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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…

My map is quite accurate with regards to the buildings of the Yard, and relatively accurate with respect to the river house area of campus. However, it fell fall short of proportions on the location of the Quad. I was not familiar with the path to…

The sketch that I made was for the most part accurate in the depiction of known regions yet struggled on its representation of places not usually traveled. For example, the yard is represented fairly accurately down to the walking paths yet the law…

Comparing the sketch I drew from memory for this assignment to a map I bought when I arrived here in Cambridge three weeks ago, it stroke me that there were vast areas on the campus and in the city I did not know – let alone how they looked like.…

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…

My map was focused on me and therefore decent for the paths I take most frequently—upperclassmen houses, buildings I have classes in, and stores and restaurants that I visit. I also included certain markers that I use. For instance, on my way to the…

Christopher Chen The most difficult and different part of the sketch was getting the physical shapes, sizes, and relative orientations of the map features correctly. For example, most of the buildings are actually smaller than I expected. I am pretty…

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…

My sketch was based on a diagram relating to major landmarks and centralities and how they relate to each other. I found myself starting to draw the landmarks that meant the most to me at my earliest days art Harvard, such as by drawing Harvard Yard…

I started off the sketch quite unconfident in my memory of Harvard’s campus (and also in my ability to draw). However, comparing it to Google’s map of Harvard, my sketch does capture the locations of the Harvard Law School, the Yard, the Quad, and…