My experience with creating a map of the school was different, considering I thought I would come up with a better map than I did. I’m one of those people who has a map of campus saved on my phone because I’m anxious and think ill go to the wrong building and needs to check every once in a while to make sure I am indeed going in the correct direction. All this being said, my map did not come out as representative as I thought since the dimensions were all off and led to where the library is supposed to be being cut off. I believe this is because I drew what was most representative to me starting from my routine and specific routes. For instance, I included the G7 lot because I park there and the pathway next to it that passes COB, BH, and eventually psychology is too long or not evenly spaced. I think my mind was moving too fast to remember every building considering the psychology building was an after thought I had to squeeze in and just now am I realizing I forgot the important landmark of the book store. As for the other activity, my experience was strange. I decided to do this with my mom since she was the only one present at home and honestly neither of us really understood what we were doing. We laughed a few times at first and accused each other of moving the pencil, which then led to us each denying it. However, we talked it through and convinced ourselves to relax in hopes the pencil would indeed move itself. Despite our efforts, I believe we both became a bit impatient since it wasn’t quite working and decided to finish with what is pictured. The results are definitely not what I expected, since the samples given were rather large and seem to have flowed better compared to ours. I also believe that it may have reflected what we wanted to happen, since my mom swore I was pulling the pencil towards myself, however I believe she was pushing it toward me, so I’m not confirming she DID move it, but it could have been a self confirmation bias type of situation. Overall, I did not really enjoy this activity since it seemed to be betting on the fact that it would work for everyone, but in my case it didn’t.
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