Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Anatomy of a college students life

Anatomy of a college student’s life So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I hadnt been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of crackers one night, it was time to own up to the fact that I was going to have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a few minutes I had placed an order for Hawaiian pizza and a side of cinnamon sticks at Dominos without even having to pick up the phone. But heres the really weird thing: then they started tracking my order. Now, Im used to tracking my Amazon.com shipments via UPS number, but Dominos has brought the concept to a whole new level. I just think this is kind of creepy. The bar corresponding to whats currently going on with your pizza flashes red, and turns solid once its been completed. Then the status text on the bottom updates to say something crazy like, Our delivery specialist Ryan has just placed your pizza in his Domino-mobile as of 6:08 PM. Not only that, this system is apparently patent pending. Does anyone else find this sort of weird, or is it just me? God bless America, or something. In other news, this is what I see when I log in to my MIT libraries account: Thats right. TWELVE. I currently have 12 books checked out of the libraries- plus another 2 from the Boston Public library. (Fun fact: you can get your very own BPL card by showing proof of residence in Massachusetts. All I had to do was bring a credit card statement that had been mailed to my dorm room to the library and they gave me an account. This made me really happy, because Im a super dork who loves libraries.) Where are these books? Strewn all over my floor, obviously. The point of this is thatwell, Im hosed. So Im going to stop writing this blog entry and get back to one of my two 20 page term papers. I will just leave you with this visual of things that are consuming my life right now, in MIT speak:

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