Oh yes, I just remembered more or less at random that I meant to explain this reference and then didn't:
half-dragon queen of lost MIThenge - The original Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus is a cluster of 10 buildings, imaginatively named Building 1 through Building 10, which were all (with the curious exception of Building 9) interconnected and arranged in a symmetrical pattern; it can still be seen buried in the midst of the much more built-up modern campus. (The symmetry has been broken somewhat since construction by the growth of the campus, and by the addition of extensions to Buildings 6 and 7 that aren't mirrored on Buildings 5 and 8.)
Running through this collection of interconnected buildings is a hallway that starts at the Massachusetts Avenue lobby of Building 7 and continues through Building 3, the rotunda of Building 10, Building 4, and Building 8 (this numbering makes at least some sense if you study the map). This hallway is more than 800 feet long and (when there aren't crowds of people moving around in it) provides an uninterrupted view from one end to the other. MIT people call it the Infinite Corridor. Twice a year, the setting sun is perfectly framed in the door at the Massachusetts Avenue end and can be seen all the way at the far end. This phenomenon is called MIThenge.
Abhi has seen what remains of the Infinite Corridor, but her uncle Kalpesh (MIT class of 2024) had to tell her about MIThenge. The Fog bombarded Building 7 during the Hundred-Day War—no one is entirely sure why, beyond the logical assumption that their reasoning is more likely to have involved the Roshenow Kendall Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory than, say, the Center for Reflective Community Practices—and the emergency repairs blocked off that end of the hallway. There is hope for its restoration, but in Abhi's time the priorities are elsewhere. (It will, in fact, be repaired in the 2070s.)
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