<p>The only people I know who weren’t placed in their first three choice areas were those who were unfortunately placed in overflow housing.</p>
<p>Great! I just really don’t want to be in the Quad and so removed from the rest of the campus.</p>
<p>Did any of you all receive a confirmation email after you committed to Smith?</p>
<p>Yes, I received one with my deposit payment information and one confirming that my deposit had been received at the same time, and another one welcoming me into the Class of 2015 a few days later.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know not to get committed onto one specific area of campus… but I love all the houses on Lower Elm, so I’m hoping that I won’t be disappointed in the end! I’d be so sad if I were placed in the Quad, though, considering those are like my last choices… </p>
<p>I did receive a confirmation email, and also a housing form received confirmation email (although when I went back to edit my choices, they never sent me another confirmation like the website said they would… eh).</p>
<p>Finished reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks! It’s a great book - I’m glad that Smith chose it as pre-orientation reading :)</p>
<p>Oh wow that is your book??? It is also my son’s book for Lehigh!</p>
<p>It’s a popular choice this year (and last year). </p>
<p>If you liked “The Immortal Life” I’m reading a wonderful book right now called “The Warmth of Other Suns”. It’s about The Great Migration of African Americans from the south to the north and west, starting around the end of WWI and continuing through the 1970s. It’s not really in the same medical vein as Immortal Life, but it does deal with issues of race (obviously) and shines a light on an area of history that’s very little studied, and yet very central to the way America developed and how it looks today (at the start of the Great Migration, only 10% of American blacks lived outside the South. By the end, 30-40 years later, it would be close to 50%, some six million people migrated). And it tells it through the lens of the individual experiences of four “characters”, real migrants who left the south for opportunities and freedoms beyond the caste system. </p>
<p>It’s long, but hey, you have all summer, right? Very compelling if this genre of sociological/historical books appeals to you.</p>