<p>oh..i would like to know this as well.</p>
<p>ec does, random and senior haus don't. i don't think i've been in rooms in other dorms for more than a few minutes. anyone else?</p>
<p>MacGregor doesn't, Simmons doesn't, Baker does. McCormick may? My memory escapes me.</p>
<p>Next House doesn't</p>
<p>Why do people want to know about sinks in the room anyway? Perplexing.</p>
<p>So i can remove my contact lenses in my room instead of plodding blindly back along the corridor from the bathroom, brush my teeth in my room without having to walk groggily to the bathroom, and handwash clothes that can't be put in the washing machine=)</p>
<p>exactly. it's just for convenience. im such a lazy bum! </p>
<p>i was thinking about my contact lenses too!</p>
<p>Haha, that makes sense, especially since some ungodly percentage of the MIT population is nearsighted (it's correlated with intelligence, dontchaknow ;) )</p>
<p>I thought it was something about not wanting to wash one's face in the bathroom, which I found extremely odd.</p>
<p>Yeah, like all my friends wear glasses or contacts! I'm one of the few oddballs who don't wear any. That probably explains why they are all smarter than me :p</p>
<p>Didn't "they" decide that the reason everyone wears glasses now is b/c our eyes are not well adapted to near vision, so reading/computing screw 'em up?</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000083/%5B/url%5D">http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000083/</a> -- it's the top abstract one comes to when searching "intelligence" and "nearsightedness" on scholar.google.com</p>
<p>Excerpt:
The moderate statistical association reported between myopia and intelligence strengthens greatly as one approaches the upper echelon of IQ performance (see section 2.1). For example, in a study by this author of 2,720 members of high-IQ organizations (mainly Mensa), 47% of the females and 33% of the males reported very early onset myopia (i.e. by age 10), compared with an 'expected' rate of roughly 5% among age cohorts with IQs in the normal range.</p>
<p>There is very strong evidence that myopia has been, and still is, mostly an inherited condition. This is not meant to imply that heavy exposure to 'near work' (such as reading or sewing) cannot induce myopia that requires the use of corrective lenses in people who have an underlying predisposition for it. Yet much of this rise is apparently due to a rapidly increasing proportion of urban/urbanizing populations being born with such a predisposition (see sections 4.1 to 4.3).</p>
<p>Of course, I'm not meaning to imply that this is gospel, or even necessarily true -- I just find it ego-stroking to believe that I wear glasses because of my robust neocortex, not my childhood habit of devouring books :)</p>
<p>mollieb, you live in Macgregor, right?</p>
<p>Do you know where I can get pics of the bedrooms and facilities of Macgregor other than those on <a href="http://web.mit.edu/housing/undergrad/macgregor.html?%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/housing/undergrad/macgregor.html?</a> The Macgregor site only has pics of people. I, and I'm sure other prefrosh, would be interested to see what the non-living things look like. :)</p>
<p>being all singles, they're small (save two doubles, I believe)</p>
<p>Ugh, how fully irritating. I can't find anything at the moment (granted, I am <em>supposed</em> to be writing a 10-page paper for 24.900 and am trying not to waste so much time that I have to stay up all night) -- I'll look a little harder tomorrow, and if I can't find anybody else's pics, I'll take some and post them for everyone's enjoyment. Deal? :)</p>
<p>also, being mostly singles doesn't mean that those singles are small. we have more doubles than mcgregor does (1-3 on each floor) but we're much smaller than them, only 4 floors, so i think that comes out to maybe 10 doubles in a hall of ~145 people. my single here, which i had absolutely no contest in getting as a frosh, is as large as the double i had before i moved here. the double on my hall, in which i was temped, and would've willingly stayed since i'm used to having a roommate, is as large as quads at my old dorm. so, not all singles are small, nor do all of them live in mcgregor, or even the most easily-gotten ones.</p>
<p>we'll be getting a DVD with videos of all the dorms.... :)</p>
<p>the i3 doesn't necessarily give you much or any information on how the rooms and amenities of the dorms are; the accompanying book will have some info about that, but parallels mostly what's on the official housing website. some of the dorms put a lot of effort into breaking down what sorts of rooms and who can live where, but some would prefer to use their space by giving you an overall impression of the place; point: don't rely on i3 to give you all the details you're looking for.</p>
<p>for general use when thinking about dorms, of course, i3 is a useful starting point.</p>
<p>I have a quick question about kitchen amenities-- what appliances are there? probably a microwave. but how about coffemaker? toaster oven? blender?</p>
<p>a kitchen means that, a kitchen, with a fridge, oven, stove, microwave, counters, garbage disposal. at least around here, and in ec and random (theirs have dishwashers too). the niceties, like a coffeemaker, toaster oven, or blender, not so much...tho many kitchens accrete community ware (both dishes, non-perishables, and appliances) and/or a food group that commonly uses the kitchen will often invest in appliances they want, or donate whatever they have into community until they leave.</p>
<p>What about pika?</p>