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Random Hall

📍 282 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02238
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🏛 Corridor🚿 Communal Bathroom👥 Co-Ed❄️ No AC
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About Random Hall

Random Hall is MIT's smallest and quirkiest residence hall — a 95-person 1950s building located off the main MIT campus on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Vassar Street (a 5-minute walk). Random is famously self-governing and eccentric, with a culture that prizes independence, creativity, and intellectual exploration. Corridor-style rooms with communal bathrooms, no central AC. Random's unusual name reflects both its quirky culture and the fact that it was originally numbered randomly on MIT's building map.

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