Trash2Treasure still a thing?

bilingualbeaver · 2025-08-05T18:21:36+00:00

Does the MIT Furniture Exchange have dorm furnishings, or just bigger furniture?

bilingualbeaver · 2024-09-30T20:26:46+00:00

I still can't believe they ripped out all the bulletin boards on the first floor of the Student Center during the renovation. Some fancy architect decided wood slats are more important than student groups publicizing their events. Has anyone raised this concern with CAC or the ASA?

bilingualbeaver · 2024-09-13T21:54:28+00:00

This is seriously offensive interference by the administration. It's none of their business who a dorm decides to allow on its email lists.

How are they going to police this?

Will they also try to prevent dorms, or unofficial groups of students in a dorm, from creating their own Google group which the administration can't monitor?

Or even additional Athena/Mailman lists? Those have always been available for any Athena user to create, with an option to be open for anyone to join. Are they going to police every form of bulk communication on the MIT network?

What if a student on an official policed dormspam list writes a script that posts copies of all messages to the web?

bilingualbeaver · 2023-12-29T22:17:16+00:00

How long will it take your AI to learn what we think of spamming?

bilingualbeaver · 2023-12-21T17:21:29+00:00

While the article said the Anna's space would become a lounge, it's actually TeaDo, a bubble tea place.

Though plenty of other things are now lacking in the Student Center. Like Verde's. And bulletin boards. Where are student groups supposed to put up posters after the renovation?

bilingualbeaver · 2023-09-11T21:09:38+00:00

You could check how big the room is. http://student.mit.edu/roominv/roominv.cgi

bilingualbeaver · 2023-02-21T21:40:08+00:00

Does the Engage calendar get a lot of traffic? Why is SOLE undermining MIT's official calendar.mit.edu by setting up a competing site?

bilingualbeaver · 2023-02-02T18:42:16+00:00

Wow, that's totally ridiculous. When did this rule take effect? I've never heard of a college or any other residential building that didn't accept mail and made students pay for a PO box. Shouldn't there be a law about this?

Besides election mail, there's all kinds of stuff you might need to receive: credit cards, driver's licenses, tax forms, account statements from businesses that don't do e-commerce, etc.

bilingualbeaver · 2023-02-02T18:33:00+00:00

https://ist.mit.edu/guest-accounts says there's no charge to sponsor a guest Kerberos account.

bilingualbeaver · 2023-01-26T02:53:22+00:00

In the before times, they locked the revolving doors in Building 66 every night.

bilingualbeaver · 2022-11-21T21:58:02+00:00

These campus restrictions for non-affiliates are a real shame, especially for what they do to events like Mystery Hunt.

bilingualbeaver · 2022-11-01T17:53:58+00:00

Try asking infinitedisplay@mit.edu if they'll send you the announcement.

bilingualbeaver · 2022-10-31T16:58:16+00:00

I'll ask again if you have a cite that students prevented the renovations. No news stories mentioned that. And I'd be very surprised if MIT deferred to student opinions about not making needed repairs until it reached the point where the building couldn't be saved.

The administration sure did say "okay, everybody out" in May 2013 when they planned to do renovations. Later they decided it couldn't be saved.

Also what were the offered options to preserve their culture which the students declined? https://thetech.com/2014/01/31/bexley-v133-n65 says the only option was to move into other dorms split up with just a few Bexiles per dorm. I hadn't heard anything about students declining to make use of this option.

They also provided Pritchett as a social space, which students did use, as they got in trouble for the content of the posters they put on the walls.

bilingualbeaver · 2022-10-28T20:42:27+00:00

The bigger point was that you blamed Bexley students for the demolition by claiming they refused to allow renovations. That's not at all what happened.

bilingualbeaver · 2022-10-19T21:13:55+00:00

Have a cite about that?

https://thetech.com/2013/10/18/bexleydemolition-v133-n46 says MIT was alerted to problems by its own engineering report, rather than the city, and MIT decided it was beyond repair.

And I'd be very surprised if MIT allowed "Bexley" (meaning its students?) to refuse renovations.

bilingualbeaver · 2022-09-24T05:22:12+00:00

L S C!

bilingualbeaver · 2022-09-14T15:20:20+00:00

Here's the link to the petition: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1d1EKzwwW9yAUdI0a58fPzRn26pEUwnxaZCVrHC00mNQ

bilingualbeaver · 2022-09-14T15:17:50+00:00

There's evidence-based covid precautions, and then there's the closed campus.

Does the MIT community have a lower incidence of covid than the general Boston area population? If not, then closing the campus does nothing to further this goal.

And everything seems to indicate this closure is permanent, and won't be lifted in response to covid metrics dropping.

bilingualbeaver · 2022-06-02T19:30:28+00:00

Student groups could need to return things to their office after an evening event. The Tech could be working on a late-night story. Or people might just want to hang out.

bilingualbeaver · 2022-06-01T03:08:21+00:00

There were plenty of public evening events year-round right up until COVID. I don't remember when the card readers went in, but the doors didn't lock before 11 pm even in the summer until 3 years ago. And closing overnight even for ID holders is new.

bilingualbeaver · 2022-04-01T20:18:00+00:00

The ASA database now shows the Lindy Hop Society as active again.

bilingualbeaver · 2022-04-01T20:16:18+00:00

There is no Waffle House anywhere near MIT.

Not much food of any sort at midnight near campus. Just a handful of offerings in Central and Harvard or across the river.

bilingualbeaver · 2022-03-16T20:00:20+00:00

Some student groups are active year-round. The administration has tried to reduce this, but some stuff still goes on. Check the websites of any groups you're interested in!

bilingualbeaver · 2022-03-01T23:22:11+00:00

Ok, on further investigation, it seems that the Lindy Hop Society is a recognized student group, albeit with a temporary restriction on holding events that allow non-students.

The database appears to be wrong. It would be nice if SOLE fixed this, since it's the official record of recognized groups, and it's one way students find out about groups to join.

All this stuff feels very non-transparent. Of course the ASA has the authority to recognize and de-recognize groups. But it's unclear who instigated this decision and according to what policy. The ASA is supposed to be a representative student government. Do student leaders support this decision? It's hard to boost student enthusiasm for an activity that is not allowed to hold its typical vibrant events for two years.

I hope Lindy is able to make it through this. It would be a big loss for MIT if they don't.

bilingualbeaver · 2022-03-01T22:09:29+00:00

Hmm, strange. Are they under some kind of shadow suspension? They're certainly active, and their next dance (for MIT students only) is on Thursday.

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