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Admissions officers hoisted box after box of decision letters—2,110 acceptances and over 28,000 rejections and waitlist letters—into the back of a waiting mail truck yesterday, then celebrated the completion of this year’s first round of decisions...
...chain of about 30 admissions officers, staff, and students who work in the office passed the boxes of letters from the basement of the Cronkhite Center into the mail truck just before noon yesterday...
...assumption that “Zane” is a made-up nickname for myself is false. Check my birth certificate. But if you read my e-mail signature, you’ll notice that “Zane” is preceded by a mysterious letter “H.” Naturally, the next question is: “What is your first name...
...entire length of my HUID. To speak it out loud is clumsy enough that I have taken to whipping out said ID so that inquisitors can see the absurdity for themselves. Ever since coming to Harvard, its entirety has been plastered on every class list and official e-mail, so I’ve long since given up on maintaining it as my Deepest Darkest Secret...
...course, there’s gender confusion. While Zane may never crack the top 1,000 baby names for girls, it was number 235 for boys in 2008. Naturally, my frequent e-mail communication with non-acquaintances has led to numerous misunderstandings and the incorrect assumption that my cells are sporting a Y chromosome. Last spring, frustrated, I wrote to “Dear Abby” asking if there was a polite way to correct this mistake, but I ended up foregoing her advice to sign all my e-mails with...