<p>Since freshman classes are large, you will find a group of friends who share your classes. Many times, study groups are composed of people who live in your dorm, but more generally they’re just composed of your friends. My study group freshman year was mostly people from MacGregor, but there was also a guy from Baker, a guy from Simmons, and a guy from Next.</p>
<p>Since everybody works together, professors are fine with it. You will be expected to write up your own solution set (no photocopying somebody else’s pset, even if you worked together), and some classes require you to write the names of the people with whom you worked.</p>
<p>People everywhere work together on psets. If you try to do psets by yourself, you will often run into the significant roadblock that psets are hard.</p>
<p>As I have undoubtedly said elsewhere on this board and probably elsewhere on this thread, MacGregor residents are really just normal MIT students who happen to live in single rooms.</p>
<p>Yes, MacGregor students work together on psets. Yes, they socialize significantly outside their rooms. No, they do not lock themselves in their rooms all day. No, they are not uniformly antisocial and misanthropic. Stereotypes are only useful to a point.</p>