The quirkiness and humor of the MIT community shows itself in unusual ways.

It is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dorm-wide social mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing.” This has led to the collection of some very colorful data.

Two hand drawn pie charts: Left pie chart illustrating the variety of underwear patterns worn by women and right pie chart illustrating underwear patterns worn by men