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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…

I sought to recreate my culinary experience in the Harvard Square area in this map. The eateries are colour coded with green being my strongest recommendation and red being my weakest, while orange is in between. I noticed that I often clustered the…

When drawing Harvard’s campus (from Quad to athletic facilities) from memory, I mapped out the common Harvard shuttle routes and differentiated the buildings from undergraduate living spaces, classrooms, and businesses. After looking at my colored…

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…

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…

Now comparing my sketch to an online map, I think I did well in my sense of direction and orientation of Harvard Square—the general layout of important landscapes such as the River, the Quad, the Yard, the commercial Harvard Square and the Graduate…

The experience of drawing something by memory was incredibly fun. I realized as soon as I began my drawing what areas of the square mattered most to me by how well I remembered them. I'm an athlete concentrating in biology who lives in Dunster. While…

In my sketches, I wanted to capture how the people in the area and lights in the mall shaped my experience—essentially creating “illusions” of what the spaces entailed.

On Newbury St., stores were relatively removed from the street; many had…

In my sketches and observations of Newbury Street and the Prudential Center/Copley Mall, I was interested first and foremost in observing patterns of light and its effect on people’s movement and congregation. On my sketches, I tried to indicate…