Sarah Zaghouani

Sarah Zaghouani

As it turns out, my map is pretty inaccurate, but the relative location of each school is more or less correct. The most obvious inaccuracy is in the intricacies of all of the roads that connect Harvard Square. The most accurate part of my map with regards to roads is around the river houses, which makes sense, as I walk those roads every day. Additionally, in looking at the actual map of campus, I realized that there are quite a few more areas of heavy foot traffic than what I represented on my own map, but, again, I only depicted that foot traffic that corresponded to my daily route, more or less. Additionally, the way that I proportioned the map, the part of campus (Yard and River Houses) take up a disproportionate amount of space compared to the parts of campus that I almost never visit (the Quad, Law School, the Stadium and Business School campus). Moreover, it seems that as far as categories of building spaces go, the number of dorms that I drew is closest to the actual number of dorms that exist, whereas I vastly underrepresented every other type of building. This again hints at the fact that I am an undergraduate, and reflects where I spend most of my time. What I took away from this is that I have a very skewed perception of campus, and I should get out more!