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MASTER’S PIECES
Good evening, fellow destinarians. Everyone’s back aboard the mother ship, at least those who are taking this fall’s voyage. I’m having a fantastic time with my classes, and I hope you are, too. We have some good things coming this week, so without further ado, here’s the near term forecast:
· Monday, September 2, 10:00 pm – 1:00 am: The TD Buttery Opens!!!! Shout out to Operations Manager Bob Kennedy and TD Buttmaster Kelly Wu for maybe the earliest opening night in TD recorded history. Kick off your nighttime reading with a visit to this legendary Yale social hub. Food = love. Cheap food = love without the pain.
· Tuesday, September 3, starting at 9:00 pm in TD Dining Hall: TD Music Fest 2013. Here’s a place where you can experience elevated communal consciousness (ECC). Hot pizza, home grown music and a rousing rendition of Wagon Wheel to close the evening. You haven’t plumbed the depths of the folk music scene until you have heard your Dean and Master do our signature song, and the evening will feature some actual musicians as well. Still time for you to step up and perform – email me at jeff.brenzel@yale.edu with your name and what you want to present. (We’ll take any group short of a full orchestra doing Rachmaninoff.)
· Saturday, September 7, outing with Silliman College to Hammonasset State Park: 12:30 pm (leave campus) to 4:30 pm (arrival back at campus). Our friends (!) across Temple Street had a great idea – a joint trip out to the really fine state park with beach and swimming just up the coast near Madison, CT. I go there often – it’s GORGEOUS. Bus ride is about 30 minutes each way. TD’s Kelly Wu is coordinating the TD contingent, and the bus has room for 25 from Silliman and 25 from TD. To sign up, stop by the TD Master’s Office starting Tuesday morning to put down your name and leave a $5 deposit, to be returned in full once you’re on the bus. No cost for the trip and no food served – hit brunch before you go and/or bring your own snacks or water. Questions, contact kelly.wu@yale.edu.
Other important stuff. We have a slick new treadmill in the aerobic section of the multipurpose room – check it out. (Another shout out to Bob Kennedy.) Bob also sez: if you have boxes in the storage room downstairs, please get them out asap so we can start some exercise classes. Also, if you have a bike, remember to lock that baby up, whether inside TD or outside a classroom building, and lock it to something, not just itself.
Other than that, do your best to find a place in the sun. It can be a beautiful world.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
Applications available to be a Queer Peer Counselor: Queer Peers is a peer counseling group that specializes in LGBTQ issues. They provide a safe space for students to talk about such issues, whether they’re unsure how to support their newly-out gay roommate or are questioning their own sexuality. Queer Peers is currently looking for new staffers. This is a paid position. Staffers normally work a few nights a month in the LGBTQ Resource Center in Swing Space. The commitment can be fairly small, but the opportunity to help another student is a great one. Anyone is welcome to apply, regardless of how they identify. If you would like to apply, please answer the application questions below and send them toyalequeerpeers@gmail.com Any questions should also be sent to yalequeerpeers@gmail.com. The Queer Peers will be required to attend a group training session on September 7, 10 AM – 2 PM.
At the top of your application, put your name, college, and year.
1. Why do you want to be a Queer Peer counselor? 2. What do you think makes a good peer counselor? 3. Briefly describe any previous peer counseling experience you may have. 4. What would you do or say if your personal beliefs conflicted with the actions or decisions of the student who came to you for counseling? 5. How do you think your personal experiences with identity would help you relate to others in a Queer Peers context? 6. Will you be able to attend a mandatory training session on September 7?
7. (Optional) Would you be willing to act as a “designated queer peer” for your college? Your college’s students would be told they could contact you at your e-mail address if they wanted to talk. You would also be responsible for outreach and advertisement within your college.
Useful Websites
http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/undergraduate-regulations Undergraduate Regulations
http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/calendar/ Yale College Calendar with Pertinent Deadlines 2013-2014
http://cipe.yalecollege.yale.edu/ Center for International and Professional Experience website
http://ucs.yalecollege.yale.edu/ Undergraduate Career Services
www.yale.edu/sophomore Sophomore Advising web site
https://yale-csm.symplicity.com/students/ Summer Activities Survey link
ACADEMICS
TD Dean’s Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30 AM to 5 PM.
To make an appointment, visit or call the dean’s office (203-432-0754)
Course Schedule Deadlines:
Class of 2017 Monday, September 9, 5 PM
Classes of 2016 Tuesday, September 10, 5 PM
Class of 2015 Tuesday, September 10, 5 PM
Class of 2014 Wednesday, September 11, 5 PM
Schedules are handed in to the TD dean’s office
The deadline is strictly enforced. A late schedule incurs a fine of $50
A late schedule cannot elect any courses CR/D/Fail
Clerical Error on schedule: $50
A schedule of 3 or 3.5 course credits and a schedule of 6 or 6.5 course credits needs my permission before the schedule is handed in. Schedule an appointment to see me (see above).
Changes in Classes and their Meeting Times and Places: Course changes and courses added or deleted since the publication of the Blue Book are recorded on line at OCS. The on line list of courses is the most current one, updated as needed.
Overlapping Class Meeting Times: Class meeting times may not overlap by more than 15 minutes once a week. Required are a conversation with me, compelling academic reasons for the overlap, and with my assistance 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 the 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 SOM courses must be handed in to my office in the first week of shopping period, well before the deadline for your course schedule, because SOM determines its class enrollments well before your schedule is due.]
Courses at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and at a professional school cannot elect the CR/D/Fail option.
Credit for these courses on your transcript: When you put a Graduate or Professional School course on your schedule, zero (0) course credits are recorded for 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. Some courses earn 1 course credit in Yale College and some earn .5 course credits (most commonly in SOM and EPH).
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. See YCPS (Blue Book) page 42, paragraph 4. Enrolling in an independent study requires the additional permission of a Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Deadline to apply for a Fall-Term Leave of Absence: Friday, September 6. See me if you are thinking about requesting a leave of absence for this fall term.
List of QR and Science courses without prerequisite:
http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/sqr/qr/courses.html
FRESHMEN and SOPHOMORES
Stars Program for students who are considering or are a major in the sciences, math or engineering. STARS is for students who have historically been underrepresented in these fields. This includes students of color, women, students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, first generation college students, and the physically challenged. The program will offer:
- Study group workshops focused on the first and second year courses in Biology, Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science
- Faculty and graduate student mentors
- Panels of interest to you and
- Social events
Previous STARS students have loved the program and an evaluation of the program showed that students who participate in STARS perform better and are much more likely to graduate in their intended major than those who did not do STARS. Application Deadline: September 9, 2013 at 4:00 p.m.Applications and more information can be found here: http://science.yalecollege.yale.edu/stars-home Information Session: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 5:00 p.m, Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park Street; Tuesday, September 3, 2013 at 4:00 p.m, Gallery, La Casa Cultural, 301 Crown Street. Questions to Rosalinda V. Garcia, Assistant Dean of Yale College, Director, Latino Cultural Center,
(203) 432-2913 Rosalinda.garcia@yale.edu
STUDY ABROAD
Yale Course in Spring Term at Yale-in-London
Yale-in-London is now accepting applications for the 2014 Spring Term; the deadline is Friday, October 4th. New and exciting courses are on offer covering Sociology, History of Art, and Drama…and you earn Yale credits automatically as well as distribution credits in both Humanities and Social Sciences. Take classes that immerse you in historical sites, theater, and museums–all while living in one of the world’s greatest cities! Talk to our YIL alums in your college to find out more, and for details on courses, faculty, and the application process see:
http://britishart.yale.edu/education/yale-college-students/yale-in-london
CAREER SERVICES
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NOTES
The obvious: Classes have started. We are in shopping period, trying to settle what we can settle. What we cannot settle can be unnerving in its uncertainty and ambiguity. But decisions must be made. I heard someone quip that he needs a “personal shopper.” The response: “What I need is a personal decider.” (Understood.) In the end, though, we will decide and we will hand in our course schedules, we will program our phones and our obligations, and we will fix our routines. Our habits will take shape and take on the repetition of calendars and deadlines.
The less obvious: As we look at our list of courses and the chronology of our syllabi, we must try also to see and pursue the experience of our education, of our learning together, and of our living together. It will rain and it will snow, and some boat will shelter us in our dining hall, in Commons, and even in some town eatery. 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. (Understood.) Our common ground reminds us that we are people, and fortunately we live in a place that cares about people as well as subjects to teach and learn.
The mysterious: Recently, I went out and stood in the courtyard, under the clear sky. Some on their cell phones and a few stars kept me company. I looked up, as you may look up from your work – out the window or at a friend, a poster, or photo from home. 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 (so true, alas). We privately know and must accept that we are not perfect (alas, but true). Few of us do admit it out loud to others (understood), but it might be some comfort to each of us to know that each feels in some ways like an imperfect being, falling short of all those expectations somehow. We can be shy to show weakness or shortcomings – what we have so much in common with each other but rarely speak about. Imperfect as each of us is, under the stars 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. That is what is called courage. That is the courage, the heart, of the TD Lion.
The end: 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.
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Let us live deliberately.
“What kind of adult do I want to be and become?”
“What values do I want for myself and for my community?”