Author: Sport Death

Senior House Mural Exhibit: Find Where You Thrive

In past 20 years, Senior House residents painted over 450 murals– on walls, ceilings, doors, bathrooms, floors, stairwells — and used the internal architecture of the building to create an immersive experience. Check out the exhibit in the Student Center from now until May 7, and check out coverage in The Tech:

https://thetech.com/2018/04/19/senior-house-mural-exhibit

Mentee Template

Interested in being mentored by other members of the Senior House community?

  1. Register
  2. Add New Post
  3. Copy and paste the categories below
  4. Provide appropriate information
  5. Upload featured image
  6. Save

Your page will then be reviewed by an admin and posted as “Private” in the category, “Mentee” and with the appropriate tags (e.g., location, major). Check out the available mentors and submit requests.

Thanks in advance for your support of our community!

Please share the following information in your mentee post:

  • ABOUT ME:
  • YEARS AFFILIATED WITH MIT/SENIOR HOUSE:
  • COMMUNICATION FREQUENCY:
  • COMMUNICATION FORMAT:
  • LOCATION:
  • WHAT TOPICS WOULD YOU LIKE TO DISCUSS WITH MENTORS:
  • *Upload featured image; this image can identifying or abstract*

Other suggested categories include…

  • What would you paint as a mural in Senior House:
  • Favorite memory of Senior House community
  • Where is your happy place:
  • What is the last thing you ate:
  • What is the last thing you read:
  • Anything else you would like to share!

Mentor Template

Interested in becoming a mentor to other members of the Senior House community?

  1. Register
  2. Add New Post
  3. Copy and oaste the categories below
  4. Provide appropriate information
  5. Upload featured image
  6. Save

Your page will then be reviewed by an admin and posted as “Private” in the category, “Mentor” and with the appropriate tags (e.g., location, major). Interested mentees will then submit requests for specific mentors which will be forwarded to registered mentors.

Thanks in advance for your support of our community!

Please share the following information in your mentor post:

  • ABOUT ME:
  • YEARS AFFILIATED WITH MIT/SENIOR HOUSE:
  • COMMUNICATION FREQUENCY:
  • COMMUNICATION FORMAT:
  • LOCATION:
  • WHAT TOPICS ARE YOU OPEN TO DISCUSS WITH MENTEES:
  • *Upload featured image; this image can identifying or abstract*

Other suggested categories include…

  • What would you paint as a mural in Senior House:
  • Favorite memory of Senior House community
  • Where is your happy place:
  • What is the last thing you ate:
  • What is the last thing you read:
  • Anything else you would like to share!

MIT misused survey data to take action against Senior House by Elizabeth Glaser

A parent shares the results of her investigation into MIT’s participation in the Healthy Minds Study

To the editor:

In Spring of 2015, my son and about 1300 of his fellow undergraduates at MIT participated in a survey conducted by the Healthy Minds Study (HMS). When the final results of that survey were released one year later, the MIT administration took actions specifically focused on the residents of one dorm, Senior House, justifying it by mentioning survey data concerning mental health and substance use issues in the residence.

My son was dismayed to hear of the actions taken, since like other students he had believed the housing data gathered was based on the broad categories asked in the survey such as on or off campus housing, not by specific living group. Although, not living at Senior House, he was not directly impacted by the administrations actions, he stated that if he had known how the data would be used against fellow students he would never have participated.

Read More: https://thetech.com/2017/07/26/healthy-minds-survey-misuse

Who lost Senior House? by Jim Pekar (SB ’81)

Thousands of hours of student time were lost preparing for, attending, and following up on meetings that were part of the official Turnaround, Probation, and Readmission processes for Senior House, all of which failed. These failures can be attributed to poor leadership. The Turnaround process lacked clear goals, objectives, and evaluation criteria. The Probation process lacked clear goals, objectives, and evaluation criteria. The Readmission process had the vague goal of creating “a new community” but no clear evaluation criteria.

Read More: https://thetech.com/2017/07/26/james-pekar-letter

Senior House to House Grad Students in Fall 2017

Latest E-mail from Chancellor Barnhart:

Dear [student],

I wrote last month that significant change is needed in Senior House. President Reif, Provost Schmidt, Vice President Zuber, and I made that decision together.

The reaction from the Senior House community has reinforced our decision. The misinformation, denials, and responses – online, in emails, and in person – violate MIT values. We no longer believe that first-year and continuing students living in Senior House next year will be able to define for themselves their own community values and living experience.

This has led us to conclude that our plan to re-set the undergraduate experience in Senior House is unworkable. Senior House is now closed to undergraduates, and it will reopen in the fall to graduate students. We continue to stand by our responsibility for providing all MIT students with safe residential environments, and we intend to fulfill that obligation.

You recently received your alternate fall housing assignment. If you have any questions or concerns about dining, financial aid, work study or any other topic associated with moving, please do not hesitate to contact David Randall or Jennifer Hapgood-White at residential-support@mit.edu.

UPDATE: Plans of repopulation abandoned: Senior House to become graduate housing (The Tech, July 13, 2017)