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14S-100: Harry plans his next adventure using the Stein Club Map Room’s topographic map collection. The Map Room is also a nice, secluded place to study.

4-332: Harry defiesp physics by levitating a book in the physics library in building 2.

Michael Lo ’12 of hits a pike during MIT bboy crew Imobilare’s cypher at Tuesday night’s orientation event. Imobilare’s performance was part of a series of short exhibitions by MIT dance groups. The event, which showc...

3-310: Instead of a magical slide to keep boys out, the Margaret Cheney room asks for a code to enter. Harry won’t be hanging out here anymore.

E14-6: Harry contemplates anti-Voldemort tactics in the penthouse conference room of the New Media Lab.

W20-429, 431, 428: Harry paints a magical moving portrait of Susan Hockfield in the Student Art Association Studio.

10-500: Harry studies for his O.W.L.s in the reading room of the Barker Engineering Library.

W20-483: Harry tries out muggle photography at The Tech, a publication that is infinitely superior to The Daily Prophet.

32-4: This outdoor tunnel doesn’t lead to the Shrieking Shack... just an exit facing Building 16.

Harry stares out at the Boston skyline from a mysterious balcony. Where is he? Hint: this is a dormitory.

Harry Potter (Benjamin N. Bell ’14) explores MIT with the help of the Marauder’s Map.

Harry visits one of the underground tunnels near building 66. Chairs are almost as good as brooms!

Room 4-160: Harry prepares the opening act to a Weird Sisters concert. Building 4 practice rooms are accessible only to performance ensembles members, but three piano rooms in W20 are free to the entire MIT community.

Supercomputers stand in one of the machine rooms at CSAIL on Wednesday. After two water chillers at the central cooling plant failed on Tuesday, CSAIL was forced to shut down inessential machines to avoid overheating....

Party-seekers dance late Sunday night at the East Side Party, held in the East Campus Courtyard.

Danny Chiao ’14 (left) and George T. Cheng ’14 add the final gummy bears to a gingerbread house during the “Games, games… Graham Simmons?” REX event held by Simmons Hall on Sunday night.