3 questions related to UG dorms and such

molliebatmit
Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:42:05 +0000

I lived at MacGregor, and I usually left the dorm twenty minutes before class was scheduled to begin – and that was because a lot of my classes were in [E25[/url]. Classes in the main part of campus, where most freshman classes are held, were about a ten minute walk or less.

There’s a campus shuttle that runs in a loop from Kendall to 77 Mass Ave to MacGregor every 20 minutes, but it was faster to walk, and I didn’t take the shuttle except for that one week every January when the wind chill was too low for me to bear.

Students who live in Boston can walk, bike, take an MBTA bus, or take [url=MIT Facilities - Parking & Transportation]an MIT shuttle](MIT Campus Map) to campus. Some of the FSILGs have their own vans to transport people back and forth. The advantage is that they’re living with their friends and are happy. Some people have more fun on campus, but living in the dorms isn’t for everybody.

I will be a little surprised if Ashdown has a dining hall, since I was under the impression that the rooms have kitchens. Generally dorms with lots of student kitchens don’t have dining halls (MacGregor, Burton-Conner, EC, Random, etc) since students there often cook for themselves.