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MASTER’S PIECES
Evening, friends and neighbors. I do not believe that I fully understood how desperately I needed some warmth and sunshine. I would be startled to find that I was the only one having this experience over the course of this past week. Have mercy. I hope you’ve taken the opportunity to do even a bit of basking in it. Good to feel those spring energies, too, as I know that all of us will need them. Here’s what’s happening soon:
Wednesday, April 9, 8:30 pm in the Thompson Room – Info Session on Medical School and Science PhD application preparation Applications to professional and graduate school programs have become increasingly competitive in recent years, incorporating a holistic approach beyond the GPA and standardized test scores. Join a conversation about how to strengthen your credentials to maximize your application for medical school and science graduate programs. Presenters include: David McCormick, Professor of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine; Lanch McCormick Executive Director of Unite For Sight, former senior advisor at Undergraduate Career Services; Kristin McJunkins, Director of Health Professions Advisory Program at Undergraduate Career Services; Michael Schwartz, Associate Dean for Curriculum and Admissions Committee Member at Yale University School of Medicine.
Saturday, April 12, the annual TD Crawfish Boil from 3:00 to 4:30 pm !! Yes, another Mott spectacular, with crawfish flown in fresh from New Orleans and picked clean right here in the TD courtyard, with all the fixings and to the accompaniment of Cajun music. The boil starts about mid-afternoon – a TD tradition that annually converts the doubtful and the disgusted into mudbug enthusiasts.
Sunday, April 13, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm: TD Celebration of Dean John Loge – Barbecue, Portrait Unveiling and Community Sing To celebrate Dean’s remarkable career and retirement in down-home style, we’re going big with a courtyard barbecue from 5-6:45, and then at 6:45 gathering in the DH for an official portrait unveiling (!) and a community music night in the dining hall afterward. Performers, start your engines and get your acts together. (If you want to perform and have not already emailed me, send me your name and what you want to do: song, poem, yodel, joke, etc. by this Tuesday afternoon.)
Stuff Coming a Bit Down the Road:
Tuesday, April 15, 4:30 pm in the Master’s House: Master’s Tea with the REAL Captain Phillips You’ve seen the movie. Meet Captain Richard Phillips and get his take on what really happened, and what’s happened in his life since Tom Hanks portrayed him in the film.
Thursday, April 17, TD Movie Night – “Lion King” at 10 pm in the Dining Hall SAC will unroll our huge new screen in the DH, serve up goodies and project one of the great feel-good classics of all time for the sheer shameless lionhood of it. Yes, you should come and sing the songs.
Sunday, April 20, 9 pm in the Dining Hall: “Harold” - A TD Original Opera Debut Ok, the short strokes here are that TD freshman Jordan Plotner has been writing (and filming for) a short, 20 minute opera in collaboration with several friends, being produced by Dara Eliacin and mounted in yes, that global launching pad, the TD Dining Hall, with a group of 16 fabulous singers. You must go, and to entice you, there’s a trailer! Go to http://vimeo.com/89843980. This is going to be very, very cool.
Tuesday, April 22, Master’s House at 8 pm, Chamber Music Live Our own Yael Ben Tov, Jonathan Adler and several friends will perform works by Scriabin, Brahms, Fauré and Ravel. Another TD cultural event to which you cannot buy tickets in any store. You only hear about it here, and all you have to do is walk across the courtyard to relish it.
Shout outs! To the Mott Woolley Council for planning and executing another great spring trip to NYC, where art was viewed, the Mets were cheered, and the theater world was engaged. And to the freaking fabulous TD class of ’17, who for the first time in ages placed in the top 3 for Freshman Olympics!! Many made it happen, but special thanks to Celine Tien and Spencer Rogers for organizing and logistics.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
Mental Health & Wellness Weekend | April 11-13
The inaugural Mental Health & Wellness Weekend is a full slate of events, workshops, and speakers designed to foster thoughtful conversation about mental health at Yale, build students’ skills for resilience, and promote a campus culture where students feel empowered to take care of ourselves and each other. This weekend is sponsored by the Coalition for Mental Health & Wellbeing at Yale, a collaborative effort of more than a dozen student groups working on mental health and wellness at Yale.
Check out our website for more details: mentalhealthweekend.yale.edu
UP-COMING TD ROOM DRAWS
Sophomore Quint Draw Applications due Cancelled: Quint taken in Junior Quint Draw
Sophomore Quint Draw Number and Room Pick
Sophomore Quad Draw Applications due Wednesday, April 9, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Quad Draw Number and Room Pick Wednesday, April 9, 5:00 pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Triple Applications due Tuesday, April 15, 4:00 pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Triple Draw Number Pick Tuesday, April 15, 8:00 pm, Dining Hall
Junior Applications due (Triples) Tuesday, April 15, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Draw Number Pick (Triples) Tuesday, April 15, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Room Pick (Triples) Tuesday, April 15, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Applications due (Doubles, Singles) Wednesday, April 16, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Draw Number Pick (Doubles and Singles) Wednesday, April 16, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Junior Draw Room Pick (Doubles, Singles) Thursday, April 17, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Junior Clean-up Draw Thursday, April 17, 9:00pm, Dining Hall
Sophomore Triple Draw Room Pick Thursday, April 17, 9:30pm, Dining Hall
Sophomore Clean-up Draw Thursday, April 17, 10:00pm, Dining Hall
Slide Draw (If any) Monday, April 21, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Applications and Information are available at http://timothydwight.yalecollege.yale.edu/deans-office/housing and also in hard copy on the bulletin board in Town Hall. Questions to Dean Loge and members of the TD Housing Committee:Cory.combs@yale.edu; Shelby.davis-cooper@yale.edu Alexandra.krause@yale.edu; Kelly.wu@yale.edu;Alexander.Petros@yale.edu; Adam.mahler@yale.edu; Blake.mueller@yale.edu;
CAREER SERVICES
Life After Yale: Apartment Hunting in NYC (Seniors)
Tuesday, April 1, 4:00-5:00pm, WLH Room 211
Visit the UCS Calendar of Events for a full list of upcoming events. Log in to Yale UCS Symplicity under Events/Employer Information Sessions to RSVP.
STUDY ABROAD
Tuesday, April 8, 8:00 pm, LC 104
Meet with a study abroad peer adviser and other returned students to learn about their experiences on field-based study abroad programs, such as the School for International Training and School for Field Studies. Note: The application deadline to receive Yale credit for summer, fall and full year study abroad programs in 2014 has passed; admitted applicants or students interested in study abroad in summer, spring or fall 2015 or full year 2015-16 should attend this session.
SUMMER
International Summer Award
http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/international/funding/isa/index.html
Deadline: May 1, 2014 Have you already applied for an ISA to support a designated non-Yale study abroad program? If so, please note that your ISA cannot be processed until you have uploaded your program acceptance letter to your Study Abroad program application. The deadline to do this is May 1, but the sooner you upload it the sooner you can receive your ISA funds! (Questions? Email MyCIPE@yale.edu.)
Yale Summer Session 2014 – New Haven
Take a course in New Haven this summer – view course listings and more information about the application process online!
Yale Summer Film Institute: Informational Meeting
Monday, April 7, 6:00 pm
Digital Media Center for the Arts, 149 York Street
See the attached flyer about the on-camera and independent film-making workshops being offered at Yale this summer.
Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship
Supports 8-week projects with local New Haven non-profit agencies.
http://dwighthall.org/blog/2014/03/04/apply-to-the-2014-dwight-hall-summer-fellowship-program/
Deadline: April 7, 2014
Sitka Fellows Program
A fully-funded, multi-disciplinary summer residency program in Alaska.
Eligible: applicants under 30 years of age in any field, discipline, or background, provided they are able to present a coherent scope of proposed work
Deadline: April 15, 2014
JUNIORS and SENIORS
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Scholarships
Are afforded to Latino students in the United States who have a history of performing public service-oriented activities in their communities and who demonstrate a desire to continue their civic engagement in the future. There is no GPA or academic major requirement. Students with excellent leadership potential are encouraged to apply for one-time scholarships of $2,500 for an undergraduate degree, or $5,000 for graduate study.
http://www.chci.org/scholarships/
Deadline: April 16, 2014
Study, research, or teaching abroad after graduation*—come hear about terrific opportunities beginning in 2015-16, with application deadlines beginning in August. *Attendance at an information session is required before a one-on-one meeting with an adviser, so don’t miss out! Note that there are only a few of these info sessions offered each spring, and that if you’re interested in UK fellowships, including the UK Fulbright, you must attend a UK info session.*
Postgraduate study in the UK & Ireland: Tuesday, April 8, at 4:00pm, CIPE room 305
Writing essays for national fellowships: Friday, April 11, at 2:00pm, CIPE room 305
Fellowships for after graduation: Tuesday, April 22, at 5:30pm, CIPE room 305
Fulbright: Tuesday, April 29, at 11:00am, CIPE room 305
More on calendar
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for Artists
Supports artists (specifically those working in a representational style in painting, sculpting, drawing, and printmaking) who are in the early stages of their careers to develop and refine their skills by awarding unrestricted grants of approximately $15,000.
Eligible: those aiming to make art a lifetime career
http://www.elizabethgreenshieldsfoundation.org/
Deadline: Rolling (applications accepted throughout the year)
NOTES
We seem to do a lot of waiting. We wait for the phone to ring, for that letter, for that reply to an email, for graded homework and tests, for news from some employer or school, for lunch in Commons at 12:30 when everyone else seems to eat lunch. We are waiting for spring really to arrive. We are waiting to see what the Room Draw delivers. Once a wait ends, another seems to take its place. There seems to be an awful lot of waiting, and for the most part, I guess, we do not like it much. “Hurry up” and worry come to mind.
At dinner last night we talked about waiting in line at the grocery store, where the lines move none too fast. One guest suggested some joy in waiting in line, a concept new to some. Turns out she takes the time to observe the others in line and even to talk to them. She sees it as a part of belonging to a neighborhood, a meeting place, a chance to see herself in the ways of others.
I now think of Derek Walcott who in his Nobel Laureate Lecture (mostly about the Antilles and writing poetry) says, “I should like to keep these simple joys inviolate, not because they are innocent, but because they are true.” He is referring to the joys of that day, but I got to thinking about the rest of us and about just any day. We think of simple joys as the province of children and thus, I imagine, of innocence. That their truth is what sets them apart from “complex joys” or “simple fears” is a new notion to me.
How does this relate to waiting? It might be this: Simple joys are about presence and waiting is about absence. I do not think waiting is about earning presence, I think it is about getting something over and done with and thus relegated as quickly as possible to the past. The simple joys of this coming-of-spring time of year – noticing the progress of the crocuses and the buds on the trees – might be sufficient if they were not so commonplace. What might the sufficiently simple joys in our days be, then? What might we see and say and do that is simply joyful and therefore simply true? Talking to our neighbor in line? Giving and receiving a good morning (even in the afternoon when we just got up)? Making and keeping a simple promise for a simple thing? Sitting and watching some thing or person or other? A letter received from or written to a loved one? If Walcott is right, truth is to be found those ways, and inviolate as well. Inviolate because always present. If we get good news, we can enjoy of it as Walcott did. While we wait, though, simple joys are true enough to deliver an inviolate presence. Dean Loge