<p>More newbies on campus :)</p>
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will allow MIT to increase undergraduate enrollment by about 100 students per year
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<p>Music to my ears.</p>
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Everyone here wants to increase the class size, said Dean for Admissions Marilee Jones, with many suggesting an increase of 100.
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<p>And she is right.</p>
<p>...but wait, this doesn't apply to '10, does it? -_-</p>
<p>...and I hate to be the dour old matron that I clearly am, but if yield keeps rising, increasing the class size by 10% won't really result in all that many more people actually being admitted.</p>
<p>If they're just starting to discuss details of this project, the dorm shift likely wouldn't happen for at least a couple more years at the earliest, and as the article also says, East Campus is (over)ripe for gutting/renovation (which would be an ... "interesting" project...), meaning EC residents might be relocated during the renovation, thereby pushing back any increase in class size during that project.</p>
<p>Lots of possible different scenarios there....</p>
<p>Mootmom, I will tell you that if they renovate (and relocate) East Campus before the end of 2008 they will have one mad student on their hands! I can't even think what his reaction would be. I tried to ask him about the possibility over Christmas but he said he was in denial and wouldn't talk about it. </p>
<p>Part of what he likes about EC is that no one much cares what you do with your room, the halls, etc., and in a new (or renovated) dorm there would be way too many restrictions.</p>
<p>over30, in no way am I eager to hear that EC would be renovated! (And it'd have to wait until a year after your "deadline" or there'd be a riot in my family, too.) I have to admit, I love EC the way it is. It could use some modern conveniences that it doesn't have (carrying all your stuff up 4 flights of stairs isn't the most fun thing ever), but it's Home to those who know and love it, and it's hard to imagine it any other way.</p>
<p>^ oh, yield. I'd forgotten ;)</p>
<p>Regarding EC, I could stand to lose the asbestos in my floorboards but other than that, STAY THE **** AWAY!</p>
<p>Not to mention the cockroaches and ants!</p>
<p>OOPS WAS I SUPPOSED TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER MAY 1ST TO SAY THAT</p>
<p>... and the WILD HAIRS!!</p>
<p>yeah. all those can go.</p>
<p>Why does East Campus not have to bother?</p>
<p>Ask the God.</p>
<p>"Don't be panic," says the God. And that's a fact.</p>