<p>Heh. "Deal with" RBA. I like your word choice, Mollie.</p>
<p>As a supplement to the i3 videos, I finally blogged</a> about Burton Conner!</p>
<p>Lots of other bloggers are finally catching up to Mollie's work ethic. I believe so far we have entries for MacGregor, Burton Conner, Random, Next, and Baker. Check out the MyMIT portal to find all these.</p>
<p>This is great! I have seen the blog entries. The bad thing is that I still haven't recieved the i3 videos (no NBM for me yet).... not cool, no e-mail account, no access to WebSIS, no nothing!
Anyways, I hope to receive it this week.</p>
<p>The blog entries are helpful, although everyone seems to say only good things about their own dorms. Yeah, and I didn't find the i3 videos to be helpful at all. This is kind of difficult. There should be a sorting hat.</p>
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Haha, welcome to rush. To be honest, it's difficult to get out the bad things about places, not just on the blogs but in general.</p>
<p>This is true for a few reasons:
1. Most people are happy with their living group, and sometimes have trouble understanding why on earth anyone would want to live anywhere else.
2. We're not supposed to badmouth other dorms.
3. Since nobody else says anything bad about their living groups, you can't be the one person who's like "oh, here's the con list" because then everyone will think that you really hate your living group and it must be hell on earth, because why else would you say bad things about it?
4. It can be hard to see the bad in your own living group if you genuinely like it and are happy there.</p>
<p>I've heard that the verious halls in EC can differ vastly in terms of culture. Is there some brief explanation someone could provide for the halls? I'm concerned that I might not get into the dorm of my choice if I select the wrong hall before REX. As I understand it, it is easier to stay in the same hall if you're placed there initially after the first lottery. Any EC bloggers or CCers who can help on this front?</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>zking786, pebbles provided her version of a hall-by-hall run-down of EC in post #28 on page 2 of this very thread.</p>
<p>I suspect that's why she frowned above.</p>
<p>I wish they would post the i3 videos online for us curious upperclassmen</p>
<p>the only dorm from whom I could find a posted video was east campus..
<a href="http://ec.mit.edu/videos/ec-i3-2006.mov%5B/url%5D">http://ec.mit.edu/videos/ec-i3-2006.mov</a> (quicktime format) or <a href="http://ec.mit.edu/videos/ec-i3-2006.avi%5B/url%5D">http://ec.mit.edu/videos/ec-i3-2006.avi</a> (avi)
When they do come out.. Simmons' is amusing in a lots-of-geeky references way. McCormick's features an interesting use of the song "Milkshake". Bexley was a repeat..</p>
<p>Right, so which dorms are relatively quiet?</p>
<p>McCormick, when I was there seem relatively quiet. Which I personally liked.
But does anyone have a run down of the floors of McCormick?</p>
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Do you get to pick a hall in the initial lottery? I know that for many dorms you don't pick a hall; the housing chair just puts you in a room in the dorm, since it's only a temp room.</p>
<p>As for curious upperclassmen seeing the i3 videos, the [url=<a href="http://web.mit.edu/i3%5Dwebsite%5B/url">http://web.mit.edu/i3]website[/url</a>] claims they will be up "soon". Although who knows what that means.</p>
<p>Nah, your temp hall doesn't matter. You don't pick a floor until you're permenantly assigned to a dorm anyway.</p>
<p>Seriously guys, relax. It's cool that you're all so excited about this, but that's what REX is for. It's not like you need to know the exact room you want to live in before you even get to campus.</p>
<p>I have changed my own mind about housing preferences so many times it's ridiculous. I'm still changing my opinions of the different living groups. So don't worry about it so much.</p>
<p>And Aislynn, as far as I know, the floors of McCormick aren't much different. I don't think they do floor rush the way EC/BC/MacGregor do. Someone who knows better than me please correct me if I'm wrong!</p>
<p>so the four dorms i'm definitely considering are baker, bc, macgregor, and mccormick. i'm pretty big on the being close to campus thing and i do like to be able to balance socialness and privacy. can somebody give me the run down on all four?</p>
<p>I blatantly stereotyped the dorms on the first page of this</a> thread, and nobody has really argued much with my stereotyping, so I'm guessing it's at least reasonable.</p>
<p>So I know that if you get initially put in Next over the summer you can't switch out... but is it possible to switch in after REX if you don't get put in initially?</p>
<p>I can't find that info on the RBA website, so the best choice might be to email the ARC. I suspect that you probably can't switch in, since nobody's switching out and there probably wouldn't be spots.</p>
<p>Ugh, I hate the RBA program. So antithetical to the entire idea of rush.</p>
<p>Aislynn:</p>
<p>McCormick has three main sections: West Tower, East Tower, and the Annex.</p>
<p>Each floor in West Tower has a mix of singles and doubles/triples. The singles are the second largest singles in the dorm, and are generally populated with upperclassmen and a few lucky sophomores. Each floor shares two large bathrooms and a kitchen. West Tower is considered the more social of the two towers.</p>
<p>East tower is made up of all singles in a suite arrangement. There are two suites per floor and each suite has 8-10 rooms. Each suite shares a bathroom and kitchen. East Tower is the quieter tower because of the layout and all single rooms.</p>
<p>The annex is a recent addition to the dorm. There used to be a house located next to McCormick that was remodeled in 1994 into additional rooms for McCormick. It is a three story house with two singles and a few doubles and triples. The entire house shares a kitchen on the first floor. I lived in the annex this past year and found that it was very social and most of us ended up feeling like we were a family.</p>
<p>Of course these are only the general stereotypes of each living area; a lot of it depends on the people you end up living with.</p>
<p>Also, just so you know, McCormick doesn't do floor rush like the other dorms. When you enter the housing lottery, you will fill out a survey about your living habits and what type of room you would like. The housing chairs will use that information to assign rooms. Freshman generally end up in west tower doubles/triples, east tower singles, and in the annex. The room the housing chair assigns you is your permanent room. If you aren't happy with your room, there are multiple readjustment lotteries throughout the term, most notably the reg day lottery.</p>
<p>If you have any more questions about McCormick, I'd be happy to answer.</p>
<p>Thank you sidssana ^_^
Just out of curiosity are McCormick residents mainly Course 7 and/or 9 major or is it a mixture?</p>
<p>Found this in the Best Dorms thread. </p>
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