Something to chalk about by Andi Q. '25

“These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

March 24, 2024

MIT is a 168-acre playground for the world’s brightest undergrads, and nowhere is that more apparent than at Simmons Hall – my beautiful, spongey dorm. We have cats! A ball pit! And we can even draw on the walls! Not with paint (as students used to do in East Campus and Burton Conner) or crayons though, but with chalk.

I blogged about some of the awesome chalk murals in Simmons last year, but many were erased over the past summer⁠01 For unsavory reasons I will not get into . It was a sad day when we moved back in and saw they were gone, but now we have a whole new batch of murals, thanks to the talented artists living in Simmons! So here are some more pictures of awesome chalk murals from around the dorm.

Big thanks to everyone who sent me pictures for this post!

Floors 1 and 2

It's amazing what you can draw with just charcoal. This is one of the most visible murals (right by the top of the stairs), and it's one of the most impressive ones too

"A platypus? ... PERRY the platypus??"