TD Notes and News – Week of 12/5
Head of College’s Pieces
Dear Red Lions,
We had a wonderful public service week in the college with the Chubb fellowship lecture and dinner with Ambassador João Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations. It was wonderful to see students so engaged with the Ambassador’s comments on the future of the EU and global climate change. Then on Friday our TD New Haven Outreach Aides organized our first community service trip of the year to Sunrise Café in Wooster Square, operated by Liberty Community Services. Students helped with the food as well as performed for the café’s clientele. This “photo of the week” is titled “TDers at Sunrise ” shows many of our TD students and other student volunteers helping out with serving at the café.
This week we are speeding quickly to the end of the semester with Friday as our last day of classes for the fall semester. TD Dining Hall will begin to stay open 24 hours for studying starting on Sunday 12/11. This will also be the start of our SAC study breaks. Look for a full schedule of study breaks for the Reading Week to come out later this week. For the exam period starting on Friday 12/16, TD will provide 10pm pizza study breaks in the Thompson Room. We will be working to enforce quiet time for the reading and exam periods in order to make sure all TDers have ample time and space to study and do their best work.
But before you all disappear into papers and exams, please take time to check out the great events we have lined up this last week of classes!
Tuesday December 6 4:30pm Tea with Laura Chambers, Peace Corps Chief of Staff (TD House)
Laura Chambers has served as Chief of Staff of the Peace Corps since 2014. She previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 1984 to 1986 in Senegal, West Africa as a community development volunteer focused on women’s cooperative building. She has a long career in a range of non-profit organizations including the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), Global AIDS Alliance, and Civic Ventures. Ms. Chambers has kindly agreed to dine with TD students in the Thompson Room after the tea. If you’d like to attend, please register through this Google Form.
Thursday December 8 7:30pm TD Community Chamber Orchestra Performance (President’s Room, Schwarzman Center, 2nd floor)
Don’t miss this debut of the TD Community Chamber Orchestra! We will be performing a program of Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Borodin. Free and open to the general public so feel free to bring along friends and support your TD musicians!
December 9 TD Holiday Dinner (TD Dining Hall) & Holiday Sing-along (TD House)
Please come to the TD Dining Hall for this year’s festive Holiday Dinner. Family dinner protocols will be in effect. As soon as dinner is over, we’ll head back to the house and dust off the old caroling books and sing! Any pianists who would like to volunteer to accompany us will be greatly welcomed. Hot apple cider and cookies will be served!
December 10 Alvin Ailey (New York City Field Trip)
We are continuing the wonderful tradition of bringing TDers to experience the artistry of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theaters. This year we have 25 tickets for a 2pm Saturday matinee featuring three pieces: the classic Revelations, Ronald Brown’s Open Door, and Winter in Lisbon featuring the music of Dizzy Gillespie and choreography of Billy Wilson. The bus will depart at 10am from TD and leave NYC around 5pm. There will be room on the bus to take an additional 25 TD students who would be happy go to NYC for the day and not attend the concert. To enter the lottery please sign up here. We will announce the results on Wednesday morning.
December 11 3pm Sunday House Concert with Cellist Angus Fong TD ‘19
Come listen to and support TD sophomore Angus Fong as he performs classics from the cello repertoire: Brahms’s Cello Sonata No. 2, Schumann’s “Fantasiestücke”, and Piazolla’s “Le Grand Tango”.
December 11 7:30pm TD Class of ‘18 “TeaD”
Hey TD Class 2018 – kick off your reading break with tea and conversation with your lovely fellow juniors! Swing by the RH Common room this Sunday evening for tea, coffee, Koffee? snacks, and wonderful people. Join the fb event here.
Without further ado, here is a word from Dean Mahurin…
HoC Lui
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“A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.”
(Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire)
IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
***PLEASE NOTE BELOW: MANDATORY REGISTRATION DATES (JAN. 16 FOR CLASS OF 2020 AND JAN. 17 FOR EVERYONE ELSE)
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December 9, Friday |
Classes end, 5.30 p.m.; Reading Period begins |
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December 16, Friday |
Final examinations begin, 9 a.m. |
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December 21, Wednesday |
Examinations end, 5.30 p.m.; Winter recess begins |
Spring 2017
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January 11, Wednesday |
Undergraduate residences open |
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January 16, Monday |
2020 registration meeting, 9:00 p.m. |
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January 16, Monday |
Martin Luther King Jr. Day; classes do not meet. |
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January 17, Tuesday |
Mandatory upperclass registration– pick up materials from Trish during business hours. |
CALLING 2018 and FUTURE FROCOS!
The Freshman Counselor application is now available online. Remember, we’ll have an information session next Tuesday, the 13th, at 8:00 p.m. in the Selin Lounge.
MB&B Study Hall
MB&B would like to announce that we will hold an ”MB&B study hall” on Dec. 15 from 2 to 4 p.m. in Bass Library Room L01. MB&B professors of each of our fall courses, the MB&B DUS and Registrar, as well as undergraduate advisors will be present to answer all of your questions, whether they are review questions in preparation for final exams, help with term papers, or questions about next term’s curriculum! We welcome all students taking MB&B fall classes, students majoring in MB&B and/or students interested in the major. Cookies and milk will be served.
Life Worth Living (HUMS 411)
Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, Angela Gorrell, Drew Collins
This Spring 2017 class asks, “What is the good life?”
Course application required; enrollment limited to 60 students (four sections of 15). Preferred application deadline Dec. 23: https://goo.gl/forms/iKAJjmWu13ckmbdh1
Decisions will be emailed by Jan. 15.
What does it mean for a life to go well? What would it look like for a life to be lived well? In short, what shape would a life worth living take? We will explore these questions through comparative exploration of the shape of the life advocated by several of the world’s normative traditions, both religious and nonreligious. The class will examine concrete instantiations of these traditions through contemporary exemplars drawn from outside the professional religious or philosophical spheres. Readings will be drawn from the founding texts of Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, utilitarianism, and Nietzscheanism.
CIPE
YALE SUMMER SESSION
Yale Summer Session New Haven offers more than 200 courses in the humanities, social sciences, STEM and the arts for full Yale credit. Lighten your term time load by taking a summer course! Financial Assistance available.
(Your dean will be teaching a course on American Literary Regionalism in Summer Session B…)
STUDY ABROAD
Research Summer Study Abroad Options Over Winter Break
Your winter break can be a great time to research summer options and begin the application process. Don’t know where to start?
1. Read through Matching a Program to Your Interests to help you identify goals for your experience.
2. Research study abroad programs. Don’t forget to use the search options to narrow down the list of options.
3. Read through Yale student experiences on study abroad programs or reach out to a study abroad alum for advice.
4. Review the application process and make note of deadlines. Yale’s summer study abroad applications will open December 15, 2016.
5. Research funding options for study abroad.
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS
DID YOU KNOW?
· Yale Fellowships has gone automated! Schedule an appointment with an advisor online. (Though you must first attend an information session and gain a general overview before meeting with Fellowships staff one-on-one.)
· Yale Fellowships deadlines are typically at 1:00 PM on the due date.
· Many opportunities administered through CIPE offer a common application, through which you can apply for many opportunities at once. This is true of CIPE Summer Fellowships, CIPE Junior Research Fellowships, and CIPE Year-Long Fellowships.
DECEMBER INFORMATION SESSIONS – LAST CHANCES TO OBTAIN VALUABLE OVERVIEWS AND ACCESS TO STAFF BEFORE THE BREAK
With spring semester deadlines fast approaching, including CIPE summer and Year-Long Fellowships, Fellowships is pleased to offer two additional opportunities to receive an overview with the Fellowships Advisor for Yale College: Monday, December 12th at 11 and Wednesday, December 14th at 3.
December Information Sessions
M 12/5, 4 - 5 PM: International Summer Award (ISA) Information Session
T 12/6, 3 – 4 PM: Fellowships 101
W 12/7, 4 – 5 PM: Fellowships for Seniors and After Graduation
TH 12/8, 11 AM - 12 PM @ SSS 410: YCDO Science Fellowships Info Session
TH 12/8, 6 - 7 PM: Light Fellowship Information Session
M 12/12, 11 AM - 12 PM: Fellowships 101
T 12/13, 3 - 4 PM @ SSS 405: Alan S. Tetelman Fellowship for Study Abroad Information Session
W 12/14, 11 AM - 12 PM @ SSS 410: Science Fellowship Proposal Writing Workshop
W 12/14, 3 - 4 PM: Fellowships 101
OFFICE OF CAREER STRATEGY
Travel Reimbursement for Nonprofit and Government Interviews/Arts Auditions is available to all Seniors. Click here for instructions and to get up to $100 reimbursement.
REMINDER: Yale College Class Lists and Summer Employment Peer Lists:
As you think about your summer plans, don’t forget to connect with current students and recent alumni through the Class Lists and Summer Peer Lists to hear about their experiences. These lists include contact information for thousands of current Yale students and recent Yale alumni willing to help as you consider your summer options. These networking resources are available in the Document Library of the Yale Career Link (powered by Symplicity), and can be searched by Location, Employer, Yale Major, Class Year and more!
Office of Career Strategy Winter Break Hours
Please note walk-in hours for the fall semester will end on Friday, December 9. Individual appointments are available during winter break through the Yale Career Link (powered by Symplicity). The Office will be closed Friday, Dec. 23 - Monday, Jan. 2. Spring semester walk-in hours will begin on Tuesday, Jan. 17.
NOTE: The Office of Career Strategy will be closed all day Monday, December 12 for staff training.
Your Summer Internship Search–cosponsored with Yale College Council
Monday, December 5, 7:00pm-8:00pm, Bass Library room L06
Join us to discuss services, resources and summer programs available through the Office of Career Strategy. We’ll cover all your questions about planning your summer-How do I get started? What’s the timeline? RSVP
Networking, featuring The Purple Crayon Improv Group
Tuesday, December 6, 7:00pm-8:00pm, Office of Career Strategy
In this workshop, the Office of Career Strategy and The Purple Crayon improv group will show you: (1) why you should network, (2) what networking looks like, and (3) how you can get started. You’ll walk away from this workshop with an action plan to set your professional networking in motion. RSVP
STAY Alumni Tea–From Combat to Campus
Thursday, December 8, 5:00pm, Rose Alumni House
Space is limited. RSVP to stephen.blum@yale.edu. Join Navy veteran Ryan Pearson for tea/coffee/snacks sponsored by STAY (Students and Alumni of Yale). After high school, Ryan enlisted and served 12 years in the Navy – predominantly in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) – and deployed to the Middle East and Afghanistan with Navy SEAL and other special-force teams. In 2014, he left active duty and came to Yale for a liberal arts education. Ryan majors in Political Science, and studies strategic and theoretical frameworks as they apply to complex phenomena such war and political violence. Outside of the classroom, Ryan co-captains Yale’s competitive powerlifting team, serves in the Naval Reserves, and volunteers as an ambassador to Service 2 School.
Summer on the Cuyahoga Info Session
Tuesday, December 6, 6:00pm-7:00pm, Branford’s Trumbull Room. RSVP
Summer 2017 Yale-coordinated Internship Opportunities
Yale-coordinated Internship opportunities for summer 2017 are live in Yale Career Link, powered by Symplicity. Students must complete the “Yale-coordinated Internship Programs Policies and Registration” in the Document Library of Yale Career Link, powered by Symplicity.