[GSC-HCA-Offcampus] Help us shape the future of Graduate Student Housing!

[GSC President Sarah Goodman]

*_tl;dr :_ Please respond to the MIT Graduate Housing Needs Survey 
<https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_820cqAGqSrYkPPL> 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! *


Dear graduate student,

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.

/We need to hear from all graduate students, whether living on or off 
campus./ Please let us know your preferences by responding to the *MIT 
Graduate Housing Needs Survey <http://bit.ly/gradhousing17> by Thursday, 
October 5th *and*_help shape MIT's commitment for more graduate student 
housing within the next few weeks._*

*The survey will be offering $100 and $50 prizes, with the odds of 
winning increasing as participation goes up* (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!


It is /extremely important /that we receive as many responses as 
possible, both for data purposes and /to show that graduate students 
care about housing/. Now is the time to make an impact and help us 
determine what future supply of grad student housing will look like.


If you have any questions about or issues with the survey, or if you 
have housing-related feedback/thoughts not addressed in the survey, 
please email gradhousing-input at mit.edu.  Also, if your spouse or partner 
wishes to respond to the survey separately, they can email 
gradhousing-input at mit.edu, and we will generate a link for them.


Thank you!

Sarah Goodman
GSC President

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/PS: This survey is a bit long (15-30min). Part of the reason for this 
is its use of a rigorous an 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 they 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./

-- 
Sarah Goodman
President, Graduate Student Council
PhD Candidate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology