<p>Hello everyone, </p>
<p>I will be staying at Simmons Hall this summer during my REU at MIT and I was wondering if some current students could let me know a few things about Simmons.</p>
<p>First, how big are the single rooms? Do rooms get pretty hot during the summer? Are there kitchens where I can cook or will I need to eat out most days? Finally, how are the floors and rooms organized? Is it kinda suite like or one big floor with one common area?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>It will get miserably hot in the summer. And I believe Simmons windows aren’t large enough for most window air conditioners.</p>
<p>Is it really! I always thought Simmons would be like a nice cool cave in the summer. Or at least that’s what I’d fantasize about while living in the red brick oven that is MacGregor A Entry during the summer.</p>
<p>There are ways to make window air conditioners work in the dorms with inhospitable windows, and I would highly recommend looking into them. For example, the MacG high rise has non-removable screens on the windows, but my favorite aerospace engineer rigged me a foam ducting system so I could have an AC.</p>
<p>^It was designed as a sponge, so it will suck up all the heat in the air. </p>
<p>Hah, don’t complain about the heat. It cannot be that bad compared to where I stayed one summer in Europe, where most dorms don’t even have AC’s and it’s not even a thing… oh the luxuries American kids take for granted. 
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<p>As for the floor organization, I believe it is a lot of long hallways with doors alongside and maybe a few wings, but I am not sure about that. Mostly long hallways and doors . </p>
<p>I’m not generally a huge wuss, but Boston can get pretty unbearable during the summer – not just hot, but sticky and humid. Many/most residential buildings in the city don’t have central air, not just the dorms. </p>
<p>Being from LA and always seeing 100+ over the summer, Boston is definitely worse in my book. Humidity is terrible. </p>
<p>Where in Europe were you?</p>
<p>I have actually been in Boston/MIT for two previous summers where I stayed at New House (loved having AC) and Burton-Conner and I know how hot Boston summers can be, I just have no knowledge whatsoever on Simmons. </p>
<p>So it seems Simmons is quite hot then? I might have to get a good fan or figure a way to install an AC it seems…</p>
<p>I don’t think Simmons is particularly worse than other dorms. I just wouldn’t want to be in Boston for a summer without air conditioning.</p>
<p>I’ve been living since graduation in an apartment complex with central air, but I’m in the process of moving back to Cambridge to a cute one-bed in a historic building in Central. You bet your bottom dollar I’m also in the process of shopping for a window air-conditioner unit.</p>
<p>Fan won’t really help, at least not in my experience, heads up.</p>
<p>I’ve been taking power yoga classes at 90-100 degrees and high humidity since winter. I really hope I’m ready for summer in Boston.</p>