<p>Well, I've just discovered that the 2007 i3 videos are online. They're the same as the ones you've received or will receive (I have no idea when you get your information about deadlines and orientation and stuff) with you're big MIT package thing. Enjoy. If you do have it, I guess this can just be a place where you discuss it, otherwise the link below is where they all are.</p>
<p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/i3/%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/i3/</a></p>
<p>FYI: the Senior House video has a cute boy half naked.</p>
<p>And by "half", I mean "almost completely".</p>
<p>EDIT: Hahaha, the EC video has tep's propeller car... awesesome. :D</p>
<p>Entertaining, but it's hard for me to see how some of them are much help for picking a dorm.</p>
<p>They help give you a feel for the culture and the people who live in the dorm, if nothing else. And that's a prime feature of choosing the right place for you. You can go look at the rooms once you're there. :)</p>
<p>I understand that the culture of the dorms is important but I find it hard to extract the differences in culture from most of the videos; most of the dorms come off as pretty much the same, except for Bexley and East campus.</p>
<p>The i3's won't help everyone, but of the 13 freshmen on my floor I've heard from at least 5 or 6 the i3 videos were the reason they tried to get into a specific dorm, it was about the same percentage for my year as well, so clearly people do find these things helpful, even if that means one small thing catched your eye in a video and it convinces you to move in there.</p>
<p>I was talking about this today with one of the technicians in my lab (who's also MIT '06). We were lamenting that the videos are very straightforward to anyone who's at MIT, but to people who don't know what the dorms are like in the first place, it just looks like a lot of people partying. If it helps at all, the videos do look very different to all of us. :)</p>
<p>All of the MIT kids on CC are, of course, perfectly happy discussing the minutiae of dorm culture, if that's more helpful than the videos.</p>
<p>This year's Senior House video was way different from last years. </p>
<p>What does "Sport Death" mean?</p>
<p>only life can kill you.</p>
<p>Wow, I recognize so many people in the Random video from CPW! Oh, wait, maybe that's because I spent waaay too much time there... hmm...</p>
<p>That, and Random is quite tiny. :x</p>
<p>Is it just me, or is the Random Hall video on that website not working? I get the white screen with the quicktime "Q".</p>
<p>McCormick has a kitchen on every floor?? You know what MIT should have? An all male dorm with a kitchen on every floor.</p>
<p>Why would you want to live w/ all boys?</p>
<p>EC has a kitchen on every floor, as well as I think most dorms that don't have dining halls.</p>
<p>How ironic that you say that when over 50% of the male population at MIT join frats every year.</p>
<p>@XaserT
Random also has kitchens on every floor!
Also, I got the white screen for Random's video, too. I just found it on YouTube.</p>
<p>MacGregor has a kitchen in every suite. :-P</p>