<p>I'm coming to Caltech for 10 weeks in the summer to do an internship at JPL and it looks like I may be staying in the dorms!</p>
<p>My long term boyfriend will be coming to visit me during this time... is this sort of thing allowed in the dorms or can I get in trouble for this?</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>Only your roommate will care…or not</p>
<p>If you have a roommate, I would ask them first. Other than that, I doubt anyone will notice. As for what the “official policy” is, I have no idea.</p>
<p>The official policy allows visitors, I asked somebody (i forget who) before my mother stayed with me for parents weekend.</p>
<p>Sorry, I should have been more clear. I don’t know what policy is for summer students. I imagine it’s not much different, but I don’t know.</p>
<p>I doubt its any different. If you’re a student here, you should be treated like any other student here, with the rights and responsibilities thereof. I won’t swear that’s the policy, but any deviation from that would be dumb, and most of the policies here aren’t obviously dumb.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses everyone :D</p>
<p>Apparently, I’ll probably have my own room as there’s more space over summer, but I might send the housing folks a quick email to check that it’s ok, because like me my boyfriend would be coming aaall the way from England so I don’t want him getting kicked out or whatever :D</p>
<p>The only issue I can really think of is insurance but I’ll just ask super-nicely ;)</p>
<p>wow! lucky girl! Similar thing happened to me when I was in Boston over the summer. lol. Have fun at caltech!!! I would like to do the same, working in a lab at JPL over the summer. lol.</p>
<p>Cheers!! You should apply :D</p>
<p>Funnily enough I’m moving to Boston in September… I get around a bit :D</p>
<p>Lol, I already applied EA to Caltech, and was deferred, but we’ll see what happens this weekend for me.</p>
<p>I must admit that I have nooo idea how the US college system works, but best of luck!! :)</p>
<p>Some of the summer students get singles, some don’t. If you do get a single, whatever, no one cares who is in your room. I wouldn’t necessarily assume that you’ll get a single without talking to housing though.</p>