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[zammeran]

how can ifind what size my room is in baker? The site doesnt allow me into the floorplan. Im in room 220

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[tunape]

there's no easy way to do it. But the work-around is not too bad.

I'm not sure if you guys have athena accounts yet. I didn't during the summer, but I've seen some people have accounts nowadays.

anyhow, go to http://whereis.mit.edu and find your building. click on the building such that the floorplan pdfs links appear. Copy the link.

next, log into athena, and change into your www directory.

next, start up the text-based browser links by typing "links". press G to "go" and paste the link. links will ask you to download and save the pdf, do so.

finally, point your browser to http://web.mit.edu/USERNAME/www/FLOORPLAN.pdf where USERNAME is your username, and FLOORPLAN.pdf is the newly downloaded pdf.

[tunape]

oh yes, remember that these are only your temp housing assignment.

[cognative]

I used to be in Baker and was obsessed with keeping track of such things. Lucky for you I still have all the floor plans on my harddrive.

Room 220 is listed as 304 square feet. As I recall it's a front double.

[my_name_is_mike]

Wow, that sounds like such a hack. XD

Anyways, I thought that prefrosh generally got temporary rooms and then moved into their permanent ones during orientation. Maybe they changed that...

[zammeran]

But if i like my arrangment, I had Baker with double as top priority, can I keep it?

[mryn]

You can keep your dorm assignment. Whether you can keep that exact room depends on the dorm and how they run their rooming lottery.

[my_name_is_mike]

According to the housing page, Baker doesn't allow for room squatting so I'd say no (at least for orientation). However, I live at Next House and we do an in-house lottery. I can tell you that when you have a permanent room, they can't give it to someone else if you're still living in it.