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I'm an only child and I know living in a double-sized room with two other people would make us all miserable... Is there any way to avoid it?
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<p>You're probably more adaptable than you think you are, but if the idea really bothers you, most dorms, when they have in-house (hall, or entry, or floor) rush, allow you to express preferences for number of people in your room. If your temp room is a triple, don't freak out...it's a temp, you'll only be there a few days.</p>
<p>Laura: I gather that you can get out of Next second term if you pitch a really huge fit and/or get various people on your side - for instance, if you're seeing a counseling dean, or a therapist at MIT Medical, and could get them to recommend that you be allowed to switch dorms for whatever valid reason, you'd stand a better chance.</p>
<p>azngirl, that's a small single; actually it might be larger than the very smallest coffins, now that I think about it... still, if you're lucky you'll change to a double in the readjustment lottery
(orbis, yours is a triple)</p>
does anyone know which dorms are the most popular ones? (e.g. harder to move into during the relocation lottery)
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It changes every year due to the way the readjustment lottery works -- if you enter with Dorm Z as your first/only choice, that frees up a spot in your temp Dorm X for somebody else to move in, but if nobody in Dorm Z enters the lottery, you don't move, so your spot doesn't open up. If a dorm has a bad rush year, or if another dorm has a particularly successful one, the readjustment results can change quite a bit.</p>
<p>Stats from the past several years are probably findable in the Tech.</p>
<p>that's a coffin on the other side (the better side) than azngirl's single
it's not bad to have a single during orientation (I did), but I don't recommend going for single in the inhouse lottery, freshmen get coffins, and they suck - 612 is probably something like 110 sq ft. 6th floor has a nice view though</p>
<p>For the two Baker residents who just posted, 119 is a front double (very nice room). 342 is a small single, so no roommates for you during temp week.</p>
<p>While I like NH3 fine and could live there OK, I prefer MacGregor even more, and I <em>really</em> love Random. In fact, the unique culture and community I found at Random, coupled with the 75% first-choice-rate quoted to me were pretty much the reason I elected to go to MIT. Now I understood I took a risk, and I accept that. What I'm wondering is, how are my chances for switching into Random, MacGregor, or Simmons? Is there any way to augment my chances? If I can find someone in one of those dorms that prefers NH, can I arrange a switch with them?</p>
<p>fyi - REX is the time to explore all the dorms. don't like the people you're living near? meet others in your dorm. don't like many people at all in your temp dorm? get out and FIND one you like - you'll find at least one that fits you. promise. so take advantage of that time!</p>
<p>well... except for those of you stuck in mcc or next. heh.</p>
<p>and as for the 'most popular' dorms? i don't know the specifics, but i feel like last year baker and ec were the most in-demand dorms. makes sense, right? or at least it will. =)</p>
<p>for orbis, azngirl and all the other baker freshies...</p>
<p>there are very few doubles and decent-sized singles open. reason being, all the upperclassmen took the good singles and all the doubles are huge. cheer up - the larger rooms aren't as bad as they sound at first. i spent my entire freshman year in a quad, after having my own room my entire life, and had a blast.</p>
<p>if your room ends in -11, -06, or -46, you've got a quad. if it ends in -01, it's a triple. anything (i think) between -15 and -20, you're in a (ridiculously nice) river-front double.</p>
<p>oh and for kcastelle - river phoenix means "the better side" as in, the west side of baker as opposed to the east side. the west has all the doubles/triples/quads, meaning it's louder and more social. the east... has all singles and one quad - more upperclassmen, more studying, more silence. you get the picture.</p>
<p>sran, you can't just arrange a switch with somebody. Various people in positions of authority already have mild heart attacks with all the readjustment lotterying and moving about... if people started privately arranging room switches, nobody would know where anybody was, and when parents started calling up campus police to find their darling babies at 1 AM, the CPs wouldn't know where to look.</p>
<p>Anyway, for everybody, remember that this is only your temporary room. Don't get too attached to it. I'm not sure if this is how it works in other dorms, but in MacGregor, you <em>will</em> be switching rooms, even if you choose to stay in the same entry as the one you were temped in. Get out and explore during rush, and eat lots of free food and talk to people. Enter the readjustment lottery. Readjust. Everything will work out just fine.</p>
<p>"Everything will work out just fine."
..except in those cases where it Doesn't. ahahaha
I am the voice of paranoia (...)</p>
<p>EDIT: mollie's looking at me funny... so yah I switched into Baker from New House (which I stupidly ranked above 5) in the readjustment lottery. Everything will work out just fine ... just fine ... just fine ... just fine ... <a href="trailing%20off">i</a>* ...</p>