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Attempting to reproduce a map of campus from memory, I realized that my knowledge was very limited to a small triangle bounded roughly by Dunster, the Yard, and the intersection of JFK and Mt. Auburn. My ability to map anything on the "other" side of…

Overall, my map is pretty inaccurate; however, my portrayal of the Harvard Yard and Tercentenary Theatre areas is decent. I think this is because, as a freshman, I spend most of my time around the Yard so that region has become the most meaningful to…

One interesting thing I noted was that I completely turned the map’s orientation. That is, most maps illustrate the river to law school (down-up). For some reason, it was easier to envision the square and the Yard in that way. There was a clear poor…

For my map I started by drawing what to me is Cambridge’s defining feature, the Charles River. From there I added the bridges which I row under every day, and the intersection of JFK and Memorial (the arteries I use to walk to practice). I added Mt.…

This sketch was much more difficult than I expected. However, I was satisfied with my final product. I was aware of some potential errors at the outset. For example, I knew that I would underestimate the distance from the Yard to Radcliffe Quad. Of…

In completing the assignment, it’s obvious that the areas with which we are most familiar come to us easier and larger than others. As a person that both lives in the Quad and completed the majority of studies in the engineering school, my map shows…

After a couple of drafts in which I made several buildings (namely, Annenberg, the Mac Gym, and Widener) the center of my sketch, I realized that I was having problems with the proportion of the streets. Afterwards, I came to rely on the streets as…

For my map, I decided to focus on Harvard as not simply a campus, but rather as a community. I attempted to do this by depicting the various populations that are represented at Harvard: not just the students, faculty, and other Harvard affiliates,…

Looking at a map after attempting to sketch Harvard, I realize that Cambridge is not at all the grid system I ended up drawing. Trying to visualize Cambridge in my mind led to a very organized structure, but looking at a map shows all the curves and…