<p>If you get a single, yes you’ll have the room if you are willing to sacrifice space that could’ve been something else. If you get a double, you’ll have less room (probably won’t fit it unless you sacrifice your dresser or something :P) and possibly a roommate who doesn’t want a tower.
I’m currently in a single and have a second desk set up with a 3-foot-long aquarium :)</p>
<p>If you can get to this page (<a href=“Account Provider Selection”>Account Provider Selection) without certs, you can check out the layout of any dorm room.</p>
<p>(I can’t remember if this page is behind certs or not)</p>
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<p>And I still have a monitor, and a keyboard and a mouse.</p>
<p>Yeah I still don’t understand, I mean there must be more students who want single rooms than the amount of single rooms available, does MIT give the single rooms to the Brightest Mites?</p>
<p>“TO BRING my full tower… OR NOT TO BRING my full tower…” - Well Lame Shakes Beer</p>
<p>If we need to use Linux/Unix in class, is virtual environment acceptable? Or do I have to make it booted?</p>
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No. 
It’s done by seniority within a dorm, generally, and then often by lottery if there are many people with the same level of seniority.</p>
<p>But my impression is that there are a lot more single rooms at MIT than at other schools. Generally, if you really want a single, you can have one after freshman year in many/most dorms. And some dorms regularly have singles available for freshmen. My dorm, MacGregor, is actually all singles, for everybody who lives there.</p>
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Oh, 2’ by 2’ by 9’‘? That’s definitely fine. I think the standard-issue MIT dorm room desk is at least 4’ by 2’.</p>
<p>Wish I had a “Solution” button to click! So you’re saying freshmen cannot get a single room. </p>
<p>Wow I googled MIT dorms and the desks are so small in the Google images, at least they seem so small they would only fit a laptop on there. lol.</p>
<p>Btw usually the problem with fitting my tower lies in the tower length, so the table’s width would be more important than the table length…</p>
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Nope, not what I’m saying – like I said, I had one the entire time I was at MIT. But they’re rarer for freshmen, while sophomores and up can generally have one if they want one.</p>
<p>The standard desk is definitely at least two feet wide, and I’m probably lowballing. It’s possible that they haven’t gotten new dorm furniture since the time that all students would have had a tower and a giant CRT monitor. ;)</p>
<p>Thank you molliebatmit, thats just great news!</p>
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<p>I would really really not recommend getting a bigger, heavier computer. If she is carrying the computer to class or to the library, with its weight added to that of her books, journals, papers, etc. she may well come to loathe her decision. I know the newest MacBook pro is lighter than they have been in the past, but if I could redo my college computer choice, I would go for an Air. Unless she will be running a great deal of code, an Air will do her fine. I’ve actually known a few CompSci students who had Airs, but they admitted that despite its lightness and convenience, they at times needed something more powerful.</p>