My overall experience doing laundry at McCormick is positive. However, this is my fourth semester living at McCormick, so I am pretty fluent in using the laundry facilities and am lucky enough to not have any trouble doing my laundry so far. I do think there is a learning curve as some aspects of the process can only be learned through experience, such as knowing that each drying cycle is 17 minutes and what level of dryness that results in.
The total cost of using the machines is $1.50, and the estimated cost of the detergent and drying sheets is $0.26, which is $1.76 in total per load. A cost comparison of home laundry and laudromats estimates that the cost per load at laundromats is about $3.12 and the cost per load at home is about $0.97. Knowing this, I wish the price of laundry at McCormick would be lower but the price right now is reasonable.
Let's see what others think!
Elizabeth, a current MIT senior living in McCormick, appreciates that the laundry room is within the building and that students have the convenience of viewing which machines are open on the LaundryView website. Her old dorm often had problems with the TechCash reader, so she also appreciates that the TechCash reader here works. She's been told that only the top loading washing machines actually use cold water, which is only two of the seven machines. This is a bit concerning to her, so she's just been using those two.
Larry, a significant other of a McCormick resident, says that doing laundry is inconvenient because it's all the way in the basement and there are often times when the laundry machines are all in use. He also complains that the card reader doesn't work half the time and it's easy to lose socks.
Khanh, a MIT alumni and past McCormick resident, believes that doing laundry at McCormick is really easy and convenient for the most part. However, there is no organized system for when people need to take out other people's laundry to do their own. The current solution involves random emailing or writing on a cluttered whiteboard, which is very confusing. She feels that although there is a good number of dryers, there are not enough washing machines. When the TechCash reader was down, she wouldn't have any quarters, which was a major frustration.