Chinese room

The rest of the day had passed by in a blur, between packing and getting everything ready to go, she was exhausted when she finally crawled into bed around one in the morning. She had barely heard the pounding on her door. Penny grabbed her bathroom and opened the door. The sight of Cole standing there, looking devilishly handsome startled her. What time was it? Penny wondered. She knew she had over slept, vaguely remembering him saying he would pick her up at six A.M. “I’m sorry Cole, I…

shouts. The stupid man had seen me enter it. I ran up the stairs and opened the door to the first floor. There were a series of doors with small numbers written near the top. As I went down the hallway, the numbers increased. At the end, I found the room I was looking for. Unlucky number thirteen. I turned the doorknob, but faced no luck. The door was locked as…

I woke in this unfamiliar place. There was a lot of weird equipment hovering around this room. Blood pressure cuffs were hanging on the desert sand brown walls. Disposable gloves and mask were inside the shelves with other hygienic things. Red bucket is full of revolting puke as many thoughts were gathering in my mind. Standing beside me was this gray heartbeat monitor. Catheter bags were wrapped around my firm thighs. My body was placed on the moveable place. Bleeping machines were annoying…

This includes two pools, a racquetball court, tanning beds, a hot tub, tennis courts, game room activities (pool, darts, etc.) and a washer and dryer in every unit. These amenities are free for use by tenants. When asked how often they utilized these amenities, three answered with 3-5 times a week, and one answered with 0 times per week. When…

Today was dragging on more than usual. I just wanted to leave school and go pick up Ramona. As of today we’ve been dating for a year and I knew I’d never been happier. I just hated the fact that I can’t tell my mom. I love my mom to death but she is so homophobic I knew if I told her that I’m dating a girl she might never talk to me again. I let out an exasperated sigh, making the teacher glare at me, then the final bell finally rings. I waste no time sprinting to my car and going to get…

that houses 10% of MIT students living on campus. Holl designed the building to stick out amongst the very progressive and modern architecture on MIT’s campus. His concept of “Porosity” is used to infuse the city and campus together. Along with the rooms, there are many amenities: movie theater, dining hall, night café, and a recreational facility. The sponge concept is used to have openings for outdoor use and entrances as well as separating the building into “houses”. The openings also allow…

To enter, you have to pass a row of ambulances that are lined up in the front. The automatic door, that is wide enough to fit a car, opens to welcome its guests with a perfumed scent. Many guests attend with their families and some guests even attend with literal broken hearts, in an attempt to repair them. Walking through the corridors, you start to feel a headache from the lights above you that make the corridor too bright for your eyes. The corridor, filled with stale air, has an undertone…

When you arrive at the library at the beginning of your off-period, you expect to leave about an hour later with a significant amount of work accomplished and with seldom left to do that night. However, in the library, there are people with the goal to cause a ruckus and prevent everyone around them from getting their work done. During the period, the librarian yells at least ten times about how loudly everyone is talking and how if the volume is not lowered, silent study will begin. You leave…

Picture a young, reserved girl sitting in a crowd of rowdy children all screaming about inconsequential things, her head ducked down as she explores a fascinating book. Now picture a noisy teenager, getting in trouble for talking too much to her best friend in the class. Think these are two different people? No, both of these girls were once a shadow of me fighting to take control of my personality. I had been quiet my whole life, feeling content with living life in the background. However, come…

don’t even know what they are for, but the one thing I know is that they avoid me from getting ill. I onced tried to avoid consuming those pills but the nurse suddenly caught me jamming them between my mattress and the base. She now never leaves the room until I show her the inside of my mouth to prove I have swallowed them. “Here,” an unusual looking nurse hands me a glass of water this time. She also handed me the pills one by one, unlike the other nurses who give them to me in one helping.…