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    		• Building capacity:
    		146 beds
    		• 08-09 Cost per semester: single $3315 double $$2929
    		• House tax for 08-09: estimated $65/semester
    		• Health/Allergy considerations: carpets in rooms, smoking permitted in some halls and suites, cats and fish permitted, air conditioning
  		• Upperclass room sizes: singles
    		• Freshmen room sizes: doubles
    		• Kitchens and/or dining halls: floor kitchens, nearest to Stata Center Dining
    		• Network access wired connection and wireless access
    		• Room squatting allowed?: No


    Senior house - mostly harmless

    Senior house students are characterized by their breadth and individuality. Whether your hair is mousy brown or electric blue, whether you listen to classical concertos or cutting edge undiscovered bands, whether you like sushi or greasy diner food, trashy novels or great lit in dead languages, long quiet conversations or pickup basketball in the courtyard you will find those who share your tastes at MIT. If you read crap like the above and hate it largely because you can’t peg yourself on either or lists, we love you already. We are happy to sometimes march to the beat of a different drummer.

    We are comfortable with ourselves and with each other -- and if we aren’t, we fake it until it becomes true. We have 150 beds in the dorm and 150 different kinds of students. We are straight, gay, lesbian, bi and poly. And some of us are too damn busy with other things to worry about college romances. We take people the way we find them. Tolerance is the one virtue we value even more than individuality.

    We love the sight of a hundred bouncy balls hitting the courtyard at once! We can think out of the left-sides of our brains. Many of the students are artists, musicians, or humanists. If tire-swinging gets those juices flowing, who are we to argue? Walking down the hallway can be an adventure - that keeps us all more alert and alive.

    Senior House students think for themselves and make their own decisions. We minimize the number of rules and work things out within our own community.

    You can come home again. Our annual Steer Roast, a house-wide party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our courtyard, is one of the largest alumni events at MIT. Many former residents come back every year. We've got lots of tradition - we're the oldest dorm on campus. Open 24 hours a day - unlike the rest of Boston. We hope you'll come here for the community, not just in search of a bed. You can't really tell what this (or any other) dorm is like from just reading. We hope you'll come by and get to know us.


    last update: August 31, 2009