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<p>Then MIT could create more restrictions (or enforce existing ones), which would be very different from FOC. And it’s not like FOC only stops frosh from (technically) living in frats, it also stops them from living in sororities and ILGs. Plus, as Mollie said, it’s </p>
<p>I think FOC is destructive to both dorms and FSILGs, not to mention individual students. It makes it harder for FSILGs to stay afloat (which actually can lead to harder sells on their parts because they need warm bodies), and it fills dorms with frosh who don’t really want to be there, damaging their community and creating hostility both from and toward FSILG frosh. FSILG frosh who belong to FSILGs with meal plans and are living in dorms with dining halls get screwed and forced to double-pay if they want to eat at their FSILG. All frosh are given less control over their living situation.</p>
<p>FOC was a mistake that various admins had wanted for a long time, and Krueger was an excuse to put it in (there’s a reason why some people talk about the “post-Krueger world” with the same sarcasm that civil libertarians will talk about the “post-9/11 world”).</p>
<p>Okay, now that I have said my piece on that, I will get back on topic:</p>
<p>The Athena clusters (computer rooms) vary a bit, but most of them are pretty good, and there are a lot of them, all over campus. Having been a student at other universities, it’s amazing how much easier it is at MIT to go use a computer, to which <em>all</em> students (and not just the ones in, say, engineering) have access, on the spur of the moment, without going much out of your way.</p>
<p>Some of the classrooms are much more comfortable than others. Some are more technologically advanced than others. The classrooms come in a wide variety of sizes.</p>
<p>Every lab that I ever went in, that I can recall, was pretty nice.</p>