Housing at MIT

[molliebatmit]

<p>Yes, you’re allowed to choose your roommate, although you don’t have to choose one.</p>

<p>Once you’re assigned a final dorm in the lottery process, you will go through some sort of “in-house” residence selection process – you’ll rank the floors/entries/sections of the dorm. At this point, you’re allowed to “staple” – write the name of another student whom you’ve selected to room with. If that student writes you also, you’ll be assigned as roommates by the Room Assignment Chair.</p>

<p>Here’s an overview of the room assignment process, for those who missed it –

@mollieb

Timeline:
CPW – Check out dorms, meet residents, eat free food.</p>

<p>Late May/early June – receive a booklet with descriptions of each dorm written by residents, and a CD with resident-made videos. Rank each dorm and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery.</p>

<p>July – Housing lottery runs. Freshmen are assigned a temporary room (almost always one of their top two choices, sometimes third choice).</p>

<p>August – Arrive at MIT and put stuff in temporary room. Don’t unpack. Run around and check out all the dorms and eat free food, decide if you want to enter the readjustment lottery to switch dorms. (You can stay in your temp dorm if you want.)</p>

<p>August, after that – Readjustment lottery is run. Final dorm assignments go out.</p>

<p>August, even after that – Each dorm does in-house rush, where students go around and meet people from all the floors/entries/whatever within the dorm and eat free food. Students rank floors and a lottery is run.</p>

<p>Now we’re probably into September – Final room assignments go out. Students (with help from upperclassman muscle) move into their final room assignments. Everybody gets psyched.

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<p>EDIT: Haha, beatcha. :P</p>