Bexley Housing Procedures, etc.
Suggestions for surviving the Bexley Housing process.
Please read MIT's info and this site before you go to the Housing Chairs with your question.
Your Housing Chairs are: Marissa Lee, Erich Mueller, & Julia Day. (bex-triumvirate@mit.edu)
Frequently Annoying Questions:
Blah Blah Blah?
It is probably answered somewhere on this page...read on before you even think about asking a housing chair a question answered on this site.
Can my friend from [any other dorm] get a will or live with me?
No. IF they get into Bexley, then they will be placed at the discretion of the Housing Chairs. They have no initial rights to anything. Transfers go into freshman doubles unless there are special circumstances.
Can I for sure stay in my freshman double?
Nope! People in freshman doubles have no squatting rights whatsoever. Ha.
I don't know to whom I should will my room. What should I do?
I don't care. If you don't will it to anybody then the housing chairs will assign someone to that room at their discretion.
But I want someone else to decide who gets my room...can I do that?
No. If you don't will it to anybody then the housing chairs will assign someone to that room at their discretion. Let me make this clear - you cannot give someone else the power to will your room.
Where's a cool place to live?
We will not tell you this.
What singles or studio doubles are opening up?
We will not tell you this.
Can [any of the housing chairs] do this one thing for me? Pretty please? Is there, um, a favor I can do in return?
No. Favors are appreciated and occasionally expected, but mostly useless.
Do I have to involve the housing chairs in room trading or bartering?
No. Just let us know where you end up.
What is your favorite dessert?
Dan likes brownies or grape pies. Julia likes big chocolate cakes. Marissa likes chocolate chip cookies.
Do I have to?
Yes.
Really?
Yes.
Will it hurt?
Yes.
Incoming Freshman (Fall Term):
Welcome to Bexley, where you're free to become what we already are.
First off, you should know that you have about a 2% chance of living in the room that you are currently temped in. Freshman doubles do not have squatting rights. Ha.
Second, You will not get a single, or a studio double - you will get another freshman double.
Least but not last, Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe had sex before you were born - but that does not make them your parents.
Last but not least, Jon Nolan (jnolan@) is your house manager.
If you are new to Bexxxley - this can help you.
Additionally, it is highly recommended, but optional, to fill out the surveys available at Besk to win the favor of hatin' upperclassman.
Incoming Transfers:
You are probably in a freshman double. You might not like your roommate because they smoke or have a cat or hate you. Congratulations. You will stay there until the overburdened proletariat rises in its full glory against the gluttonous bourgeoisie.....or someone else leaves a room and wills it to you...lucky bastard. You might also trade with someone in Bexley, or the housing chairs move you into a different room at the end of the semester.
Summer Residents:
If you already have lived in Bexley, you already know what you need to know. If you are from another dorm, you'll probably ask the following annoying questions (FAQs):
Where do I pick up my keys?
The front desk. Duh.
What's my roomming assignment/Do I have a roommate?
The summer housing chairs email that information out to everyone once the roomming assignments are made.
When can I move my stuff in for the summer?
No one has to vacate their room until the move-out date after finals week. If you really need to jump the gun, talk to the people in your room and figure out early moving details with them, not a housing chair.
Why didn't I get a single for the summer?
The numbers have actually been crunched on this one to help explain why so many of you are dissapointed. With a random roomming assignment, your odds of scoring a single in Bexley are at most 22.5%. If you add in the fact that a handful of residents already have "rights" to a single due to the fact that they will be living in that room in the fall, your odds are actually around 16%. The only way to change these odds is to ask a housing chair for a single, in which case your odds will approach 0%, fool.
The Willing Process:
So you want the skinny on how to properly "service" and "cajole" the upperclassmen to get a sweet new room? Remember to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge. And bribing the upperclassman never hurt either.
When someone graduates or transfers out of Bexley (or otherwise vacates a rooming spot) there are 3 possibilities:
-It has been willed to someone else living in Bexley and that person is going to live there now.
-It is a spot in a studio double and the roommate is going to "pull in" their desired new roommate from within Bexley.
-The spot was not willed when vacated and the housing chairs will put someone in the room such that the resulting social conditions amuse them the most...or they've been bribed with a sensual massage or baked goods (cookies, brownies, cake, etc...).
To Get A Will, the person leaving the room has to want to give their room to you, and much more importantly, you both need to fill out a will form [click on that!] and turn it in to your designated Housing Chair. It is a PDF that you must print out, fill out, sign, get the willer to sign and hand (in person) to your designated Housing Chair to sign. That's a lot of things, so if you don't understand any of them, read it again slowly.
To Reiterate, in order to live in that amazing single or studio double your heart aches to have - you must get it willed to you by the resident leaving that spot. You must get all the appropriate signatures and you must turn the will in to your designated Housing Chair on time. Late wills will be ignored. Wills without proper signatures will be ignored. If multiple wills to the same room are turned in, they will all most likely be ignored. If one person has multiple wills to the multiple rooms, the Housing Chairs will probably ask him/her which room he/she want and assign someone else (at their discretion) to the other room(s).
Your Designated Housing Chair: is pretty easy to figure out. I might say it in a complicated way anyway. You turn our signed wills into the Housing Chair in your grade (graduating class). For those who hit every branch of the stupid tree when they fell out and wandered into MIT, that means those who will be Seniors or Super-seniors next fall turn their wills into Marissa Lee. Those about to become Juniors will turn them into ???. The little Sophomores will hand in their wills to Julia Day. Don't mess it up.
Closing Threats & Past Housing Chairs:
If you ask questions that are clearly answered in the text above, ask the housing chairs "which rooms are opening?" or try to screw over other people, or mess with the system, or basically do anything wrong/bad/stupid you will face the possibility of getting an undesirable room and hopefully it will warrant me sending you to discuss things with the old Housing Chair and founder of the current system, Mr. Jack Holloway, who is as snuggley-wuggley as a cactus.
Other housing chairs of years past have included Dan Schultz - an adventurous archeologist, Nick Lacasse, who founded a Detroit gang, Sean Whaley, who drools on the couch when he plays X-men too long, Phil Rha, who could ignore anything special about you better than Hitler could, Aaron Iba, who was willing to hijack your screename faster than you could say "matzah ball!" to get the job done - if the job involved making money, and Calvrett Aninye, who wasn't as useless as a "craphole "right there," but close.
