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as an alum, this is terrible and sad. i'm friends with a class of 62' who wanted to walk around campus on a now-rare visit to Cambridge. he emailed me about ho
by whymauri 4y ago
as an alum, this is terrible and sad. i'm friends with a class of 62' who wanted to walk around campus on a now-rare visit to Cambridge.
he emailed me about how sad he was he couldn't enter any buildings. that's just a bummer man.
- freddie_mercury 4y agoHe can still enter buildings. Do you really think the MIT Alumni Association can't arrange visitor passes?
- HFguy 4y agoFWIW, I was able to enter all the buildings I tried recently. Did not notice any restriction.
- caddemon 4y agoThe restrictions are clearly there, you can't miss the eyesore in lobby 7. But you're right that they're easy enough to get around if you're just looking to access main group buildings. The restrictions are inconsistent across entry points and it's super easy to tailgate students during the day anyway. Places like Hayden library are currently much harder to get into without a student ID though.
- ipince 4y agoI don't want anyone to arrange any passes. It creates a barrier to entry, however small, that means fewer and fewer people will gain access to MIT and be inspired by it.
- SamBam 4y ago"Arrange a visitor pass" is 100% different than open buildings, which is what it used to be.
- giarc 4y agoI googled 'MIT Tim Ticket' and got this on the first page. "New for MIT alumni: MIT alumni can now sign up for a digital MIT ID for ongoing access to MIT’s non-residential buildings and facilities on campus."
- mensetmanusman 4y agoI have mine, and it’s activated, but it doesn’t open doors; you still have to have an administrator vouch for you and send your mobile a QR code.
- dinvlad 4y agoJust got demotivated to get one. Is there a reason why they do all that? Is that because of Covid or something else? I've been kinda under the rock on this..
- caddemon 4y agoCOVID was the original reason but it's not clear why they're keeping it this way. At least what I've read has been pretty vague/weak justification. I guess there was some legitimacy to the concerns that heavy-handed COVID restrictions might actually never be lifted.
- clintonb 4y agoCOVID still exists. We are still in a pandemic.
- oleganza 4y agoYes, and we are all going to die.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoIt’s endemic now, meaning that due to a number of factors (including that it is dormant in wild animals), it will exist forever at some baseline. This is analogous to how HIV is endemic and kills ~1M per year worldwide.