Signs

10/01/10

This sign does not represent the route that I walked across campus yesterday evening, but that is partly the point. I know my way around campus intuitively and I could list ten other routes than the one that this sign recommends. At one time, I was grateful for-- and at the mercy of-- these signs. There are 330 acres to roam and back in the early days I would find myself lugging heavy bags of books around the perimeter failing to register opportunities to cut-through...Since then, unintentionally, I've become somewhat of an expert guide: leading campus tours and constructing make-shift signs across campus for various events. Today is the start of term so there will be some lost-looking faces of students who are perhaps here for a term or starting lengthy postgrad courses. I'm sure signs such as these will become redundant to those students too. They'll pale into insignifance as their knowledge of the place increases & like me, they'll start to form their own personalized routes from a-b.