Accord­ing to a state­ment released by the Divi­sion of Stu­dent Life last week, land­line tele­phones will be removed from all on-campus dorm bed­rooms by the end of sum­mer.via Land­lines set to be removed from dorm rooms – The Tech.

It makes me a lit­tle sad when a major piece of infra­struc­ture is retired. Tele­phones were a tan­gi­ble part of my col­lege expe­ri­ence. Like dial­ing the front desk. Call­ing for pizza and hop­ing to hear the phone ring from the lounge. Ask­ing ridicu­lous ques­tions of Night­line. Hav­ing the cam­pus police dis­patcher mis­tak­enly dial me instead of the house­mas­ter nearly every time the police needed fac­ulty intervention.

Amus­ingly, MIT’s forward-thinking solu­tion is to return the dorm to its 1980s con­fig­u­ra­tion, with com­mon phones in the hall­ways and lounges replac­ing pri­vate phones in the rooms.