The Enormous Room

Marley floor has nearly killed me, but it’s also shown me who my family is. It’s an awful material that requires a lot of time and work to be put down smooth and look nice. It’s some sort of vinyl that comes on PVC pipes, rolled up. Taping it down is an unbearably long and grueling process. One particularly hot Wednesday night, I was moving rolls of flooring into the auditorium from the lobby. Andy and I rolled up the flooring, the stubborn plasticky devil. Laszlo, one of the most badass people…

One day there was a girl, her name was Sam. She was your average girl. She was shy but knew how to make someone laugh. She wouldn't really open up to you unless she was comfortable. Public speaking was one thing she could not do. It was her biggest fear and she has avoided it for years. She is in the 10th grade and her fear started 6th grade year when she had a embarrassing experience. She had to go up and present a science project. While she was talking about her project she got sick.…

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…