Dylan Wong

Dylan Wong

Although I initially sought out to draw the most accurate map of Harvard I could by memory, my sketch turned out to be a map of what is important to me in my daily life at Harvard. Most evidently, Harvard Yard is the most accurate part of the map and is displayed larger than scale in comparison to other parts of campus. I live in Harvard Yard and walk through it every time I go somewhere, so I knew the location of all the buildings and even had a reasonably accurate representation of the walking paths within the yard. Besides the yard, my map is filled based on places I go frequently. For example, the entire Harvard Square map was built using my knowledge of where restaurants are. I didn’t know exactly how the streets lined up, but I was able to recreate the city blocks after plotting the various restaurants that I knew. I did not know how to draw any of the upperclassmen houses. I drew the houses in the right order, but I had no idea of the shape of the houses and did not line them up with the city streets whatsoever. In the end, I think my map was exactly what I should have expected when I started drawing. It’s representative of what’s important to me: where I live and where I eat.