In the followings, we try to answer some frequently asked questions which will be encounterned by the students or scholars when they live and work in USA in the first year.

• Q: How to look for the house around the Waltham?
  1. To get the information about the house.There are couples of sources: the student affair office (Usdan), the CSSA mailing list, the archieve of CSSA of MIT;
  2. The monthly rent at Waltham is from $200 to $500;
  3. The new students should choose the house close to Brandeis because walking in the winter may be painful.
• Q:How to buy the second hand car?
1. To get the inforamtion about the second car. You can ask your friends, or compare the advertisements The web site www.kbb.com provides the information about the market value of the used car, so it can be regarded as the benchmark fro your buying the car;
2. The imporatnt things are to check the year of the car, the milage of the car, the type of the car;
3. Go to the mechnics to ask him to check the car before you buy the car;
• Q:How to buy the car insurance?
  1. You'd better have the driver licence in China or the notarial certificate from the notary public office;
  2. To make some search on the internet before buying the insurance;
• Q:Where are the best Chinese restraunts in Boston?
1. Sichuan Guarden, which is Brookline, has very ingenuous Sichuan Food;
2. Chang Chunyuan, which is in Newton, has very good Morning Tea of Guang Dong style;
3. China town have many restraunts;
• Q:Where are the cinemas?
1. There is one cinema at the Moody street in Waltham;
2. The general cinema in Berlinton and Farmingham are the best two cinemas;
• Q:Where are the cool bars and dance club?
  1. The interesting bars are Prada (by the Boston Common), Oscars(by the south station) and the Good Life (in China town);
  2. The cool dance clubs are Avalon, Axis and Karma, all of which are on the lands down street in the downtown street;