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My sketch is a very geometrically organized sketch of Harvard’s campus, as I thought it would be mentally clearer to represent complex areas and buildings as squares or rectangles. Additionally, my map is focused on and generated through two main…

Compared to the Google Maps image of Harvard’s campus, I think my depiction of Harvard Yard and the River houses is pretty accurate. I couldn't recall several names of streets, and didn’t accurately capture their curvature. However, I knew the…

I’d say my map is fairly accurate, though not at all to scale. The areas of Harvard Square that I know well are quite detailed; I found while doing the assignment that I know almost every building in the four square blocks between the yard and the…

My initial hypothesis going into this exercise was that I would be able to clearly draw the places that I frequent most. Though this proved mostly true, some familiar spaces were difficult to remember and did not make it onto my map. For example,…

This assignment certainly posed a unique challenge. It was fascinating to see how my mind is concentrated on the areas that I know best and how to get between them. My high school commute was prominently featured, as transportation hubs featured…

Comparing my map to an official campus one, it looks like my sense of where the streets are is a bit off. Before making this map, I walked around campus consciously, taking special note of where streets were in relation to one another so that I could…

The major issues that I faced with my sketch were scaling and framing. I began with the athletics complex, but the mental diagram I had pictured the athletic facilities as much more prominent than they actually are (although maybe it was just because…

This process of sketching Harvard’s Map was sketching down the streets that I frequently use first. The athletic complex all the way up to Harvard Square thought JFK street was fairly easy as it were to draw the riverside dorms and Quincy Street.…

Comparing my sketch and an overhead image of Harvard Square on Google Maps, I have several major takeaways. First of all, my general conception of proportion is generally good. The size of Cambridge Common relative to the size of Harvard Yard on my…

When thinking about my sketch, I started with Harvard Yard because that seemed like the center of campus to me. As I was drawing, I realized that I tended to group certain things together. For instance, I grouped all of the parallel streets between…