Blog Entry:
I live at Archstone Apartments behind the south side of UTC so campus is
just out of walking distance. I usually take later classes (early
afternoon around 1pm), drive to and park on the main campus (Hopkins
structure) and walk to class from there. But a friend of mine has the
kind of apartment where anybody is welcome to crash and so I decided to
compare the two routes to class. The driving, parking and walking take
me almost 40 minutes – or even up to an hour if I have to drive around
looking for S-parking. The waking up on campus makes me miss first and
second years here because it takes me less than 15 minutes in comparison.
In fact, I woke up on campus at the time that I was supposed to have
left my apartment to commute. The assignment also made me think about
how there are actually four commonsensical ways for me to get to school –
depending on two things: which way I turn out of my apartment complex and
where I think I can find any parking on the main campus. That, of
course, depends on where I am headed; Peterson Hall is typically the
destination for my first class. But all in all, I just miss being able
to wake up and walk straight to class.
-Charlie Tang