Editing Infinite Corridor (section)

{{short description|Hallway at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}
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[[File:Infinitecorridor.jpg|thumb|The Infinite Corridor is the main pedestrian thoroughfare at MIT (February 2006)]]
[[File:MIT infinite corridor 01.jpg|thumb|Empty Infinite Corridor during [[COVID-19]] lockdown (March 2021)]]
The '''Infinite Corridor'''<ref name="Hapgood">{{cite book|last=Hapgood|first=Fred|title=Up the infinite corridor: MIT and the technological imagination|year=1993|publisher=Addison-Wesley|location=Reading, Mass.|isbn=0-201-08293-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/upinfinitecorrid00hapg}} 203 pp.</ref> is a {{convert|251|meter|adj=on}} hallway<ref>[http://web.mit.edu/planning/www/mithenge.html ''MIT Infinite Corridor Astronomy - MIThenge''], Northeastern University Press, 2004.</ref> that runs through the [[Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology|main buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], specifically parts of the buildings numbered 7, 3, 10, 4, and 8 (from west to east).<ref name=JoyceGehry2004>{{cite book|pages=11–12|title=Building Stata: the design and construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT|author1=Nancy Eleanor Joyce  |author2=Frank O. Gehry |name-list-style=amp |publisher=MIT Press|year=2004|isbn=978-0-262-60061-3}}</ref> 

Twice a year, in mid-November and in late January, the corridor lines up lengthwise with the position of the Sun, causing sunlight to fill the entire corridor.  Named [[#MIThenge|MIThenge]], the event  is celebrated by students, faculty, and staff.<ref name=Coyle1998>{{cite encyclopaedia|article=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|author=Bill Coyle|pages=262|encyclopedia=International dictionary of university histories|editor1=Carol J. Summerfield |editor2=Mary Elizabeth Devine |editor3=Anthony Levi |publisher=Taylor & Francis|date=1998|isbn=978-1-884964-23-7}}</ref>