Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Journey to Class



This class is my second class of the day, unfortunately I have an 8 am class beforehand. That means that everyday I spend the majority of my morning journey getting to that class from my house off campus. The walk from that class to the stadium for this class is significantly shorter, which is great. Although the first walk is longer and colder, I prefer to the walk to this class. The majority of that reason is because on Friday at 8 am there aren't the usual swarms of people roaming campus. In addition to this the sun has just risen and the temperature is usually brisk. This makes my first walk, the walk to my first class, almost a tranquil experience. I also listen to music on this walk, which makes it even more of an experience as opposed to a walk. (as dumb as that sounds)

Then, as I leave that class to trek towards the stadium for this class it seems like the entire school is out. This could probably be attributed to the fact that I have to walk through the oval and that is a very central location on campus. Regardless, it is not the tranquil relaxing experience of the first walk.

That was the first thing I noticed as I analyzed my journey to class. The second was the fact that as I walked from my first class to my second, I almost never looked at other people. I would consider myself an outgoing person, but for some reason on that walk I make no eye-contact with other students, let alone speak to them. I thought this was a little odd considering I probably could say hello or good morning to a few more people.

Lastly, I remembered from my first walk to class how confusing it was, not to actually find the building, but to find the classroom for this class. That is something a little different than most classes. Usually, the building is the hard part and once you get there you can find the room. Here the building is a beacon of campus and the classroom is hidden.


To create my map I combined all of these things:

  1. Lack of tranquility: represented by the chaos of the images overlapping 
  2. Lack of sociability: represented by the person with their back to me
  3. Confusion in location: represented by the signs and the maps.

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