Aren’t you class of 2021? How do you know what the residents were or were not doing? Were you privy to meetings between students and administration?
I’m not 2021. I graduated a long time ago and am a big donor with close ties to MIT. Senior House residents weren’t making use of resources being offered to help them get their act together. Don’t listen to anyone who claims that this fallout is the fault of the administration.
@brassratter So why did you say you got a tube this past March? And what of the questions about the dorms?
I took over my child’s account instead of creating a new one.
I posted this article and viewpoint about Senior House in a separate post, and reposting it here. It shocked me as a 1980s alumni, I was always fond of Senior House but it may have changed. I lived in Baker House which is as social as ever and lots of “front doubles” with views of the Charles. Baker House is closer in to academic buildings and labs, and offers a dining hall.
Simmons had a lack of social culture four years ago, according to an MIT senior who I mentored who moved after one year at Simmons Hall to Connor-Burton. She was lonely in Simmons, but things change rapidly at MIT. Stay tuned. You can always change dorms if you want to, MIT offers a flexible housing system.
Sorry, Coloradomama. I can’t agree with you about things changing rapidly at MIT. Simmons is the newest dorm so its culture hasn’t been established yet. For every other dorm, the culture is very stable.
According to my class of 2020 DD the saying "more windows than friends " is true at the part that Simmons has a great number of windows. She said that they also have a great community other there. She lives at Burton Conner and said if she had to do it all over again she would pick Simmons as a freshman.
@brassratter. There are a number of new dorms and graduate dorms at MIT. Ashdown House was moved to Albany Street for Grad students. Bexley Hall was demolished. Senior House is being dismantled and reformed with a “new culture”. East Campus had the five student drug arrests in 1999 and changed its drug culture to a more fun loving culture and many MIT fraternities like Lambda Chi Alpha are GONE, due to drug, sexual assault etc. MIT housing has changed for the better for sure. ZBT fraternity gave up its drug invested aparments in Brookline and now have a nerdy friendly culture in that fraternity without any hazing. MIT is somewhat less druggy and more fun, aside from Senior House which is getting a new start. Maseeh Hall is new, in that aging hotel that looked like a haunted house on the corner of MassAve and Mem Drive, and I would say thats dorm culture is a moving target too, it was pretty boring and I am sure its getting spicer as the druggy Senior House kiddos move in there. Thats my take on MIT housing for better or worse.
Here is the new Pilot 2021 at MIT. It sounds refreshing and healthy and fun. Not at all like the Senior House I remember.
https://studentlife.mit.edu/housing/undergraduate-housing/residence-halls/pilot-2021-senior-house
I think MIT is making a huge effort clean up the drug culture and its a great thing for students.
Dorm culture is stable. I’m referring to undergrad dorms, not grad dorms or fraternities. Students entering now can ask for dorm advice from anyone who graduated in the last 40 years and get valid input except for Maseeh and Simmons.
Post #24 is the first time I’ve heard anyone say anything that wasn’t overwhelmingly positive about Simmons, which is widely known for being friendly.
I’m glad we agree that Pilot 2021 is a great initiative.
Where did everyone end up?