I am lethally bored in the airport by Aiden H. '28

I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International Airport Terminal C Gate 28 31!!🤮🤮

Today was move-out day, and HRS⁠01 Housing and Residential Services, because why wouldn't we have an acronym for literally every department mandated that we move out by noon. Not realizing this until after I booked my flight, though, I realized I had a very unfortunate amount of time between move-out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the actively raining Boston streets acting like I’m gonna do something all day, or suck it up and spend like 7 hours at the airport. I opted for the latter.

So if you ever wanted to find out how to do the airport Aiden Style™,⁠02 I realize this is so ick but after I put it I have to commit to the bit. (p.s. this is also what I want my signature French fries to be called, if I ever have signature French fries) here’s my advice:

• Get to the airport so early that you learn that you can actually be too early to check your bags (boo)
• Sit at the entrance of the airport near ticketing for 40 minutes while waiting for it to hit 12:50 so you can check your bags for your 6:50 flight
• Play Tetris while waiting
• Get mad you’re not that good at Tetris
• Check to see if any more final grades have come out (they haven’t)
• Eat a pack of blueberry BelVita cookies that you stole from the Maseeh 2 lounge on your way out
• Check your bags
• Ask the ticketing person if you can move to an earlier flight, only to be told no because you bought the cheapest ticket possible (boo)
• For the first time, get excited that security is taking a while (still only 30 minutes though)
• Head straight to Shake Shack
• Get sad you won’t have Shake Shack for 3 months
• Eat Shake Shack and look for summer jobs
• Listen to Charli XCX
• Act like you’re gonna work on your UROP
• Debate paying for more Shake Shack
• Check to see if any more final grades have come out (they haven’t)
• Think about how annoying that 7.03⁠03 Genetics final was
• Realize you haven’t even been at the airport for 2 hours
• Start writing this blog post and then notice you have to get through the whole airport experience before you can post it anyway
• Read the New York Times
• Judge all the people who wear actual day clothes to the airport
• Watch Succession
• Wonder why you didn’t watch Succession sooner
• Walk over to your gate 2.5 hours before boarding starts
• Try to find a water fountain
• Wonder why they would put water fountains everywhere if they don’t work
• Decide to be dehydrated because you’d rather be thirsty than walk back through the terminal with your 1000 lb bags to get water
• Check to see if any more final grades have come out (they haven’t)
• Call your grandma
• Go online shopping
• Give yourself a pep-talk to write so many blogs on this flight because you really want to buy these clothes
• Get a gate change notification from JetBlue and act like life is really hard, even though you have so much time to get there (it’s three gates down) (boo)
• Find water!
• Reread about that time Kayode tried to run to this very airport
• Think about that episode⁠04 Season 8 Episode 18 of Modern Family where Cam and Mitchell take sleeping pills and then walk around the airport really high
• Remember all those news articles about how sitting is the new smoking and try to calculate how many metaphorical packs you’re smoking today between the 6.5 hours of airport sitting plus the 4-5 hour flight
• Watch another episode of Succession
• Check one last time to see if any more final grades have come out (they haven’t)
• Mess with WordPress for like 30 minutes
• Board the flight