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Posted on March 24, 2014, 5:06 pm, M spotting F (Dorm). 24 comments.

I saw you... Christina, about 15 years ago, the first time. I was pretending to play volleyball in the courtyard when you walked by. I looked at you, you looked at me, you gave me that look that I always confuse for recognition, and I couldn't remember where I saw you before.

I must have impressed you when I said something smart in some HASS class. You approached me (!) while I was getting lunch at Walker, but I totally spazzed and blew you off.

I thought I'd see you more over the years, but I didn't. I lived one floor beneath you, but still. There were maybe two or three other times we crossed paths - never in class - but I couldn't speak when I was around you, even when you were sitting all alone outside Kresge that one time. Damn.

You were probably too cool for me. You lived on the cool floor. I went up there to visit once or twice, but I don't think I would have recognized you in the black light.

It killed me when they used your pretty face on a flyer to promote something. Was it a party? Were you running for office? I can't remember. I wish I would have stolen one.

I saw your name on a list of people who couldn't be tracked down for the reunion. It figures - you were probably off on some adventure. I knew you were too cool.

Then I saw in the Class Notes that you got married. Good for you. So did I. It's weird how things turn out sometimes.

  1. Posted at March 25, 2014, 4:14 pm by F

    This is really sad and touching and nerdy... all at the same time. Ah! I can't say that I feel you and I don't know whether I should be sorry but I am.

    ~Not Christina.
    Just a current MIT student on break

  2. Posted at March 25, 2014, 8:03 pm by F MIT

    Why did you get married when you're clearly still pining for someone else?

    I hope this is a troll.

  3. Posted at March 25, 2014, 8:32 pm by M

    @2 a lot of marriages are like this

  4. Posted at March 25, 2014, 10:05 pm by F MIT

    Guess that explains the divorce rate

  5. Posted at March 26, 2014, 1:48 am by M

    mary mary quite contrary
    we get bored so we get married
    just like dust we settle in this town
    on this broken merry go round
    and round and round we go
    where it stops nobody knows
    and it aint slowin down
    on this merry go round

  6. Posted at March 26, 2014, 2:21 pm by M

    It's not like he spent the rest of his life alone dreaming about what could have been. The story ended happily for both of them. I can still recall people from my past fondly without wanting to see them again.

    Anonymous confessionals like this didn't exist 15 years ago. I'd like to see more alumni contributions. What kind of people do we become?

  7. Posted at March 26, 2014, 8:22 pm by F MIT

    I hope that 15 years after graduation, I have better things to do than talk about my long lost love on a college internet forum.

  8. Posted at March 29, 2014, 1:37 am by F

    Emotional. Thanks for posting.

  9. Posted at March 29, 2014, 7:12 pm by M

    ayo u sum marshmallow ass nigga

  10. Posted at March 31, 2014, 9:02 pm by F MIT

    @9 +1

  11. Posted at April 3, 2014, 12:02 am by M

    Seems generous of the OP to share this cautionary tale with current students - y'all work up the courage to go talk to your own 'Cristina'

    And, really? The cool floor had black lighting 15 years ago - seems like then, by definition, it can't be cool anymore.

  12. Posted at April 3, 2014, 11:02 am by M MIT

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRB0i9-AUQs

    The fact that it's an AXE commercial aside, this is pretty cool..

  13. Posted at April 3, 2014, 3:59 pm by F

    This is so adorable! Thanks for posting alum!

  14. Posted at April 3, 2014, 6:47 pm by F

    "Shaming someone for shaming someone is bad!" is the new "Intolerance of intolerance is bad!"

    And it's not an equivalent situation. "Girl who laughs annoyingly in 6.S02" is way more specific/can more easily be narrowed to a person publicly than "Girl in 6.S02 who is annoyed". Unless there are only three girls in 6.S02 this term.

    OP is a bitch. Please tell me where you'd use that word if not here.

  15. Posted at April 3, 2014, 7:57 pm by F MIT

    Totally wrote that comment in the wrong window. *is dumb, reposts elsewhere*

  16. Posted at April 5, 2014, 7:59 pm by M

    @14 stop being a hard cunt, I'll fite u irl bitch

  17. Posted at April 6, 2014, 12:39 am by F MIT

    @16 - Wow, you're such a badass. I genuinely believe you could take anyone down, otherwise you wouldn't have posted anonymously on the internet without leaving contact information!

  18. Posted at April 6, 2014, 10:47 am by F

    @17 looks like someone's self esteem needs a little high today and i'll break down you're argument down to a brothel

  19. Posted at April 6, 2014, 5:18 pm by F MIT

    @18

    *your, moron

  20. Posted at April 9, 2014, 8:09 am by F Mail

    There is something very special about this post, so beautiful and tragic. It was virtually the first time I realized there were other students, just like us, who went to MIT and were shaped by the same surroundings and experiences. More than ever, it made me want to embrace MIT culture and feel connected to its roots.

    At the same time, I am sorry for some of the people who commented here and even more for the alumni who might see it. Such a romantic entry by an alum and such shallow derisive comments by current students: a stark disappointing contrast!

  21. Posted at April 9, 2014, 11:23 am by M MIT

    @19 woman the fuck up and get back to rape jokes

  22. Posted at April 9, 2014, 5:53 pm by F MIT

    @20 I feel worse for the alum still pining and, especially, for his wife.

  23. Posted at May 5, 2014, 11:03 pm by F

    still a better love story than twilight

  24. Posted at May 6, 2014, 7:58 pm by M

    @20 Alum here (procrastinating on sending an email to my landlord).

    This isn't any better or worse than the stuff that was on ISY when I was a student. And honestly, I don't see why it would be. What kind of person am I?
    Well, my life is more balanced. I actually get to the gym regularly. I sleep really fucking regularly. I feel sad that I'm not surrounded by the constant intellectual curiosity that I was at MIT.

    I feel sad that I don't think I got nearly the education at MIT that I could have. I never did any cool projects. My sleep schedule got all out of whack. I got distracted on the internet too often and never figured out how to manage that. I still haven't. Overall, I think I squandered my time here and think I would have been far better off taking a gap year working and learning how to be better at living life and managing myself before I came.

    I'm usually pretty happy actually. But I occasionally check ISY when I'm feeling distractible or regretful.