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Re: tech a little confused on the numbers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jen Selby)
Fri Aug 30 13:44:22 2002

Date:         Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:17:15 -0400
From:         Jen Selby <jenselby@MIT.EDU>
To:           MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To:  Your message of "Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:32:38 EDT."
              <y688z2ob93t.fsf@multics.mit.edu>

> So only about 300 frosh (out of a thousand or so) requested
> reassignment at all?  That feels pretty pitiful to me.  Is it the case
> that the over-the-summer material was so good that freshmen
> successfully picked dorms they're happy and fit into the local
> communities, or are they just lame?

The summer material was not that good, but I think many people decided
that they liked their choice anyway.  And many others were in fact
lame.

But really, this is actually much better than what I had heard that the
administration was hoping for, which was less than 10% requesting a
move.

Jen


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