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[badseed1980]

OMG! MIT has secret passages! Well, ok, they're not really secret. But so many buildings are connected BELOW ground level, through basement tunnels, I had no idea. I thought the Infinite Corridor was neat, but I didn't know that I could get all the way from my current building to my new building without going outside once. Wow! And they extend to many more buildings as well. This is pretty exciting to me. I guess I'm easily entertained. :)

Man, 4pm and already I'm hungry. Oy.

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[mzwyndi.livejournal.com]

We have a lot of those, too. Used to be The Thing To Do for colleges in cold climates, so you didn't have to clear the walkways aboveground when it snows!

[leenah.livejournal.com]

oh, the walkways still must be cleared. trust me on that. (i work in facilities.)

the tunnels are good for pushing carts of lab cruft from one lab to another. :) they don't go quite EVERYWHERE, particularly over here to the 'rented' part of campus.

somewhere around the basement of the green bldg (that's the TALL one in the middle by the green dot) there are rooms of rocks. well, they might be cleared out by now, but when i first started here a friend took me into the rock rooms because he knew i'd think they were nifty. we geeks think alike. :)

[mzwyndi.livejournal.com]

*nod* We have to clear the walks nowadays, too. But the stories from the old folks are that years ago, they didn't bother. Of course, we don't get your level of snow, either.

[j4yx0r.livejournal.com]

I love stuff like that! The URI Campus in Kingstown does something very similar. It's creepy and fun. It's like I'm inside Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere or something. Have you ever explored the tunnels under Fort Adams in Jamestown?

~j

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

No, but I've been to Fort Wetherill, which is really nifty. Lots of interesting graffiti.

[septembervirgin.livejournal.com]

Not only that but there is an underground chamber directly beneath the enterance that faces Mass Ave, I think with the writing "No Toad Sexing" nearby or within that chamber. My memory of it is spotted.

[mizdarkgirl.livejournal.com]

There are old tunnels that connect that used to connect the hospitals in Longwood. A tunnel in the Harvard Morgue can get you to the storage room in the RamRod (or whatever they call it now)

The Chicago Flood of 1992 was caused by old tunnels flooding.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Flood

The Boston Underfoot used to do tours of old subways but I don't think they do anymore...

Informally, others do
http://www.weeklydig.com/articles/in_the_belly_of_the_bean

[septembervirgin.livejournal.com]

Yes. There are locked doors and please be advised that campus police has been unfriendly in the past to interlopers (especially if they try to sleep over).

[brontosproximo.livejournal.com]

There are unused tunnels under UMass Lowell too.

Not that I've ever been in them *wink*.

[etainwilson.livejournal.com]

Now that is cool!

[etainwilson.livejournal.com]

PS there are also tunnels under the city of Philadelphia.