That's why I chose Yale.

This just makes me want to choose Yale all over again...


I love Dean Loge. He's so wise.

From his Sunday Notes and News email:
At beginnings, like this one at the start of the spring term, choices must be made, and we must turn and return to some place in us to make them. That place is not a place fixed or well formed, but a place that is shaped by some metaphorical weathering from previous days. By our efforts to make choices we will try to come to know and to sense who we are and who we want to be. Our choices will not lead to perfection or to some certain sense of self; that would be unrealistic (and dull). More real is that we must accept the uncertainties and ambiguities that are part of our being human, and the challenges of making decisions even though we do not have the information we would like to have at the time we make them.

We just do our best to mediate among competing values and goals and to be free to do what we came here to do, which is to work and learn and to be ourselves as best we can as we know ourselves for now. One way to think about uncertainties is to think that the uncertainties, and the ambiguities they contain, are rich in possibilities. We may try to make our choices, such as our choice of courses for our course schedules, in order to fix certainty on the tail of ambiguity. (We know the silliness of that game.) It is possible to realize instead that choices release uncertainty, which in turn releases the possibilities that come our way in the freedoms and ambiguities of life.

Spot on.