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I 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-
by giarc 4y ago
I 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.
- caddemon 4y agoI think once vaccine rollout was widespread it was time to lift many of the restrictions. But regardless of your opinions on this, MIT is not claiming the restrictions are still there because of COVID. They are outright saying they are keeping the closed campus as other restrictions are lifted, for security reasons.
- Nextgrid 4y agoThe biggest danger with regards to Covid is not the formal restrictions or mandates, it's its convenience as a scapegoat for various shortcomings or reductions of service level. Even 2 years down the line I'm still seeing businesses blaming Covid for various issues instead of blaming themselves and their inability to run/manage a business properly.
- ipince 4y agoI tried this on Monday and it didn't work. Even if it did, this goes beyond access for alumni. I believe the campus should be open to everyone, as it's been for decades. It's one of MIT's values, as Reif himself said: > Because openness is a central MIT value, our campus is open too. The vast majority of our buildings are open to the public and the campus has no visible perimeter; we are an aggressively ungated community that works around the clock and welcomes the world in.