<p>My labmates and I were discussing this yesterday, because there is a mouse that has taken up residence in our lab’s office area (at Harvard), as stupid as it is to be a rodent who lives among hardened and resourceful professional rodent-killers. </p>
<p>Everybody had a story: my co-worker who recently had a baby was talking about the mice running up and down the hallway at Mass General; my co-worker who owns a house in Central was talking about the mice who eat the food of his second-floor tenant; my co-worker who lives in the (Harvard) dorms was talking about the mouse that skittered across his bed in the middle of the night.</p>
<p>Like UMTMYP, I lived in the MacGregor high-rise, and I don’t recall ever having seen a mouse. But I do recall having heard them in the walls. There are mice in every building in Cambridge, especially the older ones, and especially the ones where people leave out tasty food for them to eat.</p>