Cats at MIT

<p>I have a cat. I need to take him to college, as he has no where else to go. Can freshmen at MIT have cats, and if so in which dorms? Thank you.</p>

<p>Meow! Hopefully, I’d feel bad for the cat, else! Not an MIT student, just saw “cat” and had to comment.</p>

<p>Bexley, East Campus, Senior Haus, and Random Hall all have portions that allow cats. Cats have to be spayed / neutered and fully vaccinated in order to live in a dorm and your housing manager needs to be notified about your cat, as do your hallmates.</p>

<p>So yes, you can bring your cat to MIT even as a freshman, but you should really wait until you get here and check with your living group to make sure it’s ok with them in order to be polite.</p>

<p>That cat needs to be spaded or neutered, and he ain’t that. Come on, ask me how I know. Ask me.</p>

<p>Ok, how do you know?
(You’re wrong btw)</p>

<p>I agree about checking with your future living group mates before bringing your cat. I know some halls (EC’s 41W, for one) are really lax about who can have a cat and such, but other cats halls would rather not have the hall crawling with cats all the time, and cap the number of cats that can be on the hall on any given year to 3 or something.</p>

<p>yeah, 1E in EC is not taking any new cats next year, I don’t think.</p>

<p>Ahahaha, I just fell in love with Bexley.</p>

<p>Definitely have a plan if you can’t take your cat, and keep that plan until you have finalized your housing (meaning, after dorm rush, when you get your final assignment). While being able to live with your cat can certainly be part of your decision making, it’s quite limiting and you could end up hating all the places that allow cats :)</p>

<p>I hate to be the token breaker of rules here, but I have known people who had cats who did not live in a cat dorm. It’s a little more tricky, but it’s been done.</p>

<p>This might be a stupid question, albeit one that comes up at most colleges I’ve been to, but are there drug/pet raids in MIT dorms? And I have an energetic maine coon, it’s not like he could live peacefully in a closet. That’s the problem, I mean he literally has nowhere else to go, none of my family will take him.</p>

<p>In short, no. They have fire inspections, but, at least in my dorm (which is EC, probably one of the ones more likely to have people breaking fire code/other rules), if you close and lock your door when the fire inspectors come by, they don’t check your room. No one ever comes into your room to check for anything else.</p>

<p>In MacG they definitely go into your room even if it’s locked for fire inspections. But the inspection is hardly a thorough and intense process, and I doubt they even look in the closets.</p>

<p>Our cats are allowed to freely roam the hall, as I think is typical of most of EC. All of the cats in Senior Haus that I know can roam freely throughout the Haus (they have open stairwells). The Random Hall cats that I know are confined to the side of the hall that they’re on (Random’s layout is kind of strange). I’m not sure about Bexley.</p>

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And the fire inspection is announced in advance, giving you the opportunity to leave your rabbit with a friend in a different dorm for the day. (Not that I have ever done this.)</p>

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<p>I do know someone who got busted for drugs (in EC), years ago, but that was kind of an accident. Someone accidentally sent off the fire alarm right next to his room, in the middle of the night, and he evacuated with everyone else. He had been smoking in his room or something, and when the fire department arrived, they thought his room was the source of the (non-existent) fire, and went in to check it.</p>