"At Harvard they have this policy where if you pass too
many classes they ask you to leave," Stallman says.
With no dorm and no desire to return to New York,
Stallman followed a path blazed by Greenblatt, Gosper,
Sussman, and the many other hackers before him.
Enrolling at MIT as a grad student, Stallman rented an
apartment in nearby Cambridge but soon viewed the AI
Lab itself as his de facto home. In a 1986 speech,
Stallman recalled his memories of the AI Lab during
this period: I may have done a little bit more living
at the lab than most people, because every year or two
for some reason or other I'd have no apartment and I
would spend a few months living at the lab. And I've
always found it very comfortable, as well as nice and
cool in the summer. But it was not at all uncommon to
find people falling asleep at the lab, again because of
their enthusiasm; you stay up as long as you possibly
can hacking, because you just don't want to stop. And
then when you're completely exhausted, you climb over
to the nearest soft horizontal surface.
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