troubled... Could anyone give me some help?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>I sent an email to Office of International Education at Carnegie Mellon just now. but I sincerely believe that they are less dependable than I thought, so I'm seeking some help here.</p>

<p>this is the email sent to OIE
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Hello
my name is Zeyang Li, an incoming freshman, from China.</p>

<p>I got a little confused by the information offered by various web
pages and hope that you can give me some help.
It seems the move-in date was postponed to August 20 from Aug, 17.</p>

<p>but the registration date is Aug 17 for international student (if I
make it right), so where I'm expected to live in during Aug 17-20, or
is there any misunderstanding?</p>

<p>Another problem is that I bought a ticket that will have me arrived on
Pittsburgh on Aug 15, because I found this on</p>

<p><a href="http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/oie/usettle.cfm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/oie/usettle.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>where something like this is promised:</p>

<p>Housing and Dining Services makes every effort for you to move
directly into your fall housing assignment but as a resident with
early arrival status you may be required to move into a temporary
assignment for a short period of time.</p>

<p>Later I thought I'd better check out if there's indeed any
transitional housing available and if I can really be counted as early
arrival. Not very surprised(for my past a few month's understanding of
Carnegie Mellon), I found that transitional housing will be
off-service after Aug 13. After I called the housing services, they
too responded that nothing they can do or offer.</p>

<p>I'm busy checking the hotels around Carnegie Mellon, but I'd really be
thankful if you can help me find a near-by resident, a professor or a
grateful student who would like to shelter me to the move-in date(Aug
17 or Aug 20) for a price lower than those awkwardly expensive hotels.</p>

<p>Hope you can reply as soon as possible.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>Zeyang Li
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<p>Plus I'm an SCS freshman.
Please don't delete this post(I didn't expect it, but just in case), it's possibly ad-like, but please, essentially it just a pity freshman trapped in a whirl pool of confusion, looking for help.
Great thanks if anyone can offer any sort of adivce.</p>

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<p>I hope things work out ok....I've flown cross-pacific and trust me the last thing you want to be worrying about is accomodations after what has to be like 23+ hrs of flying if you're going to Pittsburgh. I'm surprised they didn't offer anything though since you're in a bind....bc some of the people going to origins are allowed to move their stuff into their rooms around the 17th (but not live in them since they are leaving for that weekend)...and I think some of the fall sports athletes are going to be on campus already too but I'm not sure about that. Policy is policy I guess. Here are some cheaper hotel rates that some people got from hotwire.com </p>

<p><a href="http://www.betterbidding.com/index.php?act=Search&CODE=show&searchid=18f141fdd939402f36cce036a3f02c84&search_in=posts&result_type=topics&highlite=%2Bpittsburgh%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.betterbidding.com/index.php?act=Search&CODE=show&searchid=18f141fdd939402f36cce036a3f02c84&search_in=posts&result_type=topics&highlite=%2Bpittsburgh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>you could possibly stay at one of those places for those 3 nights without really spending much if things don't work out....good luck</p>

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<p>move in dates for international students IS august 17th....</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot, Spetsanz!!! and dexter87</p>

<p>dexter87, are you sure it is aug 17th? it will make my life easier...</p>

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<p>yeah absolutely....i saw this in 2 places....firstly in the "international students" section on my "now that i am enrolling" page and then here: [url=<a href="http://www.housing.cmu.edu/FirstYear/faq/css/faq.html%5DLINK%5B/url"&gt;http://www.housing.cmu.edu/FirstYear/faq/css/faq.html]LINK[/url&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p>

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<p>Housing and Dining is really dumb sometimes... I had a question once about housing, and they told me contradictory things several times.</p>

<p>Last year international students were told they might be in temporary housing for a few days, but I think all of them were moved into their dorm rooms as soon as they got to campus for international orientation.</p>

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<p>They are not merely dumb...</p>

<p>I hope they can be dumb enough to let me move in as soon as I arrive...</p>