I am going to be class of 2023 and I want to ask how first-years pick their dorms. I probably won’t be able to attend Spring Open Campus and I’m not even sure if that is the time you choose dorms, but is there a way to request a certain dorm or a double rather than a triple?
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pinecone483: the answer to that question depends on your amount of free time and your focus on grades.
If you major in STEM, want to do summer research, and go to grad school, expect to spend most of your life studying.
If you major in something else and plan to get a job directly after graduation (nobody cares about your grades once you get your diploma), you will have loads of free time. In which case, the exchange bus will drop you near Harvard and MIT for free during the week and you can pick up the MBTA Red Line from Kendall.
Muad_dib: It’s not hard to be a Christian. The chapel is lovely.
It’s harder to be a Conservative. You will be expected to honor people’s chosen genders and pronouns, respect their sexual orientations, and self censor your speech to avoid upsetting people and making them feel “unsafe”. You will get to overhear lots of opinions about what horrible people Conservatives are. There is no real campus dialogue. If you are not on the academic left, there are folks on campus who would feel justified in shunning or harassing you. (Not all, but some.) Your best bet would be to get involved in The Freedom Project, which has a Libertarian flavor. They are always hiring interns.
My kid (applying this fall) wants to maximize the number of classes she sits in on when she visits. Is it physically possible to go from Founders 126 to Whitin 114 to Modular 302 to Green 330 in the 10 minutes between classes? She had a similar schedule of 4 classes back to back when she was at Smith, and loved it, but the classes she chose happened to all be in the same building.
@allyphoe That’ll be a real trek, especially to Whitin, but I’d encourage her to go for it. She can ask anyone for directions, and I doubt the professors will mind if she’s a couple minutes late.