What are the dorms like?
They are a standard two bedroom (2 students per bedroom) apartments with full kitchens, living rooms, and a bathroom. They are located on campus. Housing for Freshman Academy will be from July 19 – August 30, 2008. Students are responsible for their own bedding, pots and pans, cooking utensils, and toiletries.
The dorms vary from traditional dorm style, suite style, to apartment living. There can be six people living in an apartment, or someone can be in a single room. Each dorm is secured by a card access system and all have similar amenities. For more information, please visit http://housing.depaul.edu.
MIT is unique compared to other colleges in that each of its dorms has a different personality. Each dorm building has different architecture, furniture, and stereotypes associated with it. MIT has an all-girls dorm, an oddly shaped “waffle building”, a dorm where explosions are considered the norm, a “party” dorm, and more. So in short, there are a lot of varieties. I am not going to go into the stereotypes of each dorm and how I feel about them, because each dorm fits different personalities, and a dorm that I don’t like is “home sweet home” for another person. When you come to MIT that is the time to visit the dorms and find out which one is the best for you. There is a general list about which dorm has singles, doubles, quads, smoking, cafeterias, etc at this website: http://web.mit.edu/cmi/ue/residences/dorm-details.html. Freshmen have plenty of time to explore the dormitories during summer and orientation before they have to put down their preferences.
