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MASTER’S PIECES
Good evening, gentles. All who have finished, we salute you. Those with a mile or two still to go, we’re here to keep the lights on for you.
It’s been a good trip along the path this fall, and look forward to walking the spring road with you, too. Peace for the holidays and a joyous new year to come.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
TD Quiet Hours: 11 PM – 8 AM, every night during reading and examination periods, especially including the music practice rooms and the recording studio. Of course, it is most courteous to keep the noise down during all hours during our remaining days of examination period.
Timothy Dwight Library (TDL) and our computer rooms are for quiet studying only. Use other places in the college for group studying and conversation (for instance, buttery area, Selin Lounge, Common Room and South Common Room). Also, please clean up when you are done studying (soda cans and snacks and wrappers and the like) and please do not to spread out so much at a table that others cannot also study at that table.
TD Dining Hall Open 24 Hours for quiet studying during reading and examination periods. Wireless access is available. Hot water for tea, coffee, and hot chocolate will be available each night the dining hall is able to manage it and as everyone clean up after themselves.
The freshman counselor application is available online now at http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/freshman-counselors. All juniors may apply from December 1-January 31. The deadline for applications is January 31 at 4 PM. If you plan to be abroad in spring 2014, arrange with Dean Loge to complete your application and interviews before winter break. An information meeting with current TD freshman counselors will be held after winter break. Attendance at the meeting is not part of the application process – it is only for information and to ask questions of the current TD freshman counselors.
2014-2015 Peer Liaison Program applications are now available for all rising sophomores, juniors and seniors. Peer liaisons are upperclassmen who help connect freshmen to the programs and services of Yale’s cultural and community resource centers, including the Afro-American Cultural Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, the Chaplain’s Office, the Office of International Students and Scholars, the Latino Cultural Center, the LGBTQ Resource Center, and the Native American Cultural Center. Click here to complete the 2014-2015 online application (if the link does not work from here, try looking for Peer Liaison Program on line to find the application). The deadline for application submission is Friday, February 7, 2014. Selected applicants will be contacted for a personal interview. Decision letters will be emailed on Friday, March 7, 2014. Questions to Rodney T. Cohen, Assistant Dean of Yale College, Director, Peer Liaison Program.
TD Dining Hall dishes and cutlery and cups – please return them. Thanks.
Check for your mail in the mailroom. You may or may not know that there is a mailroom next to entryway C where many of you have mail waiting for you. Before you leave for break, please check your mailbox (the mailboxes are arranged by suite/room number) and remember in the future to check it periodically throughout the semester.
The College closes at noon on Wednesday, December 18. It reopens at 9 AM on Wednesday, January 8
ACADEMICS
The official final examination schedule and a list of assigned classrooms for fall term 2013 are available online at http://www.yale.edu/sfas/registrar/exams.htm.
Click “Yale College Fall 2013 Exam Locations” to display a list of all courses, sorted by subject, that are scheduled to hold a final examination. The list contains the day, start time, and assigned classroom(s) for the final exam. A link to the building codes and locations is just below the link to the exam list.
Please note that exam locations may change during the exam period, so you should check the location on the day of the examination to avoid confusion or delays.
Advice: Check this schedule daily because examination times AND examination rooms may change and because, well, you may wrongly remember the date and time of an examination.
Postponement of Final Examinations: The residential college dean (and only the residential college dean) may postpone an examination (ordinarily to January) only for certain reasons: if a student has three examinations scheduled within four time slots, whether or not each of these slots has an examination group number assigned to it (the 7 PM slot is included in this calculation); if a student has three examinations scheduled during the first two days of the final examination period; if a student has an incapacitating illness, family emergency (or another matter of comparable moment), or for the observance of religious holy days (See YCPS, page 52.)
Advice: Before the examination takes place, see me if you think any of these reasons apply to you (in case you misunderstand, for instance, the rules about postponing an examination and are not eligible to do so). Reminder: An examination cannot be postponed on account of travel arrangements or mis-arrangements.
Preregistration for Some Spring Term Courses: Several departments require preregistration or section preference before the spring term begins. APreregistration and Preference Selection Web page provides links to specific departmental information. I encourage you to visit this page to determine whether your potential spring-term courses require action before the first class meeting.
Pregistration opens for spring ‘14 introductory English Department courses
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 9:00am to Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 12:00am
INTRODUCTORY COURSES Preregistration for introductory English courses opens. Please visit the English department web site for detailed course information and application instructions (see link below).
• ENGL 114b Writing Seminars
• ENGL 115b Literature Seminars
• ENGL 120b Reading and Writing the Modern Essay
• ENGL 121b Styles of Academic and Professional Prose
• ENGL 125b Major English Poets: Chaucer to Donne
• ENGL 126b Major English Poets: Milton to Eliot
• ENGL 127b Readings in American Literature
• ENGL 129b Tragedy
• ENGL 130b Epic
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Contact:
http://english.yale.edu/undergraduate-program/pre-registration.
Registration for Spring Term 2014
Freshmen are required to attend a registration meeting on Sunday, January 12, TD Dining Hall, 9 PM. At this meeting each is permitted to pick up only his or her own registration packet. Failure to attend incurs a fine of $50.
Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors pick up your registration packet on Monday, January 13 in the Thompson Room, 8:30 AM – 5 PM. Failure to pick up your registration packet by 5 PM incurs a fine of $50. Each is permitted to pick up only his or her own registration packet.
CAREER SERVICES
Walk-in hours with a UCS adviser will continue at 55 Whitney Avenue, Monday-Thursday from 1:00-4:00pm until December 18 and will resume on January 6.
Visit the UCS Calendar of Events for a full list of upcoming events. Log in to Yale UCS Symplicity under Events/Employer Information Sessions.
SUMMER
Yale Summer Session Courses Abroad: Applications open December 15 and the deadline to apply is February 15. For questions about a program or the International Summer Award, schedule anappointment with a study abroad adviser.
Yale Summer Session 2014: Updated course listings will be available soon.
Session A: June 2- July 4
Session B: July 7- August 8
Online fellowship advice available 24/7: Fellowship options and advice about letters of reference, making connections abroad, and putting together a fellowship proposal and budget are available at www.yale.edu/fellowships . Also, advising appointments may be via Skype or telephone.
John Thouron Prize Supports the eight-week summer Pembroke-King’s program at the University of Cambridge. Eligible: Yale sophomores or juniors who are U.S. citizens and permanent residents without significant prior experience abroad
Campus deadline: January 6, 2014, 3pm
Humanity in Action Summer Fellowships
Support participation in a program focusing on human rights and global issues. HIA programs take place in five countries; fellows will be assigned to one.
Eligible: Yale freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and graduating seniors
Deadline: January 9, 2014
Teaching English in Poland Summer Program
Help Polish students (elementary-high school age) practice conversational English and learn about American culture during a 3-week summer immersion experience—and become acquainted with the people, history, language, and culture of Poland.
Eligible: U.S. undergraduates who are native speakers of American English (knowledge of Polish not required)
www.thekf.org/programs/teaching_english_in_poland/
Deadline: January 11, 2014
Davis Projects for Peace
Support grassroots projects designed by individual students or groups that “promote peace and address the root causes of conflict among parties.” Projects must take place over the summer following receipt of the award.
Eligible: Yale freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors (U.S. citizenship not required)
http://studentgrants.yale.edu/grant_detail.asp?gid=142; www.davisprojectsforpeace.org
Campus deadline: January 13, 2014, 3pm
Arthur Liman Public Interest Summer Fellowship Program
Supports summer internships focused on public interest law
Eligible: Yale undergraduates
www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/undergraduatesummerfellowship.htm
Deadline: January 15, 2014
NOTES
Now that our fall term is over, it is time to reflect about what needs to be put down, what needs to be held, and what needs to be picked up. I want to send again what I sent last year. It seemed to mean for many, including me, and maybe it can again.
“Two traveling monks reached a town where there was a young woman waiting to step out of her sedan chair. The rains had made deep puddles and she couldn’t step across without spoiling her silken robes. She stood there, looking very cross and impatient. She was scolding her attendants. They had nowhere to place the packages they held for her, so they couldn’t help her across the puddle.
The younger monk noticed the woman, said nothing, and walked by. The older monk quickly picked her up and put her on his back, transported her across the water, and put her down on the other side. She didn’t thank the older monk. She just shoved him out of the way and departed.
As they continued on their way, the young monk was brooding and preoccupied. After several hours, unable to hold his silence, he spoke out. ‘That woman back there was very selfish and rude, but you picked her up on your back and carried her! Then she didn’t even thank you!’
‘I set the woman down hours ago,’ the older monk replied. ‘Why are you still carrying her?’” **
It is good (healthy) to carry no longer what no longer needs to be carried. Put it down. Let it go.
This term each of us learned a lot, in the classroom and out. We know that. Sorting out exactly what we learned, though, is what time away from campus is for.
Each of us will be away, by some distance, near or far. During this time we may look back and reflect, and we can pick up and carry into next term what went well, what we learned about ourselves and our relationships to others and to passing time, what inner and resilient resources we value, what friends and family we cherish, what talents and capabilities we have and have yet to discover. And much more, of course; no list can suffice. During our time away we may reflect upon what we decide to carry into our next term, what we decide to set down, what we decide to pick up.
The very lightness of our being can lift us into our hopes and aspirations for ourselves. Let it be.
Best wishes for a restful and reflective time away (or so).
Dean Loge
** “The Heavy Load” Zen Shorts, Jon J. Muth. Scholastic Press: New York. 2005. A gift from a TD student.