Infinite(ly Strange) Corridor

Strange things happen in the halls of MIT. Admittedly, it's widely known as a geek school, so you're bound to get some wacky people there... nd you can never overestimate the strangeness of Asian tourists, but some oddities of the past few days surprised even me. (And you know from this blog that there are no shortage of oddities in my life.)

As my friends and I were walking down one of the many, many "corridors" yesterday (actually, two days ago, since it's past midnight now) a lady stepped out from behind one of those frosted doors... and offered us cupcakes. She told us they were vegan cupcakes. Now, I love cupcakes, really, who doesn't? So of course, we couldn't refuse. I mean, they were just so cute! At the time, it didn't seem out of place at all to be offered sweets by a stranger...

Today was even stranger. Ok, so when you walk into MIT from the huge Mass Ave entrance, you find yourself in the "little" dome. If you say anything, or laugh, it echoes, loudly. I guess one of the Asian tourists realized that today, because as we walked towards the dome, we heard singing. Not normal, humdum singing, or even American Idol wannabe singing. No, this was full-on operatic singing. When we finally got to the dome, the singing had stopped, but we spent five minutes curiously looking around, and up, to find the source of the mysterious singing. Just as we were about to leave, one of the tourists not too far from us started his singing again. Gotta give the guy props for having the courage to do that.

<3 Helen