<p>Thank You!! :)</p>
<p>Could you post simmons fourth floor, please?!</p>
<p>You can get across the need to be on campus if you dial into athena and just add the directory that has the documents on them.</p>
<p>read the post (I didn't) - the easiest way is to use links. Read up on using putty or something to dial into athena. If the command 'links' doesn't work, the command 'help links' will open up the browser also.</p>
<p>when is in-house rush? Do all the dorms have it simultaneously? Students who go through the adjustment lottery won't know where they will be living until Wed the 31st, which is also when the in-house lottery occurs, so in-house rush must happen before that. It looks like students who do not like where they are temped will be running around on Sat and Sun figuring out what dorms to list in the adjustment lottery. Will there be time for them to figure out what their floor or room preferences are within the dorm?</p>
<p>I believe in-house rush occurs on the same night for all dorms.</p>
<p>At any rate, it won't happen until after the adjustment lottery is run. Last year the adjustment lottery results came out on a Friday, in-house was Saturday night, and everybody found out their permanent assignments/moved Sunday morning. (From the paltry info I can find at the moment, it looks like the adjustment lottery closes Tuesday and in-house will be Wednesday night. I assume everybody will move on Thursday morning. No problems, eh?)</p>
<p>In-house is run by dorm residents, who are happy to pull an all-nighter in the name of dorm harmony -- there's not the delay seen in the other lotteries, which are run by Housing staff on a salary and a sleep schedule and such.</p>
<p>At least for the dorms with which I'm familiar, in-house is a structured process -- freshmen are broken up into groups of (freshmen in house)/(# of living groups in house), and have some set time to make an impression on upperclassmen in the floor/entry/whatever, and get their impressions in turn. It's a scheduled sort of thing, and everyone has to participate.</p>
<p>this is a little off topic...and i feel retarded for asking this...</p>
<p>but how do you login to athena?</p>
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freshmen are broken up into groups of (freshmen in house)/(# of living groups in house), and have some set time to make an impression on upperclassmen in the floor/entry/whatever
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<p>do the upperclassmen get to choose which freshmen they want on their floor/entry/whatever, or is it just freshmen making preferences? </p>
<p>Also, what percentage of upperclassmen are around to interact with freshmen during REX and in-house rush? It looks like it all takes place a week before they would otherwise have to be on campus to register.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how it is in other dorms, but in MacGregor, entry preferences are taken into account, although freshman preferences are the dominant factor -- I think it's 75/25. Freshmen rank the entries 1-9, and entries get to say yes/no/indifferent about each freshman, and all that gets put into an algorithm which is designed to "maximize house happiness".</p>
<p>You're right that most upperclassmen aren't on campus. Each dorm is allowed to have about 10% of its residents return early to help with rush events, plus anybody who stayed in MIT housing over the summer (about 20% of Macgregor stayed this summer, not sure if that's typical of all the dorms). So not everybody's here, but it's not as if there's one lone person in each dorm -- the dorm government will generally do a quick head-count of the early returns (who sign up in June) and make sure there are a few people who will be back for each floor/entry.</p>
<p>And for portlander --</p>
<p><a href="http://athena.dialup.mit.edu/ssh.html%5B/url%5D">http://athena.dialup.mit.edu/ssh.html</a></p>
<p>or download SecureCRT from <a href="http://web.mit.edu/software/%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/software/</a></p>
<p>wow..this is really pretty silly, I mean, why does MIT restrict floorplans to MIT only addresses? surely it'd make sense to offer them to all MIT addresses AND people with valid certificates...</p>
<p>well, to rectify this, I've made this[/url</a>] (<a href="https://mit.edu/varenc/www/floorplans.mit.edu/pdfs/%5B/url%5D">https://mit.edu/varenc/www/floorplans.mit.edu/pdfs/</a>)
you MUST have valid MIT certificates to view this page. And make sures its HTTPS, not HTTP. Someone should post it on that LJ so that so many people don't have to grapple with athena...not that she isn't wonderful of course. =)</p>
<p>Hope it saves you guys some time!</p>
<p>awesome! thanks chris!</p>
<p>hrm i got senior house - anyone got that too?</p>
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<p>I know of a couple of people who did. How did you rank Senior House?</p>
<p>I also got into Senior House. By the way, does anybody know how to find out who our roommates are ?</p>
<p>Andrei - where did you rank Senior House?</p>
<p>I'm not aware of any way to find out who your roommate is. Remember, it's only for a few days anyway. Either you or the temporary roommate may decide to switch dorms. Even if you stay in Senior House, you'll both probably get new roommates in the in-house lottery.</p>
<p>I ranked Senior House 2nd.</p>
<p>Will there be some additional "in-house" lottery ? Because i was already assigned a room.</p>
<p>Andrei - after the adjustment lottery, when everyone knows which dorm they will be living in, there will be some system to assign rooms/roommates within the house. Apparently it varies somewhat from house to house how they do that, but it's some sort of lottery. Some might just have freshmen pick a number out of a hat for the order in which they get to choose rooms. Look at Molliebat's post above for MacGregor:
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I'm not sure how it is in other dorms, but in MacGregor, entry preferences are taken into account, although freshman preferences are the dominant factor -- I think it's 75/25. Freshmen rank the entries 1-9, and entries get to say yes/no/indifferent about each freshman, and all that gets put into an algorithm which is designed to "maximize house happiness".
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<p>East Campus BABY</p>
<p>tetazoooooo</p>
<p>(#1 #1 #1)</p>
<p>Thought this might be relevant to the whole residence selection thing --</p>