.com if you have not already, and join The TD Àshe Fellowship Program Group on facebook.com. 

December 5 (Noon): Henry Fellowship supports one year of study in any discipline at Oxford or Cambridge: http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/academics/fellowships/competitions/list/henry/index.html

OTHER

Financial Aid:  From the University Director of Student Financial Services:  “I am writing this note to assure all of you of our continued commitment to meeting the full demonstrated need of all students in Yale College. If there have been significant changes in your family’s assets or if there has been a change in employment status for a family member, you should contact the Student Financial Services office at 246 Church Street, first floor. Feel free to visit us in person (Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30), by telephone (203) 432-2700, or by emailsfs@yale.edu.

We will discuss your situation with you to determine whether an increase in your financial aid for the spring term might be appropriate given the changes in your family’s finances. For those students and parents who have not previously applied for financial aid, and who believe that they might now be eligible for support, you should refer to our application instructions (see the application instructions for 2008—2009). We will accept new spring term 2009 applications until March 15, 2009. You may also use our financial aid calculator to determine if you might be eligible for need-based financial aid given your changed circumstances.

We all understand that the economic changes of the past few months are causing much worryand anxiety. Yale stands ready to assist students and families with their financial concerns so that the academic year can be completed without interruption.”

Caesar Storlazzi, University Director of Student Financial Services

NOTES

As I hope you did as well, I got away from campus over break.  I went to stay for two days with my Yale College roommate, Jim, and his wife at their house in Providence (life-long friends are made in college).  Jim has been a used book dealer for many years, starting with a bookstoreand then moving the best of the collection to his basement in Providence, and then traveling around the country since then, searching for rare and unusual books. I was looking forward to spending some time with him and some time with his books.  On Friday afternoon he retired upstairs for nap and I retired downstairs for a browse of his books.  The several hours passed quickly as I started at one end and proceeded, book by book to the other.  I was looking for something for my son and for a few friends who had book interests I know: naval history, off-beat poetry, Hiroshima, and Victorian England.  I found a book for my son with Jim’s help.

So I browsed.  And I hope you did, too, even if only metaphorically along book shelves. Perhaps you did so along the shops at home or in place new to you, or along the faces of familyand friends or, again, along those new to you.  Perhaps you were also searching for something in particular as you were as much just as eager to be surprised by something unexpected. Jim’s collection was full of surprises, and I admit it was a real and palpable satisfaction to be with the real and palpable books – sometimes dusty, sometimes fragile, sometimes well read (if a torn dust jacket is any sign).  I was alone but I felt in the company of many.  I envied Jim andhis job because I know he reads and skims many of the books that pass through his hands. What a wonder it must be to simply come across what one comes across and in such an intimate form as a book –held, held again, felt.

And we walked about his neighborhood and talked, along the housed streets and at the boathouse at the river.  We talked freely about our former days together (which included other boat houses), as one would expect, about our future plans (also expected), and about a life worth leading (even as we have already led most of it).  Thoughts of what one might do, how one might find value and meaning, what one finds satisfying and happy – these and other thoughts of living do not reach a conclusion.  Life is, as another friend said, a work in progress. I am sure that remark resonates with you.

And I know two works in progress for sure: keeping old friends and making new ones.  As another friend told his students, before us is always the opportunity to make new friends.  You already know this from your arriving in New Haven to begin your freshman year.  What you may not know is that new friends await you, even here, even as you think you have made friends already, as a kind of conclusion.  It is not unusual in my experience that seniors make new Yale friends in their senior year, even in the spring of their senior year. I think we need only look up from what we are used to, from our plates at dinner, and from our place in that seminar to see the opportunity to get to know and get to like (and even need) someone we have not yet gotten to know.

And so I, coming from a visit from an old friend, find myself reminding you (and me) that there are many friends yet to find.  As I browsed those shelves in Jim’s basement, I came across a few authors and titles I knew (old friends) and many that were new to me (used as they were). What I did not know sparked my curiosity – sometimes with satisfaction and sometimes, of course, not.  No matter.  I opened the cover of new (strange) titles and spent some time with them. Some I wanted to have as my own.  We are all used books, in a manner of speaking, andwe are new books for others and others for us. After my hours in the basement, one used book I brought home, and that one I will give away.  That sounds like the practice of affection (friendship) to me.  And to Jim and Jean I say thanks for our familiar practicing of the used andthe practice of the opportunity of finding the unfamiliarly new. And thanks, Jim, for the used volumes of Thoreau’s complete journals, well thumbed by you as you compiled your own book on free thinkers.  Those used books from you mean a lot to me.

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TIMOTHY DWIGHT

Deadline: November 30 is the last day to relinquish spring-term housing without charge.  See me if you are planning to relinquish TD on-campus housing for next term.  TDers approved for a term abroad have already met this deadline and need do no more.

ACADEMICS

Deadline: December 5 is the last day to withdraw from a fall-term course.  The form is in your TD dean’s office.

Spring-term English Introductory Courses Pre-Registration:  Online pre-registration for spring semester introductory courses will be available beginning at 9 a.m. on December 1 andwill remain open through Friday January 09, 2009.  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 andfollowing the pre-registration link posted there. Once they’ve made their selection, they will receive an email confirmation. 

Please note that to secure their place in the section for which they 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 informing the instructor beforehand, their place will be filled by any students waiting to be admitted to the section.  

The number of courses and sections available should be more than ample to accommodate all student demand, and we anticipate that our offerings are ample enough to meet student demand. 

SUMMER

juniors

JE Traveling Fellowships:

Monday, November 17, 7-8 PM            

Common Room of J.E. College

Information Session with Richard Lalli and Kyle Farley

 HARD COPIES OF THE APPLICATION WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THIS MEETING,AND ALSO IN THE J.E. MASTER’S OFFICE.

 Friday, December 5, 5:00 PM               

Applications due in J.E. Master’s Office

(FOR THOSE NOT ON CAMPUS DURING THE SPRING SEMESTER)

 Thursday, December 11, 10 AM-1 PM  

Interviews (FOR THOSE NOT ON CAMPUS DURING THE SPRING SEMESTER)

Information Meeting: Summer Options for Juniors and Seniors
Wednesday, 11/19, 4-5 PM, Career Services, 55 Whitney, room 305.

Yale Summer Session Study Abroad General Information Session

Monday November 17, 4:00-5:00pm, 55 Whitney Ave, Room 305

http://www.yale.edu/summer/abroad/index.html for more information about Yale Summer Session Study Abroad

freshmen and sophomores

Fellowship Information Sessions for Freshmen and Sophomores Wednesday, November 19 at 2:00 PM at 55 Whitney Avenue, Room 305 Wednesday, December 3 at 4:00 PM at 55 Whitney Avenue, Room 305 Monday, December 8 at 1:00 PM at 55 Whitney Avenue, Room 305. Learn about the fellowship application and selection process and how to start preparing now to receive funding for next summer. There will be plenty of time for questions.  The sessions will be led by Tim Stumph, Fellowship Adviser for Freshmen and Sophomores.  All sessions will be identical in content, so students only need to attend one.  Sponsored by the Yale Office of Fellowship Programs. More information can be found at http://www.yale.edu/ofp .

sophomores and juniors

Global Health Research Workshop: This workshop, led by Prof. Kaveh Khoshnood from the School of Public Health, is intended to enhance the academic experience of Yale College sophomores and juniors (and students currently enrolled in the 5 year BA-BS / MPH Program) who plan to conduct an internationally based health-related research project during a summer or semester abroad. The focus is on health research projects in resource-limited countries. Students who propose service learning internships or volunteer work are not eligible.  More information and application information can be found at http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/international/advising/type/research/global_health.html.  Deadline for receipt of materials is November 21. Question to Tim Stumph, Yale Office of Fellowship Programs. 203-432-8685

YALE FELLOWSHIP FOR SOPHOMORES

The Mellon Mays and Bouchet Undergraduate Research Fellowships are designed to increase the number of minority students and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities, who will purse PhDs and subsequent careers in academia.

The Fellowships are open to sophomores interested in teaching and research at the college anduniversity level.  Those interested are encouraged to attend the December 3^rd Information Session: Wednesday, December 3, Asian American Cultural Center

295 Crown Street (between York and High), 6:00-7:30pm, Dinner will be served
For more information contact: Dean Saveena Dhall, Director of Mellon Mays and Bouchet Fellowships, saveena.dhall@yale.edu OR Richard Sosa, Coordinator of Mellon Mays andBouchet Fellowships, richard.sosa@yale.edu . Additional information and Application Forms can be found on line at http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/academics/fellowships/competitions/list/mays/index.html or http://www .yale.edu/yalecollege/academics/fellowships/competitions/list/bouchet/index.html

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK

Center for International Experience for a Reception Celebrating International Education Week: Tuesday, November 18, 7-9 pm, Sterling Lecture Hall. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

SENIORS: POSTGRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES

Yale-China Teaching Fellowship.  The deadline for applications to the Yale-China Teaching Fellowship is Friday, November 21, 2008 at noon.  The Fellowship supports a two-year experience in China, Further information at www.yalechina.org . Questions about the program to: Katie Molteni, Program Officer for Teaching Programs, Yale-China Association, 442 Temple Street. Tel: (203) 436-8362. Email: katie.molte ni@yale.edu .

NOTES

Our Ginkgo has shed its leaves, and I stand in wonder now at that circle of bright and yellow leaves that glisten under the cool rain and in the incandescent light of our nighttime courtyard.  I imagine the Gingko exhausted after a long season of growing and holding leaves, then greenand then changed.  At last he will rest as his leaves rest beneath him.  At Thanksgiving Break I especially think of seasons and their passing.

Fall term is a long term and exhausting term, and I know you have been working hard to finish work assigned in the past few weeks and including this week just before our break.  Your extra efforts at hard work before this Friday will let you fall into a vacation time to rest.  Please keep in mind as now look forward to raiding the frig late at night and pulling those different covers over you, that rarely do we catch up on work over Thanksgiving break as much as we imagine (hope) we will. I also know that with vacation near that many of you are already thinking of family and friends at home or other places you plan to go.  (By the way: If you are still on campus on Tuesday, November 25, please join me and members of your TD family at my Thanksgiving buffet, 6 – 8:30 PM, B-30 TD).

Whatever your plans and wherever you plan to go,  I think it is important to take some time away from campus so that your break is a real one.  As I have written before, a very valuable catching up over vacation needs your attention: a catching up with yourself. Take time to restand to look out a different window. Just take your time. Vacation is supposed to be the time to let the work go.  Try to put “vacate” back into “vacation.”  Try to resist the apprehension that can accompany the doing of nothing at all.  Just BE, for a change. Do you remember what Milne said about Winnie the Pooh?  “Pooh just is.” A desirable state, “just is.”

I hope you will take the time you need in the way you need in order to refresh who you ARE. WHO you are, after all, means the most to you and to others who know and love you — important to remember as you work hard, even with the mixed success we must accept andadjust to. That mix should be absent when you are present on your vacation. Vacation is the time for privacy in the bathroom, access without a card, and even more pointless conversation.  Have the most restful and self-indulgent vacation you can. And when your eyes grow heavy after Thanksgiving dinner, succumb.  I will.

See you around the courtyard.

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