LOWELL HOUSE NEWSLETTER Wednesday 2 September Volume 33 Issue 1 * * * Welcome Back, Everyone! Please note that we will be accepting Newsletter submissions starting this weekend. To add in an announcement or posting, please email lohonews@fas.harvard.edu. Newsletter Format Guide: Announcements from Advising Tutors will always follow the staff sections each week. Announcements regarding *Events* and *Attractions* will always be in the last section. Please remember to scroll down to that last section for event announcements and details if you are looking for them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALENDAR Wednesday, September 2: * Classes start on a Monday schedule * Lowell Dining Hall CLOSED for Activities Fair in the Quad Thursday, September 3: * FIRST TEA of the semester, 5:00pm, Masters' Residence Friday, September 4: * Lowell Dining Hall CLOSED for "Aloha, Harvard" event, 5:00-8:00pm, Tercentenary Theatre Monday, September 7: * LABOR DAY, University Holiday, House Office closed Wednesday, September 9: * Only chance to shop Wednesday classes * First Senior Common Room lunch, 12:45pm, SCR; 1:00pm, Dining Hall Thursday, September 10: * STUDY CARD DAY, completed study cards collected in the Dining Hall until 4:45pm * You are warmly invited to TEA, 5:00-6:00pm, Masters' Residence Friday, September 11: * Last day upon which undergraduates may register late for the fall term in FAS * Last day upon which undergraduates may cancel their registration without payment of tuition * Last day upon which undergraduates may submit cross-registration petitions; see relevant school for additional deadlines Sunday, September 13: * SOPHOMORE CRUISE, 3:00-5:00pm; load at 2:45pm, Newell Boat House * All-House BBQ, 5:30-7:15pm, Courtyard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FROM THE RESIDENT DEAN * Brett Flehinger, Allston Burr Resident Dean Room A-22, 5-2283 (lo-abrd@fas.harvard.edu) Hi everyone and welcome/welcome back to Lowell House! I’m trying to meet everyone as fast as I can, so please stop by office hours, say hi in the dining hall, or find me around the courtyard. I’m here to help any and all Lowellians with administrative and advising questions, so come on by. Here are a few key points as we start: - ENTRYWAY MEETINGS. They are fun, nutritious, and mandatory for all entryways at the beginning of the year. Please stay tuned for an announcement from your entryway tutor. - ONLINE REGISTRATION. You can register online at your my.harvard.edu portal until Tuesday at 11:59pm. After that there’s a $50 fee. If you have a registration hold, please let me know and I’ll try to help. -THIS WEDNESDAY = MONDAY. The first day of classes is Wednesday, September 2. However, because the only Monday in shopping week is a holiday, the university will treat Wednesday, September 2 as a Monday. What this means is: Monday/Wednesday classes will meet on September 2 Monday only classes will meet on September 2 Wednesday only classes won’t meet until September 9 - ELECTRONIC COURSE ENROLLMENT. The course enrollment tool is open at your my.harvard.edu portal. You can print your study card from the convenience of your room and then obtain all of the required signatures, including your in-House sophomore adviser (for sophomores) or your concentration adviser (for juniors and seniors). You should turn your study card into your friendly tutors in the Lowell Dining Hall on Thursday, September 10 by 5:00 pm to avoid unfriendly late fees. - CROSS-REGISTRATION. If you wish to cross-register for a course at either MIT or another Harvard faculty, please come by the House Office for a cross-registration form. The FAS deadline may be a ways off, but other schools may have earlier deadlines. - SIMULTANEOUS ENROLLMENT. Please try to avoid conflicts in your class Schedule. If you have a conflict in course times, please read the policies on simultaneous enrollment in the Handbook for Students, then come and see me if you still have questions. - OFFICE HOURS THIS WEEK. I will have an open office hours from 1:00-2:00pm on Monday and Wednesday of this week and 11:00-12:00pm on Thursday and Friday. If you can’t make these time, just get in touch with Kit in the House Office (5-2283, lowell@fas) to set up an appointment with me. Best of luck with shopping week. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ASK BETH, the HOUSE ADMINISTRATOR * Beth Terry, A-22, 5-2283 (lo-admin@fas.harvard.edu) Dear Beth, I am a new student at Lowell and I don't like my room. I have never had people walking through my room to go to the bathroom before! And it's so small! I feel lost in the tunnels and I barely know anyone in the dining hall. Signed, Moody in M Dear Moody, First of all, I totally sympathize with the walk-through issue. It's really hard to adjust to at first. It takes some fortitude to manage sharing space (I have two kids, for instance, and it took me years to be able to deal with them escaping from their cages). However, the goal here is to blend you into the community and to make you part of it. So to aid in this assimilation/exercise we give you an opportunity to engage in 'Community Living'. This means that the walls are thin, the square footage is minimal and the critters are assertive. It also means that other human beings are present (in abundance) with their own noises and nosiness. Before you despair, remember that the wonderful flip side of this 'Community Living' --the Yin to your suffering Yang-- is the eventual discovery of the *Secret Lowellian* inside. It lurks in the chambers of your nascent alumni heart, eager to blossom. It feeds off tea and samosas, milk and cookies (taken weekly in the Library) and, when fully mature, a good draft of Stein Club beer to complete its development. So treasure your little Lowellian as it evolves. Be patient with it. You have support. Your helpmate in this journey will be your Resident Tutor; here to guide you through the labyrinth of the House tunnels and on also hand to assuage your fears with frequent doses of Ring Dings and Doritos. Before you know it M entry will seem like Valhalla and you will be scampering through the tunnels like a happy hamster, your spirit awash in the bonhomie of the Best. House. On. Campus. ~Beth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FROM THE FELLOWSHIPS TUTORS * Susanna Mierau (susanna_mierau@post.harvard.edu) * Josh Goldman (jdgoldm@fas.harvard.edu) * Courtney Peterson (cmpeters@fas.harvard.edu) LOWELL HOUSE FELLOWSHIPS WEBSITE The Fellowships section of the Lowell House website features an annotated list of common fellowships designed to make it easy to find fellowships that will fund whatever it is that you're hoping to do. Check it out at http://lowell.harvard.edu/fellowships FALL FELLOWSHIPS MEETING Stay tuned for the date of the Lowell House Fall Fellowships Meeting. We will give an overview of the kinds of fellowships available and the times of year when you need to apply. Students from ALL YEARS--especially sophomores--are encouraged to attend. DESSERT will be served. LOWELL FELLOWSHIPS MAILING LIST Want to know what fellowships are out there? Want to know about them before the deadlines appear in the newsletter? Want more information on the fellowships listed below? Subscribe to the fellowships mailing list to get notices about once every week or two of upcoming deadlines and things to think about (relevant for sophomores, juniors, and seniors). To subscribe, go to http://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/lowell-fellowships . OFFICE HOURS We hold office hours on Sunday evenings (and likely one other weekday this year) in the dining hall, during which we'd be happy to discuss your plans and look over your application essays. The first office hours for general fellowship information will be Sunday, September 6. To visit us during office hours, you need to sign up at least one day in advance on the sign-up sheet next to the fellowships bulletin board, right next to the entrance to the JCR. If you have specific questions, please email us at any time. UPCOMING INFOSESSIONS - 09 September: Harvard and Other Fellowships to the U.K., 3:00pm @ OCS - 14 September: Rockefeller Traveling Fellowships, 7:30pm, Pforzheimer - 15 September: Rockefeller Traveling Fellowships, 7:30pm, Winthrop - 29-30 September: Fellowships Proposal Writing Workshop, 3:00pm @ OCS - 29 September: Truman Scholarships (panel discussion), 4:30pm @ OCS * * * UPCOMING FELLOWSHIPS * * * FOR GRADUATE STUDY ABROAD: - 08 September: Mitchell Scholarship. Funds one year of graduate study at any university in Ireland or Northern Ireland. This year you will have to apply to Harvard for an endorsement. - 09 September: Fulbright Scholarship. Funds a year of study, research, or teaching in a foreign country. - 02 October: Churchill Scholarship. Funds one year of graduate study in science/math/ engineering at Cambridge University. Must have a 3.7 or higher. - 15 October: Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Funds 1-4 years of graduate study at Cambridge in any field. Must have strong academic record. Open to citizens of any country except the U.K. - 16 October: St Andrew's Society Scholarships. Funds one year of graduate study in Scotland. You must have at least one Scottish ancestor. Also in October: DAAD Scholarship. Funds 1 or 2 years of study in Germany, administered through CGS but their Harvard deadlines are not updated yet. FOR PURPOSEFUL TRAVEL (seniors only): - 09 October: Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship. Funds a year of purposeful travel in a foreign country. FOR GRADUATE STUDY AND/OR OTHER POSTGRADUATE ACTIVITIES: - 09 October: Luce Scholarship. One-year internship in Asia (no prior experience with Asia required). Contact CGS for this year's deadline. - 21 October: Merage institute for the American Dream. $10,000/year for two years for study, travel, internships, etc. Must have a green card or be a naturalized citizen. - 29 October: Carnegie Fellowship. Provides a one-year fellowship at the Carnegie Institute for International Peace. - 30 October: Hertz Fellowship. Funds 5 years of graduate study in the applied physical sciences. - 01 November: Soros Fellowship. Stipend + tuition grant for graduate study of any kind (including law & medicine). Must be a naturalized citizen, have a green card, or be the children of naturalized citizens. - 02-12 November (depending on field): NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Funds 3 years of graduate study in any field of science or engineering, including economics, psychology, and history of science. See http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201&org=NSF FOR UNDERGRADUATES: - HCRP grants for fall 2009. Funds research with Harvard faculty during the fall semester. Check HCRP website for this year's deadline (not updated yet) - 22 October: Truman Scholarship. Money for senior year of college and graduate school (and prestige). Open to juniors who plan to go into government or public service (broadly-construed). - 02 November: Goldwater Scholarship. Prize for outstanding sophomores or juniors in science/math/engineering. Also comes with funding toward your remaining undergraduate years. FOR MORE INFORMATION: See the Lowell House fellowships website.