Notes and News – Week of 8/29
ML’s Pieces
Dear Red Lions,
We begin our first issue of “Notes and News” with a very warm welcome to the new class of 2020! Friday’sFreshman Move In Day – just like in years past – was a great success because of the kindness and energy shown by the students and staff of TD. A special note of gratitude goes to the many sophomores, juniors, and seniors as well as the TD children who came out in full force to help in spite of the sweltering heat and humidity.
Speaking of the freshman, this week’s “photo of the week” is titled “New Meets Old TD,” and features the winningfreshmen Scavenger Hunt team wearing vintage IM t-shirts from years ago. Briggs Bulkeley TD ’19 was on hand to take this photo. Pictured in the back row are Vivek Katara, Daniella Cohen, Rachel Suss, Maryanne Cosgrove, Dale MacLean, and Hannah Steffke. In the front row are Karen Yao, Renee Hernandez Rodriguez, and Maria Campos Saadi. Congratulations, and wear those vintage Ts with pride!
For all of you new to TD and our weekly “Notes and News,” please note that we feature a special photo in each issue. So please consider sending in a picture to be the “photo of the week”. The photo should capture a day in the life of TDers – inside or outside of the college – accompanied by a title or caption and the names of the TDers pictured. Please email them to my email address (mary.lui@yale.edu) and I’ll select a photo from the entries for the upcoming week’s newsletter.
Looking ahead to this week, here are some important dates to note:
Monday 8/29 7-8pm Big Sibs/Little Sibs Ice Cream Sundae Social (TD Courtyard)
If you haven’t already found your sibs, here is a wonderful opportunity to meet up and enjoy some good ice cream!
Tuesday 8/30 Freshmen Reception (5:30pm) and Dinner (6:15pm)
Dress up and celebrate the start of your Yale career. We begin with a light reception in the Timothy Dwight College house and then make our way to our beautiful dining hall. All upperclassmen from all colleges will head to Old Campus for a cookout.
Creative and Performing Arts (CPA) Awards Deadline-Monday 9/5 4pm
These awards ranging from a few hundred to over a thousand dollars support student visual and performing arts related productions. The rapidly approaching fall deadline apply to projects for this semester and the beginning of the spring semester. Go to http://creativeandperformingarts.yale.edu/ for a more detailed description and a link to the application. Anyone interested in applying should also make sure to discuss your projects with the Head of the College before submitting the application. You can make an appointment by contacting my senior administrator, Karen McGovern, at karen.mcgovern@yale.edu.
Monday 9/5 Annual Labor Day New Haven Road Race
There are still a few spots left for anyone who wants to run the race with us next weekend. Please go to this New Haven Road Race registration link and enter the code TD5K for the 5K race and TDGAKF20K for the 20K/half marathon race for your free entry. Online registration closes at 12pm on Sunday 9/4.
Saturday 9/10 9am Llamaland !!!
Our decades old TD tradition to welcome our freshman! And, yes, there are llamas at Llamaland along with volleyball, football, nature walks, Egyptian art, and great food, music, and fun. The upperclassmen wish they can do it again, but this is for freshmen only! So don’t miss out!
Without further ado, here is a word from Dean Mahurin…
Áshe,
ML
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Welcome back, TD! As I did last year, I decided to open my first Dean’s Domain with the opening poem from Shel Silverstein’s collection Where the Sidewalk Ends.
Invitation
If you are a dreamer, come in
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer…
If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!
ACADEMICS – come in!
Don’t forget tomorrow’s mandatory registration meetings for upperclassmen in the dining hall.
Class of 2019 – 9:00 a.m.
Class of 2018 – 9:45 a.m.
Class of 2017 – 10:30 a.m.
If you miss this meeting, the registrar’s office will charge you fifty bucks, and you’ll need to petition Dean Eileen Queen in Academic Affairs to register late. Additionally, after a certain point, lateness is equivalent to absence, and you’ll also be charged fifty bucks. None of these fees line my or ML’s or TD’s pockets, and we don’t enjoy having them imposed on you.
UPCOMING DATES AND DEADLINES
August 31 Classes begin
September 2 Friday classes do not meet; Monday classes meet instead
September 5 Labor Day; classes do not meet
September 14 Deadline to apply for a fall term Leave of Absence. See me if you are thinking about requesting a leave of absence for this fall term.
All students planning to complete degree requirements at the end of the fall term must file a petition by this date.
Preliminary Online Course Schedules
In both fall and spring terms, students in all classes must create a preliminary course schedule in Online Course Selection (OCS) by 11:59 p.m. on the day before classes begin – that’s Tuesday night! Students who fail to submit a preliminary schedule by the deadline will be charged a fine of fifty dollars by the registrar (this is their magic number). The preliminary course schedule must contain at least three course credits. You’re expected to edit their online course schedules regularly during the course selection period, retaining courses they are actively considering and removing courses in which they do not plan to enroll.
Course Schedule Deadlines (all at 5:00 p.m.):
Classes of 2020 – Monday, September 12
Classes of 2019 and 2018 – Tuesday, September 13
Class of 2017 – Wednesday, September 14
Schedules are handed in to Trish Cawley in the TD Dean’s Office. The 5:00 p.m. deadline is strictly enforced. A late schedule incurs a fine of fifty dollars (there it is again!) and a late schedule may not elect any courses CR/D/Fail.
A schedule of 3.0 or 3.5 course credits OR a schedule of 6.0 or 6.5 course credits needs my permission before the schedule is handed in. Email Trish at patricia.cawley@yale.edu to schedule an appointment to see me.
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.
I’ll remind you that (1) the program does not check for conflicts in class meeting times (that is every 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) must be hand 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 the hard copy.
Independent Studies (Directed Reading, Directed Research, etc. as listed by most departments). There are limits on the number that a student can enroll in during a given year and over four years. Enrolling in an independent study requires the additional permission of a Director of Undergraduate Studies.
A list of Sc courses without prerequisites may be found at http://science.yalecollege.yale.edu/academics/faculty-resources/science-courses-without-prerequisite.
A list of QR courses without prerequisites may be found at http://science.yalecollege.yale.edu/academics/courses/qr-courses/qr-courses-without-prerequisite.
TUTORING
Writing Tutors: http://www.yale.edu/bass
Writing Partners: www.yale.edu/writing
Sc/QR Tutoring: http://www.yale.edu/mstutor
Language Tutoring: http://cls.yale.edu/foreign-language-tutoring
Yale College Tutoring Program: This tutoring program makes it possible to receive tutoring in other subjects, such as non-English languages, economics, and the sciences and mathematics. The form to request such tutoring, which is free, is available in the TD Dean’s Office.
SOPHOMORES!
You must 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. The form is available at the sophomore web site (www.yale.edu/yalecollege/sophomore) under the Advising tab.