Q: Finding a Residence

I am very interested to the neuroengineering, please keep me in touch about any seminar or news on this point. (However, I live out of the US, now and will arrive to Baltimore in the mid. of August.)

I wonder if you can help me find how it could be planned at present having a residence just for arrival to Baltimore and finding an appropriate place.

As for finding a residence: most of the graduate students live around Homewood campus, and take the shuttle into the medical school. Mt. Vernon is also a popular place, with shuttle stops to the med campus and to Homewood campus. Downtown (Fells Point, Canton, Inner Harbor, Federal Hill, Butcher's Hill) tends to be safe and has tons of restaurants/bars, though it's also busier, and you usually need a car to get to class. (Many people in Fells Point also walk or bike to JHMI.) Mt. Washington is super safe, but farther away. If you want to be in between Baltimore and DC, then look at Columbia or Ellicott City. When you're considering a place, look at the parking situation, whether it's got a washer/dryer in the unit, where it's located, the crime around the area, etc.

More info can be found here:
http://www.aiyah.org/hopkins_urls#Housing
and especially on the Off-Campus Housing website:
http://www.jhu.edu/~hds/offcampus/