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<div><font><font face="Helvetica" color="#7F0000"><b><u>tl;dr:</u></b></font><font face="Helvetica"><b> </b></font><font face="Helvetica" color="#7F0000"><b>Please respond to the </b></font><a href="https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_820cqAGqSrYkPPL" target="_blank"><font face="Helvetica"><b>MIT
Graduate Housing Needs Survey</b></font></a><font face="Helvetica" color="#7F0000"><b> by October 5th to help MIT understand what types of graduate housing needs you prefer and at what price! As an added bonus, participants will be entered into a raffle to
win $100 and $50 prizes! </b></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">Dear graduate student,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica">The MIT Graduate Student Council needs your help to shape the future of graduate student housing at MIT! Following up from our recent advocacy efforts, the recently established Graduate Housing Working Group is working to understand
what types of housing MIT should provide and at what price to address housing needs. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica"><i>We need to hear from all graduate students, whether living on or off campus.</i></font><font face="Helvetica"> Please let us know your preferences by responding to the </font><a href="http://bit.ly/gradhousing17" target="_blank"><font face="Helvetica"><b>MIT
Graduate Housing Needs Survey</b></font></a><font face="Helvetica"><b> by Thursday, October 5th </b></font><font face="Helvetica">and</font><font face="Helvetica"><b> </b></font><font face="Helvetica"><b><u>help shape MIT's commitment for more graduate student
housing within the next few weeks.</u></b></font><font face="Helvetica"> </font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica"><b>The survey will be offering $100 and $50 prizes, with the odds of winning increasing as participation goes up</b></font><font face="Helvetica"> (rising from 1.5% to 4.5%). So help us gather data (and yourself win a prize) by encouraging
all your friends to participate in the survey!</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="background-color: white;">It is </span></font><font face="Helvetica"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>extremely important </i></span></font><font face="Helvetica"><span style="background-color: white;">that
we receive as many responses as possible, both for data purposes and </span></font><font face="Helvetica"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>to show that graduate students care about housing</i></span></font><font face="Helvetica"><span style="background-color: white;">.
Now is the time to make an impact and help us determine what future supply of grad student housing will look like. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica">If you have any questions about or issues with the survey, or if you have housing-related feedback/thoughts not addressed in the survey, pleas</font><font face="Helvetica">e email </font><a href="mailto:gradhousing-input@mit.edu" target="_blank"><font face="Helvetica">gradhousing-input@mit.edu</font></a><font face="Helvetica">.
Also, if your spouse or partner wishes to respond to the survey separately, they can email </font><a href="mailto:gradhousing-input@mit.edu" target="_blank"><font face="Helvetica">gradhousing-input@mit.edu</font></a><font face="Helvetica">, and we will generate
a link for them.</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica">Thank you!</font></div>
<font face="Helvetica">Sarah Goodman </font><font face="Helvetica"><br>
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<div><font><font face="Helvetica"><i>PS: This survey is a bit long (15-30min). Part of the reason for this is its use of a rigorous experimental design to figure out how different housing attributes (e.g. room size, rent, distance from MIT) are valued by students.
The experimental design algorithm may generate choice sets which will only consist of "bad" or unrealistic options for the purpose of data-gathering. In each case, make the choice you most prefer (or least dislike). You will have the chance in the follow-up
question to say if the one you chose is one you would actually be interested in or not. Furthermore, you will be able to provide additional information (such as single/family status) or give extra comments near the end of the survey.</i></font></font></div>
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