Notes and News – Week of 8/27
HL’s Pieces
Dear Red Lions,
First a giant welcome to the TD Class of 2022! And an equally big thank you to all the TDers who joined in the TD welcome/move-in crew this past Friday! We are so grateful for your good cheer and unflagging energy!
And here is our first “photo of the week” submitted by Kahlil Greene TD ‘2021, titled “TD movers”! Pictured from left to right are TD sophomores Lizzie Dolan, Seyade Tadele, Jadyn Trayvick, India Bhalla-Ladd, and Kahlil spearheading our welcome wagon!
For any of you new to TD, please note that we feature a photo each week submitted by a member of our community – students, staff, and fellows – so please email your pictures to me at mary.lui@yale.edu. Photos can be taken inside or outside of TD and should have a title or caption with the names of TD students pictured.
Please note that my TD office hours this year will continue to be on Wednesdays and Fridays from 1:30-3:30pm in my Head of College office. To make an appointment, please contact my senior administrator at Karen.mcgovern@yale.edu and she will find you a time.
TD Community Night will be on Tuesday 9/11 -- so mark your calendars! We will start at 8:30pm and have our usual pizza intermission. We welcome anyone who wants to share their talents with the TD community – especially our brand new first-years! Singers, musicians, poets, comedians… and, of course, magicians, and anyone else with a desire to get up and perform are all welcome!!! If you wish to sign up please go to this link.
Last but not least, TD welcomes Sarah Fox, graduate student in the School of Divinity, as our new conductor of the Timothy Dwight College Community Chamber Orchestra! You will be hearing more about auditions and how to get involved with our wonderful orchestra, the only one on campus with musicians ranging in ages from 12 to 70+!
Here are some more important TD events for this week:
Monday 8/27 (tonight!!!) 7:30pm Big Sibs/Little Sibs Ice Cream Cart Social (TD Courtyard)
Time to connect with your sibs!!! The TD upper years cannot wait to meet their little Sibs! Just come to the TD courtyard to meet your new TD sibs. Be sure to pick up a t-shirt and a cold treat from the ice cream cart!
Tuesday 8/28 6pm First Year Dinner (TD Dining Hall)
A wonderful occasion to celebrate the newest members of the TD community and the start of 112 bright Yale careers! Please come to the TD Common Room to receive your TD pins and sign in before the start of the dinner at 6pm. All upper years should proceed to Old Campus for a cookout.
Here are some important dates and events for next week:
Monday 9/3 4pm Deadline for submitting Creative Performing Arts (CPA) Award
All CPA funding proposals must be submitted electronically by the 4pm deadline. If you are applying for a CPA, you must meet with me to discuss your proposal. To make an appointment, please write Karen.mcgovern@yale.edu or come to the HoC office. To access the proposal and get a full description of the award categories, please go to this link. Please be sure to note what the CPA will NOT fund!
Monday 9/3 New Haven Labor Day Road Race
TD is once again sponsoring a group of TD runners for this great charity road race that goes right past TD's gates! Please go to this registration link and enter the code TDHALF20K to enter the 20k/half marathon or TD5K for the 5k race for your free entry. Online registration closes on Saturday 9/1 or until the spots are gone so don't delay! Please note that you must pick up your race packets yourselves. They will NOT be delivered to TD.
Monday 9/4 First Years’ Outing to Sunnyside Farm
For decades, TD has taken our first years on a special class outing. This year, we’re fortunate to have the opportunity to go to Sunnyside Farm, the home of Timothy Dwight College fellows Judge Guido Calabresi and Anne Calabresi. Our TD aides and college staff will be on hand to provide a great cookout and fun games for the afternoon! Stay tuned for our departure time shortly after New Haven roads reopen following the annual Labor Day race.
Wednesday 9/5 4:30pm Tea with Ann Miura-Ko, TD ‘98 (TD House)
Come join a conversation with “the most powerful woman in startups” named by Forbes magazine! Miura-Ko is a venture capitalist who was one of the first investors of Silicon Valley companies such as Lyft and backed companies such as Modcloth early in their development. She is also a pioneer investor in artificial intelligence and space. After graduation from Yale, she completed a PhD in math modeling and computer security at Stanford University. She currently serves on the Yale Corporation’s Investment Committee that oversees the Yale Endowment.
Without further ado, here is a word from Dean Mahurin...
Àshe,
HL
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Welcome back to Notes and News (or welcome… for the first time), TD! I will reissue a welcome-y piece of literature for my first quotation of the year: one of the poems that opens 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!
(nb from Dean: but please don't be a liar)
ACADEMICS – come in!
Don’t forget tomorrow’s mandatory registration meetings for upperclass students in the dining hall.
Class of 2021- 9:00 a.m.
Class of 2020- 9:45 a.m.
Class of 2019- 10:30 a.m.
If you miss this meeting, the registrar’s office will charge you fifty bucks. If you’re late to this meeting, I’ll be angry at you; additionally, after a certain point, lateness is equivalent to absence, and you’ll also be charged fifty bucks. Fair warning all around.
Preliminary Online Course Schedules due by August 28
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 tomorrow 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:
Class of 2022- Monday, September 10, before 5:00 p.m.
Classes of 2021 and 2020- Tuesday, September 11, before 5:00 p.m.
Class of 2019- Wednesday, September 12, 5:00 p.m.
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!).
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.
Online Course Selection:
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.
Degree Audit: Yale Degree Audit (YDA) is a tool that tracks your progress toward the bachelor’s degree. YDA is located on the Academics tab of Student Information System (SIS). YDA displays the Yale College degree requirements that you have already completed and those that are still pending. Yale Degree Audit does not take the place of face-to-face advising, although you may wish to share your audit with your adviser. Instead, it provides an easy-to-read summary of requirements, allowing you and your adviser to spend more time discussing course selection and academic goals. Do not rely solely on your degree audit when planning your courses; continue to use Yale’s standard systems for schedule planning, and employ YDA as an additional tool. More features will be added to YDA in the future, including the ability to track progress toward major requirements. If you have suggestions, general observations, or questions that are not answered by the FAQs, send them to registrar@yale.edu using the subject line “Degree Audit.” (And if you believe that academic information in your degree audit is incorrect, contact me as well!)
UPCOMING DATES AND DEADLINES
August 29 Classes begin
August 31 Friday classes do not meet; Monday classes meet instead
September 3 Labor Day; classes do not meet
September 12 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.