[1692] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
[Mit-talk] Re: dollar bill mural
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Z Maze)
Wed Dec 14 12:31:00 2005
From: David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu>
To: mit-talk@mit.edu
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:21:22 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20051214164951.GA13129@lore.csail.mit.edu> (Martha Angela
Wilcox's message of "Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:49:52 -0500")
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
Martha Angela Wilcox <angela@csail.mit.edu> writes:
> A student lounge should be a comfortable place
> to hang-out with friends. A fish bowl where international tour groups
> (yes, one actually walked up and took a picture with me once when I was
> in lobby 7 like I was some sort of mit statue), sketchy grad students,
> or tired undergrads can oogle at people supposedly "hanging out" does
> not sound very comfortable. In fact, being so close to such a
> high-traffic area, it seems like the only way to make the lounge
> somewhat comfortable would be to partially shield it from the
> hustle-bustle of the Infinite.
Before the current Student Services Center was built, the space in
Building 11 where the current "quick-cluster" is was three separate
Athena clusters and some other I/S-related space. The outermost
cluster had all glass walls, and was commonly known as "the fish
bowl", since every campus tour would stop outside of it to talk about
Athena. This didn't stop it from being one of the heaviest-used
clusters on campus; the trip to other nearish clusters (37-312, 4-035,
1-142, ...) could often get you a login faster than waiting for a
machine in the fishbowl to open up.
--dzm
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