Parking Perspective

Every day when we walk from class to class, we usually follow the same paths.  We loop around buildings, or go through them, and follow the concrete paths that run all around campus like a maze.  To us this is how life always is, however, birds, and even the Penn State squirrels have different perspectives on the world.  Birds can fly high up in the air, and look down upon the world in a way that we usually can't in our everyday lives.  However, one of the best places that we can try to see the world from this different perspective is from the top of one of the parking garages.

The parking garages on campus are all fairly similar.  They are tall rectangular structures with many different levels that people can park their cars on.  All of the parking garages jut up above the other buildings that surround them, and from the top of one you can see all cross campus.  The parking garage I went to was on this night was the HUB deck, which is right beside, you guessed it, the HUB.  From the top of the deck you can look out across the HUB Lawn, White building, South halls, and even up to the life science bridge.

When you look at the world from another perspective, you can see everything in a different light, in this case the moonlight.  At the top of the parking garage, everything looks different from above.  One particular thing that I had never noticed before was that the one roof of the HUB was a wave like shape.  Whenever we look at things from a different perspective we can better understand things such as where people are coming from and how to do things we did not understand before.  When we think about things from other perspectives, the mysteries of the world can start to unravel.

From the top of the parking garage you can look down and see the many paths that snake all around campus that people crowd during the day.  At night these paths are barren of people, but still connect all of the many buildings all around campus.  These paths are like the connections between people, because each path leads to a multitude of different places, like we have an intricate system of relationships.  Sometimes it is important to look at these relationships from above to better see how everything fits together, like a puzzle.

Birds have an interesting view of the world that it is hard for us to ever understand.  Only when we try to think about things from a different perspective, can we begin to better understand things.  This is the basis of the idea of walking in someone else's shoes, as well as the idea behind this blog.  This blog's goal is to look at Penn State from a different perspective, a different light, the moonlight and why the parking garage personifies the idea of looking at things from a different perspective.