April 10-11 Overnight Stays

<p>Remember that these overnights feature 400+ prospies, so you can't be very picky about hosts. I guess that works out to about 1/4 of students in housing hosting a prospie, and if you consider the fact that many rooms are doubles it really works out to be more than that (roommates often "share" a prospie since adding two people into a double room can get pretty crowded). They often need to beg people to host. Hosting can be fun, but it's also inconvenient in a number of ways. The hosts are told to give the prospie a place to sleep. It's nice to entertain them, but it's not part of the job description. It's the job of the prospie to go out and talk to people and have a good time. </p>

<p>Anyway, as I've said, I hated my overnight, and I'm very happy here as a student. There are certainly some people here who lack social skills, but there are also hundreds of incredibly cool people. (Some people even belong in both categories!)</p>

<p>My host was freaking awesome. I won't name names but he was in the Shoreland. Yes, the best dorm ever.</p>

<p>Yeah, I can think of a lot of singular hosts that could leave a bad impression on somebody (i.e. "Is everybody like here like them?) the saving grace (so I think) is that a visiting student gets exposure to lots and lots of students... even on a typical night in BJ, you'll have a lot of people in the lounge watching TV, people in the stairway arguing about Kant, people going to Bar Night.</p>

<p>But yeah, some hosts are going to be hands on and amazing and some are just going to host because they owe somebody a favor.</p>

<p>whats CTY?</p>

<p>CTY = Center for Talented Youth, a program run by Hopkins that has a big summer camp program. AKA Nerd Camp, but the attendees mostly love it.</p>

<p>They also offer courses online with personal grad student support.</p>