<p>i don’t quite understand what you mean by nontraditional relationships in east campus?</p>
<p>but thanks for the all the replies about the painting and freedom with the dorms.</p>
<p>also, does anyone else have the answers to my questions on baker and bc?</p>
<p>The first time I met jessiehl in person, I made a comment about how 12 of the 32 residents in my entry in MacGregor were in (two-person, heterosexual) relationships with each other. Jessie replied that many of the residents of her floor in EC were in polyamorous relationships.</p>
<p>jessie was just joking, right? there’s no way…</p>
<p>Ah, back in the day, when things were more hardcore…also, how times change. Now we’re just all in monogamous relationships with each other / this one hall in Senior Haus :)</p>
<p>Jessie lived on the same hall that I currently live on. I’m actually moving into her old room for next year.</p>
<p>Anyway, if you’re going to judge people for their sexual preferences, you should probably stay away from the east side of campus. We will not welcome your insights. If you’re looking for easy girls, I hear most people go to BU.</p>
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Well, dear lord, she didn’t say all.</p>
<p>But I’m curious, what did you mean exactly by your original question (which dorms are the most sexually open)? I mean, to me, open means nonjudgmental, and welcoming of all types of consenting adult relationships. (Which isn’t to say, as I worry that I am implying, that west campus dorms are more judgmental. Just that their residents, on average, engage in a more limited subset of consenting adult relationships.)</p>
<p>I live in East Campus too (where k4r3n2 lives and jessiehl used to live), and I know many people in polyamorous relationships. It appears they’re just no longer concentrated on that hall anymore ^.^</p>
<p>Anyway, I agree with Karen and Mollie - the east side is not a place to be judgmental. However, lots of things surprised me when I first got to college. If you’re thrown off by this sort of thing but willing to keep an open mind, you won’t have a problem.</p>
<p>what do you guys think of NW35?</p>
<p>Well, here’s a post on NW35 from Facebook by someone who lives there. I dunno if this is against the rules or whatever, but if so Mollie can just delete it 
"I live in NW35 and it really isn’t that far away. I’ve tried walking to Simmons and Next and felt like the paths to those two were a lot longer and more agonizing than the one to NW35.</p>
<p>The culture…as Tim said, it’s very undefined, but in the year that just ended (the first year),35 of the undergrads were upperclassmen (non-frosh), and most of them came from Next or New with one or two from Baker, Bexley, BC, and MacGregor (ie West Campus) and only one person from EC. Most of the upperclassmen were already really good friends when they came in, so of course they chose to room together. They got to choose their rooms in the previous year, and nearly all of them chose to live on the second floor because the laundry room and Athena machines and printers are all on the second floor, and because the likelihood of homeless people from the homeless shelter across the street peeking into their windows was significantly lower if you live on anything but the first floor. As a result, all 15 freshmen were stuck on the first floor (there were some upperclassmen on there too). Our freshmen weren’t exactly the most social bunch and it was really hard to go between the two floors (the stairwell was locked with a magnet for a long long time…it’s kinda a long story), so there wasn’t much interaction between the upperclassmen and frosh unfortunately. To recap, you have one super social floor and one rather quiet floor. Also, maybe a third of the upperclassmen (mostly seniors) didn’t turn out to be interested in making a new dorm culture and were only interested in the nice brand new grad housing, so they rarely interacted with people (they had friends outside the dorm). To this day, I still have not seen the faces of some of our seniors. Eventually, the freshmen hall became a little bit more social. We didn’t all hang out together. Some were much more social than others and went to parties. The less social bunch stayed in and played board games (lots and lots and lots of Scrabble), some frisbee and soccer. I guess you could say that the first floor (full of frosh) was very conservative and the second floor was more outgoing. For the upcoming year, we’re trying to get the upperclassmen and frosh to interact more. “Luckily,” there are only eight freshmen spots (PANIC!), all segregated on the first floor again, but there will also be a lot more upperclassmen surrounding the freshmen. The culture is westie since all but one of the upperclassmen are from west campus. The one from EC did try to introduce some east elements to the frosh, but we all got busy as the term progressed…we’re trying again next year though!</p>
<p>As far as W1 goes, it is on indefinite hold, but that shouldn’t deter you from wanting to be in the Phoenix Group. It’s not about getting to eventually live in W1 (that would make you one of those people who are only interested in the facilities, and we don’t like those people); it’s about creating a culture for the people who will get to live there (we like people who fall into this category).</p>
<p>Also, we do live with grad students, but we don’t socialize with them since we’re all in one wing of the dorm.We’re technically not allowed to cross into each other’s territory. We see them walking around, doing their laundry, playing ping pong or whatever, but don’t expect to become friends with grad students unless you’re willing to go out of your way to befriend them (and they won’t get weirded out…).</p>
<p>(Sorry if my post seems very incoherent…I didn’t sleep and I’m hyped up on caffeine. And I probably forgot things.)"</p>
<p>so does it sounds like NW35 isn’t that good?</p>
<p>I think it really depends on what you want. Personally, it seems to me like it might be better for upperclassmen who already have friends and just want a really nice dorm.</p>
<p>where do most of the people who participated in the freshman leadership preorientation program live?</p>
<p>( Stereotype alert: ) Baker.</p>
<p>I’m styerotyping here as well but are the dorms’ personality GENERALLY listed in this order:
party dorms: baker/burton conner (or does BC differ by floors?)
artsy dorm: Bexley
quiet dorms: McCormick Hall, MacGregor House,Simmons Hall,
not quiet/not loud/in the middle: Next
quirky: East Campus, Random Hall, Senior House, </p>
<p>this is only what I’ve gathered through my limited experience, correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>I’d argue that EC, Random, and SH could be called ‘artsy’ as well.</p>
<p>I agree with la montagne. The quirkiness and artsyness kind of go together.</p>
<p>Last time I was there, I quoted my friend, who lives in senior haus, as saying “Bexley is for people who should not have been admitted to MIT”. Is this the general consensus around campus? I did some research on it; there is a dearth of info and what info there is tends to be creepy.</p>
<p>… I have never heard that. In what way does your friend think they should not have been admitted to MIT? (Lack of intelligence? Personality?)</p>
<p>Basically, that people who live there are antisocial, and try to provoke others, ect. I very much liked the building, however.</p>
<p>Heh, as opposed to the usual “brand” of antisocial students, Bexley antisocials are purposefully so. And most of them are jestful in their behavior. That the “antisocial” culture pervades Bexley is not an indication of what you can expect on an individual basis, either. The two people I know best from Bexley are both extremely friendly and light-hearted.</p>
<p>I imagine that, at some point in Bexley’s past, its residents simply decided making the dorm stand out by being stand-offish would be fun, and the rest is history.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know a few people from Bexley and they’re all very friendly and intelligent people. I have also never heard that “they’re the people who shouldn’t have been admitted to MIT” thing.</p>