Middlebury Freshmen Thankful for Constant E-mails From First-Year Senators, New Survey Finds

On Monday, the SGA released results from a closed-group survey, taken of students whose Microsoft Outlook data shows they have opened every e-mail addressed to the first-years mailing list.

Of the 3 students whose results were collected, 67% of the respondents rated their experience with the First-Year Senators e-mails to be positive.

In the free-response section of the survey, one anonymous student remarked: “Having my phone go off in the middle of class can be very awkward, but I breathe a sigh of relief when I see it’s an informative e-mail from my first-year senator.”

“Just seeing that message start off with ‘Haihaihai’ or ‘Haiii y’all’ really gets rid of the embarrassment that comes with my phone beeping while my professor is speaking.”

Another student, who also chose to remain anonymous, said they would have forgotten about the First-Year Dinner but they are grateful that their Senator sent four reminder e-mails in the span of 15 minutes.

“It’s really refreshing; some might find it annoying but how could you? Our senator wrote ‘Big Sorry!’ in one of the e-mails so clearly, he didn’t mean any harm. If anything, we all need to be given that extra push sometimes.”