<p>The key to picking a dorm at MIT is to pick the right culture – of course all of the dorms have great people, but it’s the different cultures those people have created that you want to select. It’s analogous to picking a college, in that there may be one or more colleges where you could and would be happy, but you have to make a choice, so you want to make that choice based on non-lame factors.</p>
<p>I am just as strongly opposed to picking a dorm at MIT for the perceived cleanliness (there are dorm staff who clean all of the dorms) or its age as I am to picking MIT for the weather or the campus architecture.</p>