Today was the first day of classes at Yale, and I decided it was time to finally start getting back into the blogging spirit.今天是第一天的班，在耶鲁，我决定是时候了，终于可以开始接收到博客精神。 What better way to start than a proclamation of my love for this new place?有什么更好的方式来开始比宣布我的爱，为这个新的地方？
I don’t know that I can sufficiently articulate my supreme delight and excitement for the next four […]我不知道，我可以充分地阐明我最高的喜悦和激动，为未来四年[ … … ]

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In March the Yale Daily News ran a nice little piece about the growing admissions blogging trend nationwide.今年3月份，美国耶鲁每日新闻冉好少一块约日益招生博客趋势，在全国范围内。 The key piece in it for me was the news that Yale had no plans to start a blog or similar transparency-promoting site anytime soon.关键在一块为我这个消息是说，耶鲁大学还没有计划，开始对博客或相似的透明度，促进工地很快。 Zachary Abrahamson reports:扎卡里abrahamson报告：
Blogs Elucidate Admit Process March 9, 2007博客澄清过程中承认2007年3月9日
Yale presently has […]耶鲁大学目前有[ … … ]

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“Awesome,” I said to myself. "可怕的， "我对自己说。 “This questionnaire has been helpfully designed to take only a few minutes- how thoughtful of the Yale Admissions Office!” How wrong I was. "这份问卷已协助设计，只需数分钟-如何周到的耶鲁大学招生办公室！ "怎么不对我。 I opened the questionnaire-packet to find myself confronted by about 100 questions.我打开问卷包，以发现自己面临着约100提问。 Allowing a mere 10 seconds per question, that survey would take nearly 17 minutes to complete.让仅仅10秒，每个问题，调查就要花近17分钟才能完成。 “A few” indeed. "少数" 。 Was the survey gratuitously long?被调查的无偿长时间？ Not particularly–I still filled it out.没有什么特别-我仍然充满拿出来。 But I was annoyed by the misrepresentative sell.但我是恼火，由misrepresentative出售。 Was it necessary?是否有必要呢？

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U.S. News & World Report ran a story two weeks ago about the “drastically higher” rejection rates women face at many colleges compared to men.美国新闻与世界报道冉一个故事，两个星期前，关于"大幅度提高"的截留率女性在面对许多高校与男性相比。 This well known fact comes as no shock to those who know the numbers– more females graduate from high school and more of them seek college degrees than do their male counterparts.这个众所周知的事实来作为无震动了那些知道有多少-更多的女性毕业生，高中及以上的，他们追求大学本科学历的比男性多。 Their percentage in colleges and universities continues to grow.其百分比在高校继续增长。 Alex Kingsbury describes the stats, informing us that “From rough parity in 1980, women made up 57 percent of the 16.6 million American collegegoers in 2006.徐家kingsbury描述统计，通知我们说： "从粗糙平价在1980年中，妇女占57 ％的1660万美国人collegegoers在2006年推出。 By 2010, the Department of Education expects the ratio to be around 60 to 40.” What’s the magic of that 60/40 number?到2010年，教育部门的期望比例约为60比40 ， "有什么神奇的说， 60/40号码？ According to Kingsbury, “anecdotal evidence suggests that once a campus reaches, say, a 60-to-40 split in favor of either gender, the college becomes less attractive to applicants of both sexes.”据kingsbury ， "有证据表明，一旦校园内到达，也就是说， 60至40分裂主张，不论男女，学院变得那么有吸引力的申请人，不论男女" 。

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First I got the NetID, then I went into Webmail (interestingly called Horde, I discovered–apt given the number of new Yalies about the log in) and, having set a password, I sent first a test email, then a blanket ‘hello world look at me’ to friends and family from the new @yale.edu address.首先我得到了在特定时间，然后我走进邮局（有趣的所谓部落后，我发现-亚太鉴于一些新的yalies关于登陆） ，并在设定一个密码，我第一次派出一个测试电子邮件，然后一刀切'你好世界看我的'向朋友和家人从new@yale.edu地址。 What’s […]什么的[ … … ]

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