You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
...ok yeah, that's pretty stupid
the "scary for adults" one shouldn't even have existed in the first place
collect the ducks = best, pretty fun soccer = very chaotic and hard to control (i scored two goals for the opposing team once!), it's okay borderless platform = frustrating, not very fun
As far as MIT is concerned, Massachusetts Avenue runs north-south, and the Charles River runs east-west. While this is convenient, it isn’t particularly true, as Cambridge enjoys a peculiar immunity from reason. The Charles River runs north-south, east-west and (again) north-south near MIT; and both Mass Ave and the Red Line (which supposedly follows Mass Ave) angle around so much that nobody even bothers to give objective directions to anywhere.
In this section, “north” means “up Mass Ave towards Central Square”; “south” means “towards the river, where the Hahvard bridge is”; “east” means “also towards the river, but where the Longfellow Bridge is”; and “west” means “also also towards the river, but along Vassar Street.”
MIT’s main campus is quite compact and often confusing to navigate, with tunnels, passageways, and cleverly-hidden hallways. If you’re new to the place, you could try walking around and getting lost once or twice just to get the hang of it, or you could get an overview by taking an Information Center tour. Tours are given at 10am and 2pm.
Nearly everything at MIT is referred to by number, and places are no exception. The general formula for a room number is x-yzz, where x is the building number, y indicates the floor where the room is located, and zz is the number of the room on that floor.
Exceptions abound for everything. Building 54 is 21 stories tall, so its upper rooms have 4-digit numbers: 54-100 is on the first floor, 54-1100 would be on the eleventh. However, the “first” floor of 54 occupies the 3rd & 4th stories of the building - apparently because Cambridge building codes restrict the number of floors in a building, but not the height. (There are a few other places on campus that has 4-digit room numbers, but that’s left as an exercise for the reader.)
All buildings at MIT are numbered according to their location. This is not to imply that the numbering makes sense, but rather that there is a method to it. Building numbers have an indicative prefix:
• M or none: Main Campus. The area enclosed by Ames St, the train tracks, and Mass Ave. Athena Clusters on main campus are prefixed with an M, as in “m38 cluster”; this occasionally carries over in conversation. • W: Buildings west of main campus, but south of the train tracks. • NW: Buildings west of Mass Ave but north of the train tracks. • N: Buildings north of the train tracks, but between Mass Ave, and Main Street. • NE: Buildings north of Main Street but west of 3rd Street. • E: Buildings east of Ames Street and south of Main Street, plus E70.
Two anomalies are Building 46, which straddles the train tracks and thus the N/M boundary; and Building E70, which is north of Main Street (and of NE18, NE20, and NE25) but isn’t called NE70.
Plenty of other strange situations exist, due to the layout of Cambridge proper: N57 is farther west than a lot of W and NW buildings; NE49 is farther west than half of main campus and the N buildings; the same train tracks are both east of half the NE buildings and south of all the N buildings; etc, etc.
Some building numbers have suffixes, usually denoting nearby or connected subdivisions (7 & 7A, for example). An exception is Building 14, which doesn’t really exist above ground; it is the composition of buildings 14N, 14E, 14S, 14W and the courtyard enclosed by the buildings. Building 32 is also notable in that the suffix letter appears as part of the room number, rather than the building number (32-Gyyy not 32G-yyy).
Tunnels exist between buildings 14 & 18; 18 & 54; 54 & 56; 26 & 32; 66 & 68; 68 & E17/E18/E19; between the parallels of East Campus (for EC residents); and between New House and MacGregor (for New House residents only). See map for details.
Basements otherwise connect where two buildings meet. They can be handy in bad weather or to avoid “rush hour traffic” at the top of the hour. Be careful of floor changes — in going from one building to the next, a ramp or a few steps may mean you’ve gone up or down a floor. The Infinite Corridor traffic can be bypassed on the 2nd, 3rd, or basement levels. It may be more convenient, depending on your destination, to walk through Killian Court, or along the street outside building 13.
Notice that buildings to the East (2,4,6,8) and West (1,3,5,7) of Killian Court are symmetric, except for Lobby 7.
The doors to the following buildings are always unlocked: 7, 8, 16, 39, and W20, the Student Center. Doors are usually kept open until 11pm in buildings 13, 14, 24, 56, Kresge and the Chapel.
Tips: • You can get from 77 Mass Ave to within 100 feet of the Kendall T stop without ever going outside. • Tired of waiting for the slow elevators in Lobby 10 or Lobby 7? If you want to go to the 4th floor of the main buildings, take the lobby 16 elevators to the 5th floor and turn left. You will find yourself on the 4th floor of the main buildings.
Can’t get there from here: • The 2nd floor of 13 does not connect to the main buildings. • The 1st floor of 9 does not connect to the main buildings. • The 3rd floor of 9 does not connect to building 7. It used to, until the Rotch library was built. It’s worth a visit. • Be careful of the elevators in 4 and 6. The door on one floor is blocked by a file cabinet. Try to figure out which floor. • The 1st and 2nd floors of 36 do not connect to 32. • There are no tunnels between dorms and academic buildings, despite what the upperclassmen may tell you. • Your MIT ID card will not let you access Buildings 18 or 68, nor the upper floors of 16 or 54, unless you work there.
Where is... • the Secret Ninja Courtyard: the courtyard bounded by 8, 6, 2 and 4. Accessible from the basement level. • the Secret Ninja Parking Lot: the courtyard bounded by 7, 5, 3 and 1. Accessible via road, or the basement level. • the Fishbowl: Student Services Center area (named after the Fishbowl Cluster which was removed to make way for the SSC). • Transparent Horizon: The sculpture between the two parallels of East Campus and 66. • Fred T. Dorm (“Fred”, for short): East Campus • the Great Sail: Alexander Calder’s large metal sculpture between Walker, 14, 18, and the West Parallel of EC (properly known as the Big Sail). • the Dot: The circle of grass in front of the Green Building (officially named McDermott Court). • the Green Building: 54 • the Bio Building: 68 • Walker: 50 • Hayden: 14 • Networks: Courses • Courses: Alpine Bagel Company • Tosci’s: the front of W20 where Arrow Street Crepes was. • Anna’s Taqueria: what filled in the space where Arrow Street Crepes was. • the Stata Center: 32 • the Two Towers: 32-D (Minas Tirith) and 32-G (Minas Morgul). • the Z-Center, Dupont, and Johnson: the sweaty complex west of W20. • Briggs field: the giant field west of Kresge. • the nuclear reactor (NW12): the blue dome west of Mass Ave, just north of the train tracks. • the MIT Museum (N52): at the corner of Mass Ave and Front St.
whereis.mit.edu and floorplans.mit.edu can be useful references for other such questions.
Recent changes to MIT’s campus
Building 20 was demolished in 1998, and Building 32 erected on the same spot. E10 and E20 were torn down in 2001 to make way for E14, the Media Lab Extension project, which has been postponed for lack of funds. Building 45 was recycled in 2004 to make way for Building 46 — the McGovern Institute for Brain & Cognitive Science — which is due to open in 2005. The “(Far) East Campus Project”, currently unscheduled, is slated to create a “vibrant community” for Sloanies.
Building 32 (the Stata Center) is complicated. The building officially consists of two nine-story towers sharing a two-story base, and also includes three underground floors with 678 parking spaces. However, the lower four floors of the towers (that is, the third through sixth floors of 32) are also connected, though only the fourth floor rooms are numbered with their tower designations. The towers, much like the overall complex, are named after major donors: the eastern tower after Bill Gates, the western one after Alexander Dreyfoos, and are numbered 32-G and 32-D. Amusingly, the two towers are also called Minas Morgul (32-G) and Minas Tirith (32-D) by their inhabitants.
There are five exterior entrances to Building 32: on Vassar Street by 36; between 36 and 26; just west of 57 (the Alumni Pool); and two on the eastern side.
Here are a few guidelines for finding a bathroom quickly. On the main corridor, lavatories are stacked vertically, men’s above women’s and vice versa. They normally occur at the junction of two buildings — for instance, 3 101, which is a women’s room. In the other main buildings, a similar situation applies, with bathrooms occurring at the ends of buildings or just before (or after) a corner. Example: 1-101 is a men’s room. In the newer buildings, men’s and women’s rooms are usually close together and either centrally or peripherally located. The notable exception is Building 14 with men’s rooms at the western end, women’s rooms at the eastern end, and none on the first floor. Check the corridors for water fountains. Where there is a fountain, a bathroom usually isn’t far away.
Card Readers
Many doors on campus have card readers that will allow you to use your MIT card to unlock the door. The card readers have three lights on them. A flashing green light means the lock is inactive, and the door can be opened by pushing or pulling as appropriate. A solid yellow light means you must swipe your card to open the door. A pattern that flashes red-green, yellow means that the door is being held open. If you swipe your card, and see a green light (usually accompanied by an audible click), the door has been unlocked by your card. If you swipe your card and see a red light, it means that you are not authorized to use that door. Contact the Card Office if you think you should be able to use it. If you see a rapidly flashing red light after swiping, it means your card could not be read correctly, or that the reader is broken.
Phones
There are three types of phones located around campus. Blue Light Phones, or Emergency Phones, will connect you to the Campus Police emergency line when they are picked up or the button is pressed. Your location will be immediately transmitted to the police, so if you are experiencing an emergency and can’t talk to the person at the other end, stay in the area and the CPs will arrive shortly. Campus phones (identifiable by their lack of coin slots) will let you call any 5-digit MIT number, including institutions that have MIT “tie lines”. See the Useful Phone Numbers chapter or web.mit.edu/is/tel/tielines.html for instructions on how to dial places such as Wellesley, Harvard, and Mass General Hospital. There are also regular pay phones located around campus.
Tunnels
Below is a map of the main underground tunnels at the Institute. They can be useful for going from place to place when it’s raining, or for moving wheeled equipment without encountering stairs (tunnels tend to change elevation via ramps instead). PhysPlant offers subterranean tours of campus through MITAC, or just explore on your own with the map.
Vending Machines
Vending machines are located along the basement of the Infinite Corridor, and in other scattered places in the Institute. Large clusters of vending machines are located at the following locations: Lobby 16, the basement of 10, the basement of the 2/14 intersection, and the 3rd floor of E51.
Coffee machines are located in 16-1, 14-0, 10-0 and, cruelly, on the third floor of W20 — where the 24-hour Coffeehouse used to be.
If you have problems with a vending machine or need a refund, call the answering service at x3 2707.
I am Athena thy Goddess Thou shalt not have false gods before me.
0x1 — Thou shalt not take the name of olc in vain 0x2 — Thou shalt not eat at Lobdell 0x3 — Thou shalt keep holy the hour of Star Trek 0x4 — Honor thy professors, for they are the source of grades 0x5 — Thou shalt not decrease entropy 0x6 — Thou shalt not connect pwr to gnd 0x7 — Thou shalt not sex toads 0x8 — Thou shalt not exceed the speed of light 0x9 — Keep holy the month of IAP for it is a time of rest 0xA — ihtfp 0xB — Thou shalt not sleep 0xC — Thou shalt consume caffeine 0xD — Thou shalt not take pass/fail in vain 0xE — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s hp 0xF — Thou shalt not divide by zero
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
As far as MIT is concerned, Massachusetts Avenue runs north-south, and the Charles River runs east-west. While this is convenient, it isn’t particularly true, as Cambridge enjoys a peculiar immunity from reason.
*dons engineer hat* You can choose your axes however is convenient for solving the problem, provided you use them consistently.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Incidentally, that's why I find it silly when people complain about Windows's window manager treating down as the positive Y direction. Having (0,0) in the bottom left would be just as arbitrary as having it in the top left, so why not use the one that makes it easier for a human to understand?
(There is a historical reason for it, too...the beam of a CRT typically starts drawing from the top left corner.)
Prediction: Doppio is able to utilize a type of weaker sub-Stand of King Crimson called Epitaph (エピタフ Epitafu?). The same face that appears on King Crimson's forehead (Epitaph) appears on Doppio's.
With Epitaph, Doppio can utilize King Crimson's hands as his own.
Epitaph also gives Doppio a preview of what will occur in the next ten seconds, allowing him to react and defend himself accordingly. As stated by Diavolo; no matter what, the prediction cannot be prevented (only the ability of Gold Experience Requiem has been shown to bypass this).
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
please stop mocking benedict cumberbatch for the way he looks, this will have dire ramifications for earth’s relationship with sur’kesh and all other salarian planets. He is an ambassador to this planet and if humans ever want a seat on the council they’re going to have to learn to stop mocking other species for their appearances
Incidentally, that's why I find it silly when people complain about Windows's window manager treating down as the positive Y direction. Having (0,0) in the bottom left would be just as arbitrary as having it in the top left, so why not use the one that makes it easier for a human to understand?
(There is a historical reason for it, too...the beam of a CRT typically starts drawing from the top left corner.)
there's a number of systems and applications (as in computer progs and as in uses in society) that start numbering y axis from far to near or top to bottom
the time zen pencils fucking quoted ayn rand without having any idea who ayn rand actually was or what philosophy she created and revealed that they basically took famous quotes at random to build comics around was really, really fucking funny
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oh well whatever
why
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
soccer = very chaotic and hard to control (i scored two goals for the opposing team once!), it's okay
borderless platform = frustrating, not very fun
As far as MIT is concerned, Massachusetts Avenue runs north-south, and the Charles River runs east-west. While this is convenient, it isn’t particularly true, as Cambridge enjoys a peculiar immunity from reason. The Charles River runs north-south, east-west and (again) north-south near MIT; and both Mass Ave and the Red Line (which supposedly follows Mass Ave) angle around so much that nobody even bothers to give objective directions to anywhere.
In this section, “north” means “up Mass Ave towards Central Square”; “south” means “towards the river, where the Hahvard bridge is”; “east” means “also towards the river, but where the Longfellow Bridge is”; and “west” means “also also towards the river, but along Vassar Street.”
MIT’s main campus is quite compact and often confusing to navigate, with tunnels, passageways, and cleverly-hidden hallways. If you’re new to the place, you could try walking around and getting lost once or twice just to get the hang of it, or you could get an overview by taking an Information Center tour. Tours are given at 10am and 2pm.
Nearly everything at MIT is referred to by number, and places are no exception. The general formula for a room number is x-yzz, where x is the building number, y indicates the floor where the room is located, and zz is the number of the room on that floor.
Exceptions abound for everything. Building 54 is 21 stories tall, so its upper rooms have 4-digit numbers: 54-100 is on the first floor, 54-1100 would be on the eleventh. However, the “first” floor of 54 occupies the 3rd & 4th stories of the building - apparently because Cambridge building codes restrict the number of floors in a building, but not the height. (There are a few other places on campus that has 4-digit room numbers, but that’s left as an exercise for the reader.)
All buildings at MIT are numbered according to their location. This is not to imply that the numbering makes sense, but rather that there is a method to it. Building numbers have an indicative prefix:
• M or none: Main Campus. The area enclosed by Ames St, the train tracks, and Mass Ave. Athena Clusters on main campus are prefixed with an M, as in “m38 cluster”; this occasionally carries over in conversation.
• W: Buildings west of main campus, but south of the train tracks.
• NW: Buildings west of Mass Ave but north of the train tracks.
• N: Buildings north of the train tracks, but between Mass Ave, and Main Street.
• NE: Buildings north of Main Street but west of 3rd Street.
• E: Buildings east of Ames Street and south of Main Street, plus E70.
Two anomalies are Building 46, which straddles the train tracks and thus the N/M boundary; and Building E70, which is north of Main Street (and of NE18, NE20, and NE25) but isn’t called NE70.
Plenty of other strange situations exist, due to the layout of Cambridge proper: N57 is farther west than a lot of W and NW buildings; NE49 is farther west than half of main campus and the N buildings; the same train tracks are both east of half the NE buildings and south of all the N buildings; etc, etc.
Some building numbers have suffixes, usually denoting nearby or connected subdivisions (7 & 7A, for example). An exception is Building 14, which doesn’t really exist above ground; it is the composition of buildings 14N, 14E, 14S, 14W and the courtyard enclosed by the buildings. Building 32 is also notable in that the suffix letter appears as part of the room number, rather than the building number (32-Gyyy not 32G-yyy).
Tunnels exist between buildings 14 & 18; 18 & 54; 54 & 56; 26 & 32; 66 & 68; 68 & E17/E18/E19; between the parallels of East Campus (for EC residents); and between New House and MacGregor (for New House residents only). See map for details.
Basements otherwise connect where two buildings meet. They can be handy in bad weather or to avoid “rush hour traffic” at the top of the hour. Be careful of floor changes — in going from one building to the next, a ramp or a few steps may mean you’ve gone up or down a floor. The Infinite Corridor traffic can be bypassed on the 2nd, 3rd, or basement levels. It may be more convenient, depending on your destination, to walk through Killian Court, or along the street outside building 13.
Notice that buildings to the East (2,4,6,8) and West (1,3,5,7) of Killian Court are symmetric, except for Lobby 7.
The doors to the following buildings are always unlocked: 7, 8, 16, 39, and W20, the Student Center. Doors are usually kept open until 11pm in buildings 13, 14, 24, 56, Kresge and the Chapel.
Tips:
• You can get from 77 Mass Ave to within 100 feet of the Kendall T stop without ever going outside.
• Tired of waiting for the slow elevators in Lobby 10 or Lobby 7? If you want to go to the 4th floor of the main buildings, take the lobby 16 elevators to the 5th floor and turn left. You will find yourself on the 4th floor of the main buildings.
Can’t get there from here:
• The 2nd floor of 13 does not connect to the main buildings.
• The 1st floor of 9 does not connect to the main buildings.
• The 3rd floor of 9 does not connect to building 7. It used to, until the Rotch library was built. It’s worth a visit.
• Be careful of the elevators in 4 and 6. The door on one floor is blocked by a file cabinet. Try to figure out which floor.
• The 1st and 2nd floors of 36 do not connect to 32.
• There are no tunnels between dorms and academic buildings, despite what the upperclassmen may tell you.
• Your MIT ID card will not let you access Buildings 18 or 68, nor the upper floors of 16 or 54, unless you work there.
Where is...
• the Secret Ninja Courtyard: the courtyard bounded by 8, 6, 2 and 4. Accessible from the basement level.
• the Secret Ninja Parking Lot: the courtyard bounded by 7, 5, 3 and 1. Accessible via road, or the basement level.
• the Fishbowl: Student Services Center area (named after the Fishbowl Cluster which was removed to make way for the SSC).
• Transparent Horizon: The sculpture between the two parallels of East Campus and 66.
• Fred T. Dorm (“Fred”, for short): East Campus
• the Great Sail: Alexander Calder’s large metal sculpture between Walker, 14, 18, and the West Parallel of EC (properly known as the Big Sail).
• the Dot: The circle of grass in front of the Green Building (officially named McDermott Court).
• the Green Building: 54
• the Bio Building: 68
• Walker: 50
• Hayden: 14
• Networks: Courses
• Courses: Alpine Bagel Company
• Tosci’s: the front of W20 where Arrow Street Crepes was.
• Anna’s Taqueria: what filled in the space where Arrow Street Crepes was.
• the Stata Center: 32
• the Two Towers: 32-D (Minas Tirith) and 32-G (Minas Morgul).
• the Z-Center, Dupont, and Johnson: the sweaty complex west of W20.
• Briggs field: the giant field west of Kresge.
• the nuclear reactor (NW12): the blue dome west of Mass Ave, just north of the train tracks.
• the MIT Museum (N52): at the corner of Mass Ave and Front St.
whereis.mit.edu and floorplans.mit.edu can be useful references for other such questions.
Recent changes to MIT’s campus
Building 20 was demolished in 1998, and Building 32 erected on the same spot. E10 and E20 were torn down in 2001 to make way for E14, the Media Lab Extension project, which has been postponed for lack of funds. Building 45 was recycled in 2004 to make way for Building 46 — the McGovern Institute for Brain & Cognitive Science — which is due to open in 2005. The “(Far) East Campus Project”, currently unscheduled, is slated to create a “vibrant community” for Sloanies.
Building 32 (the Stata Center) is complicated. The building officially consists of two nine-story towers sharing a two-story base, and also includes three underground floors with 678 parking spaces. However, the lower four floors of the towers (that is, the third through sixth floors of 32) are also connected, though only the fourth floor rooms are numbered with their tower designations. The towers, much like the overall complex, are named after major donors: the eastern tower after Bill Gates, the western one after Alexander Dreyfoos, and are numbered 32-G and 32-D. Amusingly, the two towers are also called Minas Morgul (32-G) and Minas Tirith (32-D) by their inhabitants.
There are five exterior entrances to Building 32: on Vassar Street by 36; between 36 and 26; just west of 57 (the Alumni Pool); and two on the eastern side.
Here are a few guidelines for finding a bathroom quickly. On the main corridor, lavatories are stacked vertically, men’s above women’s and vice versa. They normally occur at the junction of two buildings — for instance, 3 101, which is a women’s room. In the other main buildings, a similar situation applies, with bathrooms occurring at the ends of buildings or just before (or after) a corner. Example: 1-101 is a men’s room. In the newer buildings, men’s and women’s rooms are usually close together and either centrally or peripherally located. The notable exception is Building 14 with men’s rooms at the western end, women’s rooms at the eastern end, and none on the first floor. Check the corridors for water fountains. Where there is a fountain, a bathroom usually isn’t far away.
Card Readers
Many doors on campus have card readers that will allow you to use your MIT card to unlock the door. The card readers have three lights on them. A flashing green light means the lock is inactive, and the door can be opened by pushing or pulling as appropriate. A solid yellow light means you must swipe your card to open the door. A pattern that flashes red-green, yellow means that the door is being held open. If you swipe your card, and see a green light (usually accompanied by an audible click), the door has been unlocked by your card. If you swipe your card and see a red light, it means that you are not authorized to use that door. Contact the
Card Office if you think you should be able to use it. If you see a rapidly flashing red light after swiping, it means your card could not be read correctly, or that the reader is broken.
Phones
There are three types of phones located around campus. Blue Light Phones, or Emergency Phones, will connect you to the Campus Police emergency line when they are picked up or the button is pressed. Your location will be immediately transmitted to the police, so if you are experiencing an emergency and can’t talk to the person at the other end, stay in the area and the CPs will arrive shortly. Campus phones (identifiable by their lack of coin slots) will let you call any 5-digit MIT number, including institutions that have MIT “tie lines”. See the Useful Phone Numbers chapter or web.mit.edu/is/tel/tielines.html for instructions on how to dial places such as Wellesley, Harvard, and Mass General Hospital. There are also regular pay phones located around campus.
Tunnels
Below is a map of the main underground tunnels at the Institute. They can be useful for going from place to place when it’s raining, or for moving wheeled equipment without encountering stairs (tunnels tend to change elevation via ramps instead). PhysPlant offers subterranean tours of campus through MITAC, or just explore on your own with the map.
Vending Machines
Vending machines are located along the basement of the Infinite Corridor, and in other scattered places in the Institute. Large clusters of vending machines are located at the following locations: Lobby 16, the basement of 10, the basement of the 2/14 intersection, and the 3rd floor of E51.
Coffee machines are located in 16-1, 14-0, 10-0 and, cruelly, on the third floor of W20 — where the 24-hour Coffeehouse used to be.
If you have problems with a vending machine or need a refund, call the answering service at x3 2707.
except, not
(*that meme they call the "harlem shake"*)
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