This is a follow up to a popular post I made few days ago, “这是一个后续行动的热门职位,我前几天, " Spend a Week inside my mailbox!花一个星期内,我的信箱! ” which offered readers the chance to see everything I got in the mail over the course of a week. " ,其中所提供的读者有机会看到一切,我在邮件的过程中的一个星期。 There have been some budget cuts, and in this installment we can only offer one day of mail.但也有一些削减预算,并在此分期付款,我们只能提供一天的邮件。 Still an exciting opportunity, I think.还有一个令人兴奋的机会,我觉得。

This is all the mail I got on Wednesday, August 30th.这是所有的邮件,我对周三, 8月30日。 If I get anything today (the 31st) I will edit this post and add it, doubling your value for the same low, low price of zero dollars.如果我做了什么,今天( 31日)我会编辑这个职位,并放入它,你的倍增价值相同的低,价格低的零美元。 Can’t beat that bargain.不能胜表示,讨价还价。

University of Pittsburgh sent me and my parents letters along with a pamphlet. 美国匹兹堡大学的派我和我的父母来信随着一本小册子。 My parents and I both got letters telling us how awesome UPitt was and how much I could do there, specifically talking about the Honors College.我的父母和我都得到来信告诉我们如何令人敬畏upitt是多少,我可以用在那里,具体地谈到荣誉学院。 I’ve seen plenty of letters addressed “To the Parents of Sam Jackson” and I guess that speaks to their power to influence children and the hopes of marketers that they themselves can be influenced.我见过很多的信"给家长的萨姆杰克逊的"我猜说,以自己的力量去影响孩子,并希望营销人员,他们本身也受到影响。 Perhas not influenced–just informed . perhas没有影响-刚刚通知 I know they didn’t know much about UPitt before I shared all that these letters had taught me.我知道他们并不知道多少upitt之前,我也有同感,所有这些信件教我。 Then there was a “Fall Saturdays at Pitt” visitation pamphlet which had a nice picture of the Cathedral of Learning on it.又是一个"秋天星期六于皮特"探视小册子,其中有一个很好的了解大教堂的学习上。 I think the Cathedral of Learning is quite cool.我觉得大教堂的学习是相当凉爽。 Sadly I don’t imagine having the time any saturday this fall to get out to Pittsburg, and even had UPitt been on my list months ago (it was not, sorry) I wouldn’t have had the chance to visit it in July (see: CMU, old post).可惜我没有想象过的时候,任何周六在今年秋天走出来,以匹兹堡,甚至已被upitt我名单上个月前(这不是,对不起) ,我是不会有机会访问它在7月(见:债务工具中央结算系统,旧员额) 。

Georgetown College sent me another pamphlet of something. 乔治敦大学寄给我的另一个小册的东西。 They want me to come visit them.他们希望我来探望他们。 Visiting Georgetown College is, I’m afraid, not a good enough reason for me to go to Kentucky, although they are near Lexington, KY which I always am glad to say hosts the world’s largest pendulum clock in its public library.来访的乔治敦大学,是我恐怕,不是一个好足够的理由,我去肯德基, 虽然他们是附近的列克星敦,健扬,我总是很高兴地说,主办世界上最大的时钟钟摆,在其公共图书馆。 That spectacle aside, I will not be visiting.这眼镜之外,我将不会访问。 I feel quite bad about Georgetown College, actually, that they’re sending me these things.我觉得很不好乔治敦大学,其实,他们正在给我这些东西。 You see, back in July when I was looking for the visiting hours of Georgetown University… all these webforms look more or less the same… and that’s why Cornell College in Iowa once called my house.你看,早在去年七月时,我一直在寻找来访时的乔治敦大学…所有这些webforms期待更多或更少,同时, … …这也就是为什么康乃尔大学在衣阿华一旦所谓我的房子。 Sorry, guys, my mistake.对不起,家伙,我的错误。

George Mason University sent me a very cute little envelope with lovely gold embossing on it but inside there was one little page asking me to go online to express interest so they could send me more stuff. 乔治梅森大学寄给我的一个很可爱的小信封,有可爱的黄金压花,但里面有一小页叫我去上网,以表达兴趣,使他们能寄给我更多的东西。 I felt bad about this one, too, because they’re contacting me so late in the game.我感觉不好,这就是过,因为他们是我接触到这么晚的比赛。 George Mason, I don’t know anything about you!乔治梅森,我不知道什么你!

and, the piece de resistance,另外,一块德阻力,

Brown University sent me their viewbook! 布朗大学寄给我,他们viewbook ! The first thing I saw was, of course, the cover.第一件事,我看到了,当然是封面。 I make note of the cover specifically in comparison to UPenn’s viewbook, received and reviewed so recently.我要说明的封面上,特别是在比较upenn的viewbook ,收到并审查了,所以最近。 Like UPenn, Brown’s cover was a showcase of their seal.像upenn ,棕色的封面是一个展示自己的印章。 UnlikeU not just the plain stone seal looking very cold and intimdiating. unlikeu不只是平原石印章展望非常寒冷及intimdiating 。 Instead, with a nice play o shadows and light, it was off to the side of the cover, with “BROWN” taking full center in a color nearly one golden retriever (what can I say, I’ma sucker for golden-orange).反之,一个好的发挥o阴影和光线,它是小康向一边的封面,以"棕色"充分考虑中心在颜色接近黄金特殊训练(我能说什么呢,我是吸盘,为金橙) 。 The tree leaning across the page delicately did the trick, too, though at first glance I was fearing it might have been ivy, which would have been a little tacky.树倾全国一页微妙做的把戏,太,虽然乍看之下,我担心它可能被爬山虎,将已有点粘性。 Really what I liked about the cover was the fact that it let Brown’s sorta Richardsonian Romanesque architecure stand front and center to impress and display the seal, rather than leaving it naked in the center of the page.真的,我喜欢封面上是一个事实,即它让布朗的sorta richardsonian罗马architecure站在前面和中心,借以展示印章,而不是任由赤裸在该中心的网页。 Good design choice.良好的设计选择。 Inside it’s not a full follow-through, but still quite good.里面虽然不是一个完全的后续通过,但仍然是相当好的。 There was a lot of information in it and the effort to try to fit it all in clearly impacted ease of reading in some places, but not too much.很多这方面的资料在电脑和努力尝试,以适应这一切显然在冲击便于阅读,在一些地方,但不是太多。 I quite liked it.我很喜欢它。

That’s all for today, folks.这一切对于今天,乡亲。