By Pablo Torre and Alex McPhillips

TV and movies may depict Harvard students as a bunch of braniacs who wouldn't know a good time if it clobbered them over the head with an Advanced Physics book, but this image couldn't be further from the truth. While Harvard's academics are a bit more strident than, say, the University of Phoenix, don't  think that the students aren't capable of kicking back and enjoying themselves, whether it be at one of the area's many watering holes or in the famous Harvard Yard. Don't believe us? We invited a couple of students to give us the scoop on the real Harvard, the one in Cambridge, not the one created in Hollywood, as we road trip to Harvard.

	Halle Berry won last year's Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Award, and then made out with a cast member during a skit onstage. AP
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Best place to re-create a scene from a movie: The Dunkin' Donuts on Bow Street. Although the storefront has changed since the filming of Good Will Hunting, do what every Harvard guy secretly dreams of doing: picking a fight with an arrogant, long-haired classmate at a bar, getting a British girl's number and slapping the glass of Dunkin' Donuts while screaming, "How do you like them apples?"

Best place to watch guys in drag: The Hasty Pudding Theatricals. For two months every year, the historic student-run theatrical organization puts on a generally hilarious show featuring, yes, an all-male cast and an abundant use of tights. The Pudding also irreverently welcomes a Man and Woman of the Year during that span -- last year's recipients were Halle Berry (who notably made out with a lucky cast member during a skit onstage) and Richard Gere.

Best place to hang out with other wicked smaht people: Lamont Library. While historic Widener Library -- located right in the center of Harvard Yard --attracts hordes of tourists, undergrads flock to Lamont. A social space as much as a library, it stays open 24 hours a day Sunday through Thursday and boasts wireless Internet, cushy chairs, soft lighting, a new cafe and books, apparently.

Best place to indulge the late, late-night munchies: The Quincy Grille. While New England's anachronistic Blue Laws shut down bars and restaurants by 3 a.m., one undergraduate dorm rages against the dying of the light. Located by the courtyard of Quincy House on Plympton Street, the student-run Grille stays open till 4 a.m. on weekends and fries the delicious food for which the beer in your stomach cries.

Best place to embarrass yourself in front of locals: Charlie's Kitchen on Tuesday nights. Town-gown relations are never perfect, but drunken karaoke might help smooth things out. Gather some friends, go to Charlie's and reel in the high-fives after you deliver a mind-bending rendition of I Touch Myself. Then again, you might just get elbowed in the face by a local Cantabridgian singing Pearl Jam (true story).

Best place to pretend you're in a movie: Annenberg Hall. The regal, freshman-only dining hall is arguably the most striking building on campus, but upon seeing it, Harvard is not what first comes to mind. It's unclear what kind of impact an uncanny resemblance to Harry Potter's Hogwarts has on admissions, but we're guessing it probably helps.

Best place to play chess: Harvard Square. The stone chess tables in front of Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square always stay busy. A 52-year-old Harvard dropout called "the Chessmaster" charges passersby two bucks for lessons. If you feel like you've seen it in a movie, you have: in Good Will Hunting, when Matt Damon compares himself to Mozart and Beethoven, you can see the Chessmaster in the background.

You haven't hung out at Harvard until you've drank a Scorpion Bowl from Hong Kong.

Best place to both drink and eat aggressively: The Kong. The illustrious Hong Kong Restaurant & Lounge might play host to more regrettable actions than your average prison, but no one seems to stay away. The bar/lounge upstairs forms immortal bonds between townie and student over Scorpion Bowls (simply, bowls filled with alcohol and various tropical juices), and the downstairs provides Chinese food at affordable prices. (Try not to become addicted to the famous crab rangoons: fried cream cheese and crab meat in appetizer form.)

Best place to get some wicked good chowdah: Legal Sea Foods sells its New England Clam Chowder for $47.95 a gallon. Consuming that much chowdah in one sitting would probably kill a man, but at least he'd die happy. Legal brags that it has served the dish at every Presidential inauguration since 1981.

Best place to get very cheap appetizers and very good beer: Grendel's Den. With half-priced food specials (you need to buy at least three bucks' worth of drinks) every day from 5 to 7:30 p.m. and 9 to 11:30 p.m., you won't find a better deal in Harvard Square. And that's not even counting Sunday night's special dollar menu. The beer might seem unfamiliar to some at first (Paulaner Hefeweizen and Harpoon IPA over Coors Light and Budweiser), but consider it part of your college education.