<p>im visiting mit on friday. any ideas for stuff to do besides the tour and admissions info session?</p>
<p>0.o</p>
<p>Boston is one mile away!</p>
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<p>Check with the admissions folks to see if there are any classes available for sitting-in-the-back-of, in areas of interest to you. Eat in the student center. Talk to people sitting around. Play frisbee on the oval. See if you can talk anyone into showing you their dorm room. Browse the Coop. Walk the entire length of the Infinite Corridor, reading the bulletin board and counting your steps. :)</p>
<p>lol sounds like AN INCREDIBLY awesome place (infinite corridor nice!)...I'm probably visiting as soon as my dad gets home from his overseas trip.</p>
<p>I agree with everything MM says.</p>
<p>Definitely don't be afraid to ask random people in the hallways for directions/suggestions/favors -- I think you'll be surprised at how many people at MIT are willing to go out of their way to help a clueless prefrosh. :)</p>
<p>Most people like to sit in on General Institute Requirements. Let me know if there are any specific classes you'd like to see, and I can tell you when/where/what the deal is. (Classes offered this term can be found [url=<a href="http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=&style=verbatim&when=C%5Dhere%5B/url">http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=&style=verbatim&when=C]here[/url</a>]. It's a long list.)</p>
<p>Go into the Admissions Room (I forget which room... 10-100? 10-107? Something like that), and have a political discussion with the student working there. In the heat of debate, make a tactless and unapplicable allusion to Clinton's gays in military policy in describing a facet of a MIT student's life and hope that she doesn't catch it.</p>
<p>Because otherwise, you just made a complete fool out of yourself.</p>
<p>when my son visited, the admissions office had a list of classes that pre-frosh could visit. If you wanted to visit something not on the list, that would probably be okay too, but you might have to be prepared to ask permission if its too small to just sit anonymously in the back. Go to the Union, the athletic center, walk along the Charles.</p>
<p>the union? do you mean the student center? also, considering how restrictive and stupid the athletic center employees are, your chances of actually getting inside are a bit questionable. feel free to try, of course.
if you don't feel like eating at lobdeath, feel free to hit up one of the food trucks on mass ave. or back behind the stata center.</p>
<p>oops, student center (it's called the student union at other places). Gee, I didn't know it was hard to get into the athletic center. We did that during CPW and it was pretty open then. (I can see that random times during the year might be very different.) At Orientation they had Lobdell's closed down for what looked like renovation and maybe new restaurants. What's the status on that? Meanwhile, we enjoyed Anna's Taqueria at the student center.</p>
<p>the renovations are finished and i think at least one new vendor's opened up in there, but i'm guessing the food's still a bit pricy. anna's rocks, however.</p>
<p>the athletic center is generally all locked down unless you have a valid id; i'm not sure what walking up and saying "hey, i'm a prospective student, can i take a look around?" will get you.</p>