An Explanation

An Explanation Several years ago (I believe it was 3 but it may have been 2) there was an MIT student who didnt have quite enough credits to graduate. This happens (especially because HASS requirements are so weird), so they opted to stay another year in order to finish up and graduate. One day, towards the end of this students senior year, a small skirmish took place on the dorms e-mail list between this senior and an undergraduate in the dorm. Things got heated, words were exchanged, and then this happened: Undergraduate This whole argument is silly. Well, thanks for bringing it up then. By the way, congratulations on graduating. Senior Wow, way to make an insulting, totally useless reply to the entire dorm. Undergraduate uhh, he is graduating, right? and graduating people, i presume, wont be staying in the dorm over the summer. so, if my two assumptions are true, i admire [name]s heroism for taking time out of his busy final study schedule to make sure that the portion of summer residents who watch movies are happy. oh, if youre not graduating (whether youre not a senior or otherwise), sorry, thats all i meant by the comment. Senior No, Im not graduating. Yes, Im in the dorm for the summer. Yes, Im in the dorm next year. Anything else? Interested in my personal life? Undergraduate What color underwear do you have on right now? [For the record, it was blue, with penguins.] From then on, every e-mail sent to the Burton-Conner dorm e-mail list (bctalk [at] mit [dot] edu) MUST be signed with the senders underwear color. It has become a tradition. By signing with your underwear color you are saying My e-mail is worth reading. I am willing to tell you my underwear color if youll read my e-mail, thats how worth reading it is. Soooooooo . . . . for all of you prefrosh that came to CPW and hung out around Burton-Conner, you may have seen some snazzy light blue shirts floating around. Maybe they looked a little something like this? These shirts, our unofficial dorm shirts, have the line What color is YOUR underwear? on the back. This is not because we are creepy sexual deviants hitting on you. This is just because we want to know your underwear color. -Snively gray (Thanks to the commenter who provided the exact transcript) Post Tagged #Burton-Conner House