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You know you are going to MIT when...
- Going to bed before 3 is considered sleeping early.
- People waking up is an indication that you need to hurry up and finish your problem sets.
- Your house is building its own mp3 server.
- You use computers to heat your room.
- The nearest computer is easier to find than the nearest bathroom.
- You actually used one of the pickup lines on the Failed Pickup Lines page.
- It succeeded.
- Your house built its own phone system.
- Your coke machine zephyrs you whenever someone buys a coke.
- You think extra digits adds character.
- What doesn't kill you can only make you stronger.
- Biohazard, radiation, eye protection required, and chemical waste signs don't bother you anymore.
- Your primary means of communication is your zephyr class.
- You are annoyed at having to renew Kerberos tickets every 10 hours.
- You run to the nearest cluster if you need the time.
- You take a wrong turn and end up at the Condensed Matter Theory lab.
- Everything in your life from classes to majors to courses are numbered.
- You know all these numbers.
- You know what IHTFP means.
- You were bragging to your friends about having the highest prime factor in your student id.
- People start worshipping you when they find out that your student id IS prime.
- You relate God to a UNIX server.
- You start dropping things out of the side of a building just to hear what it sounds like when they hit the ground.
- You start being able to login in your sleep.
- Your roommates moved out your bed because you never used it.
- You infer the radius of The Dot using a centimeter ruler.
- You wake up in places you don't remember going.
- You punt more classes than you go to.
- More people in lecture are asleep than awake.
- You forget what sunlight looks like.
- Labs are considered social areas.
- Bibles don't refer to religious books.
- Masochism is normal.
- You memorize digits of pi for kicks.
- Prerequisites mean nothing to you.
- You don't let scheduling conflicts stand in your way.
- Everyone you know is Course 6.
- Athena is your one true-love.
- You use dialpad.com to call your parents.
- You dream about MOSFETs.
- You don't dream.
- The uncombed hair look is in.
- You fantasize about Tux the Linux penguin.
- Balancing out the amount of time you spend in each lab becomes a problem.
- Your house rotates who goes to lecture.
- Big companies give out free pizza to attract people to their events.
- You know people who's summer job is to "grow corn" or "build toilets."
- You realize that you could be having an easier time anywhere else and be paying less.
- Who says there's no such thing as a perpetual motion machine?
- You justify not moving as minimizing time-dilation.
- You burst out laughing whenever someone says NAND.
- Your life flashes before your eyes while doing problem sets.
- StarCraft. It's not a game. It's a way of life.
- Oh look. There's something on the Dome again.
- You run and write up an algorithm in Scheme when you find out MATLAB's is too slow.
- April showers brings May snow.
- I'm running out of Greek symbols to use!
- You start seeing the world in Vectors.
- You walk your pet op amp everyday.
- You like to rehash over the days events before killing your processes and rebooting.
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