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Why won't MIT release the pairings? It's such a great time now for kids to meet, to talk, etc.
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Maybe it's because the "assigned roommate" is a *temporary* roommate. He's only going to be your son's roommate for the first few days (though, if they like living with each other, end up in the same dorm, and have similar housing tastes, they might be able to do what my frosh roommate and I did at East Campus and become real roommates in the final assignments). Releasing the pairings and otherwise treating the situation like a permanent roommate situation undermines the whole idea that your temp room *is not permanent*.
If the incoming frosh get nothing else out of this thread, I want them to get the whole temporary thing. The series of posts above mine suggest that other current students and alums agree with me.
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I might add, perhaps, that the quickest way to not get assigned to the room you're temped in is to go around asking lots of upperclassmen how you can maneuver to stay in your temp room. Room Assignment Chairs (who are students) and rush chairs and other people like that tend not to be sympathetic to freshman laziness.
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Yes yes yes yes yes. Hey guys, the upperclassmen, including the dorms' Room Assignment Chairs, do pay attention to your behavior during dorm rush (REX). Especially if you stand out by being obnoxious. And as you can see from some of these posts (particularly Laura's), people really frown on frosh not taking dorm rush seriously (because if they don't, admins may decide that there's no longer any need for it - they have threatened such in the past).
It's fine if you end up in the same hall/entry/whatever of the same dorm where you were temped - sometimes people really ARE in the right place to start - as long as you took rush seriously.