<p>Hi, I'm a rising high school senior going to a summer program at MIT for 6 weeks. They told us we will be staying in Simmon's Hall. What are the dorms there like?</p>
<p>-Are there closets?
-Do you know if they clean the bathroom in the summer? Should I bring cleaning supplies? Do they replace toilet paper?
-Is there carpet? Should I bring a rug?</p>
<p>How are the bathrooms?
What's it like living in the sponge/lego brick? How are the dorms? Are they clean? Are the homey? Are the beds comfy?</p>
<p>How's the food? We eat dinner there.</p>
<p>Do you like Simmon's Hall?</p>
<p>I'm just really curious since it will be my home for 6 weeks. If you know any other info or have anything to share feel free to comment. It will be very appreciated.</p>
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I don’t know but if there are not closets then there will probably be dressers or at least drawers of some sort.</p>
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Yes, no, and yes.</p>
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No. Yes if you want to lug it with you; there are also stores in Boston and Cambridge where you can buy a rug, among other things you might want to buy.</p>
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Bathroom-like. They have toilets and sinks and showers. Everything you could want from a bathroom, really. Some rooms have their own bathrooms or share with one other room. I don’t know if that’s the normal state of things.</p>
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It’s just one dorm.</p>
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I think Simmons is one of the cleaner dorms at MIT. So probably yes. My standards might be really low from living in Random.</p>
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Institute mattresses are not comfy. At least I have never thought so. You should bring a mattress pad (or two).</p>
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Pretty darn good, though I’ve only walked through the dining hall, and only once. :p</p>
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Yeah! It’s fancy and it’s strange. It feels like being inside a cement slug who is going about its own business while you just happen to be living inside of it. (I haven’t lived there, just visited.)</p>
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<p>Simmons is unusual having private bathrooms. Unless there’s been a recent change, cleaning staff don’t often clean your bathroom (because that would involve invading your room). That said, bathrooms also don’t get dirty as quickly because it’s in use by 1-3 people rather than, say, 7-15 
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<p>Followup now that I’ve talked to Simmons people: </p>
<p>They appear to only clean at the end of summer and during IAP (in January). </p>
<p>Ahhhh I’m so sorry Piper is totally right. The private bathrooms you’ll have to clean yourself.</p>