The other spaces are unchanged, but occupied by unfamiliar cars whose makes and models you don’t recognize. Every once in a while, the spot just isn’t there at all. A few times, it was a police car once, an Airgas truck. Some days, there’s a car in your reserved parking spot.If the course 4 students have fractal armies of homunculi helping them, maybe they won’t have to work so hard. Somewhere inside it, there’s a scale model of you, and a scale model of the model. There’s a scale model of Building 7 outside Steam Cafe.That was CGI, right? Some nights you aren’t sure. There was a video showing the Great Dome opening up and swarms of drones flying out of it.In the morning a Hubway station has sprouted in its place. It’s painted white and seems to be melting into the ground. There’s a bike locked to a lamppost, surrounded by flowers.You swear the trees move around when you aren’t looking, especially the ones near the course 20 buildings.The tourists are themselves attractions for other tourists. A passing duck tour points out the buses.A convoy of Korean tour buses waits eternally along Mass Ave.
There’s an endless line of parents and tourists waiting to take photos in The Alchemist. They want to take a photo in The Alchemist. You suspect the drains connect directly back to the roof. The rest spills down onto the sidewalks and into storm drains. They use some of the water to flush the toilets.
The windows of the Green Building flicker in your peripheral vision.You have just crossed the boundary between sleeping and waking but you don’t know in which direction. You sit back in your chair after problem 3 to stretch. Your second class is having an exam, and it seems to be going well. You wake up to your alarm in bed and go to your first class.The classmate you’re talking to says he’s a HASS major.
You’re pretty sure your resume has a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you at Career Fair are software firms so maybe you’re wrong. You tell them it’s because of residual pollution and chemicals in the mud. You tell the freshmen at the sailing pavilion that the river water is perfectly safe, but they must never disturb the mud of the riverbed.One of the branches coming off that is Felidae. Kingdom Animalia only has one line coming out of it: Pisces. You ask your bio major friend for some help with taxonomy.You can’t remember what it stands for anymore, but still you whisper it. You find yourself whispering ‘IHTFP’ at random moments. The poster on the bulletin board says ‘IHTFP’.Your friends can’t tell if you’re laughing or crying. You’re not sure who ‘they’ are, but you know you’re stuck here. You write an opinion piece in the Tech to complain. The administration has announced that all GRTs will be replaced with ravenous bears. The administration has announced new security procedures. The administration has announced changes to the dining plans.You look down and see the scrawled marker: “Halfway to Hell”. You’re walking back from Boston across the Harvard Bridge.Each one has more problems than the last. You walk down the stairs, and exit on the top floor. You return to the first floor and walk to the other tower. You try to find your professor’s office in the Stata Center.The chalkboard is already covered in equations. You lay down for a 15-minute nap, and wake up a day later.