could u give me some info on MIT.
hi

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It's a big engineering college in Boston.  Why do you ask?

Its not in Boston - its in Cambridge. 

I would say it's in Boston the same way many people in Michigan would say
Disneyland is in Los Angeles. 

The only *real* DisneyPlace is in Orlando.  :-)

I went to MIT. It is in Cambridge. 

But if you're far enough away the distinction between Boston and Cambridge 
blurs, like the distinction between Los Angeles and Anaheim. 

And between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez?

and Detroit and Ann Arbor...

Indeed.  One of Nevil Shute's books included minor scenes at "the University
of Michigan, outside Detroit", for example.  (Or maybe it was "near Detroit";
I'm going from memory.)

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This was in the 1950s.  Shute was nowhere near that early; you're talking
about the 1800s.  And I think it wasn't called the UM then.

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At this point, virl, I feel we've done everything except answer your
question. The problem is that I don't feel that you have conveyed your
question to us. What would you like to know about MIT 
(except for the City it's in, we established that much).

Maybe, that the buildings (at least the original ones) are floating.
MIT is built on Charles River aluvium - mud - so deep piles were put
in, and the buildings sit on these, floating in the mud. The several
different wings are not solidly attached to each other, so differential
settling (or rising) has caused floor-level differences. Some say, it
makes them seasick...;->.

MIT probably has a gopherserver you could get to through either MSU or
UM gophers  ( I don't know how virl is getting here ) and they should
have information there.

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