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<p>I wrote that a while back. not very detailed but here.</p>
<p>1e- lively hall. throws a lot of parties, plays a lot of music, there are always kids wandering around the hall with guitars and singing at the top of their lungs. good cooks, too. has built a lot of electronic gadgets and dance floors and such :P just all in all the best hall in east campus. also there are cats.</p>
<p>2e- a lot quieter. cleaner. hall members are really tight-knit, a lot of everyone-all-together-now activities. huge projector screen in one of the lounges and kids always parked in front of it. doesn't build very much, throws a few parties (but they're generally pretty good), mostly keeps to themselves. no cats</p>
<p>3e- the pyromaniacs hall. breathe fire, spin fire, love fire. intense kind of place, always blowing something up or coming up with a new way to put the flame retardant carpets to use. hackers. generally the most popular hall on east campus (for prefrosh) and hard to get on to. I think kids are attracted to the energy. but there's a very VERY established culture already and all prefrosh can do is assimilate into it and I have heard complaints that it's impossible to study in your room. there are cats.</p>
<p>4e- one of the quietest halls. quieter than 2e. it's really quiet. well-located though in case you want some excitement but not all the time. there are really very rarely people in the halls, but the lounges are used quite often. they have cocoa parties where everyone gets together and drinks cocoa. they have a lot of eecs majors. they have a lot of hallcest. they have no cats. their residents are in bed by 12am.</p>
<p>5e- generally when you hear people say ec is filled with a bunch of social-deviants they're thinking of this place. 5e is a smoking hall and it smells like it. there's a screw everything attitude. there's a segment of the hall that is covered in black paint and lit by red lights. the hacking community is huge here. some hall members try to be dark and intimidating but really they're friendly people. prefrosh are generally scared of 5e so it is one of the least popular halls by hallrush but it's one of the most prominent in east campus. there are cats. lots of them. they're really pretty. hallcest galore.</p>
<p>1w- not much to say. they don't have enough of a hall culture and being half the size as all the other halls (~20 people) they're easy to overlook. especially when not a peep of noise eminates from it. </p>
<p>2w- builds a lot. is loud. is lively. over the years have accumulated lots of interesting new (mostly electronic) features. messy hall. fun-loving and social. I don't thnk they allow cats.</p>
<p>3w- I don't know very much about them except what other people say. I don't think I've ever been on hall for more than 15 seconds. But what I hear kind of places 3w as one of those quiet halls that don't really have a culture who really really wants to establish a culture of being social and cool. so they'll do a lot of that stuff. I hear stuff about hot guys? Not from the 3w-ers I've seen but maybe they're secret weapons.</p>
<p>4w- is nuts. off their rocker. because of the fact that they embrace the whole fresh-out-of-a-mental-institution vibe they will do a lot of nutty things. some of them will be really cool nutty things... some... not so cool. like very loud music all hours of the day/night. like a lot of people wandering around or breaking things or dropping things off of high places. like blacklight everything. but also like an entire wall covered in **** from over the years. keep an eye out for that one. just warnin' ya. prefrosh have made the unfortunate blunder of casually leaning on it. this is the other smoking hall in EC. so it smokes. I think there are cats as well.</p>
<p>5w- thought of as the jock hall. thought of as the people in east campus who sustain a west campus culture. they don't really socialize much with the rest of east campus. they kinda wish they lived in baker instead.</p>
<p>once you get into EC in the housing lottery, we'll hold a huge hall-rush that is just 10 huge parties going on at the same time and you get to do some party-hopping. it's really a lot of fun. hall-rush is great. that's when you get to explore the halls a bit more, too. </p>
<p>but the run-down I gave is basically the most honest you'll hear anywhere on the internet so do a little soul-searching. do you want your room to be a playpen or a workzone? do you like to sleep at night? what time would you like to sleep at night? (take into account the shift in schedule that occurs inevitably as you step into MIT) (**I went from 2am bedtime to 6-ish) do you see yourself doing a lot of hacking (tunnel-exploring, pranking, etc)? do you want your dorm to be a home or just a place to sleep? do you want your hallmates to be your best friends or just getting in the way of you using the bathroom? how well do you tolerate entirely different views from your own? are you afraid of noise (not 4w)? are you afraid of fire (not 3e)? are you epileptic (not 1e)? do you mind if your lounges smell like smoke? are you allergic to cats? </p>
<p>etc etc.</p>