[ke88y]

It's not about rooms. One of the required courses is sailing. Only so many little training sail boats can even fit on the Charles.

[eichin]

And at least back in the day, the pistol/rifle range wasn't very large either (and had a variety of competing users.)

[brewdad]

Why doesn’t MIT dredge a lake on campus then?

[doctorwho42]

Have you looked at a map of Boston/Cambridge? The Charles is practically a large dredged up lake on MIT campus, it just happens that MIT only occupies one side of the 'lake' lol

[ke88y]

...and the rest of campus is some of the most valuable real estate in the world.