No, I'm not talking about technology. Though people talking about technology usually makes me break out in hives of panic (programming user interfaces for remotely controlled what now??) nothing scares me more than finding myself in the middle of TECH -yes, THE tech- with no idea where to go. No joke. Even thinking about being lost in tech is enough to induce the rapid forming of beads of cold sweat. To those Tech newbies, tech is the engineering building. It is the height of irony that a building that is designed for -let's face it- the smart people, can be so... hmm... backwards? Let's say unintelligently designed. Like literally, I'm saying totes magotes it defies all rules of strategic/rational planning, space management, logical mobility and directional patterns and/or cues... you get the picture. So I guess all you need to know is.. Tech is an engineer's nightmare. As such an example of non-motivated irrationality should be. But it is actually mostly the enemy of anyone unfortunate enough to not be an engineer and find his or herself in its infinite abyss. WHY? It's not only a 4 story H shaped labyrinth with a tangled spiderwebs worth of pseudopods, the connected little clusters and what department they belong to are completely arbitrary.
Yes, they have a functioning directory. But it is completely unhelpful if you happen not to know the exact name of the room you're looking for, aka LR%&$, and attempting to search by department or class name is basically a futile endeavor: apparently the only thing you can input are exact names and it will only render a match if it is exactly the thing it was programmed to search. Why can't they use like eigenvector algorithms or something like google uses..? Like searching by relevance, links to other frequently searched buildings or "Oh, look, this kind of resembles the name of the building you're looking for!" Instead of stranding you and giving you a phone number (which you can't use inside Tech cause there's no signal grrr...) if the room you were looking for is MR476 and NOT MR467. This could stump you for a good 15 mins. Bring on the cold sweats.
Can you tell I'm speaking from personal experience? Why did they design a building that makes you feel like a trapped hamster inside of a labyrinth specifically designed to drive the unacquainted to frustration, resignation, or even worse.. insanity? Are they trying to keep the dumb hamsters out? Oh... wait. I detect a conspiracy.
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hhaha I def feel like the architects could have made the lives of engineers easier (since they already lead such hard lives).
ReplyDeleteI think I got lost in tech at least 4 times so far, mainly because I can't tell the different between the red and the green stairs and which lead to which hallway and which lead to dead ends.
I learned Tech's claim to fame yesterday: More Miles of Hallway Than Any Other Building in North America Besides the Pentagon.
ReplyDeleteGo Tech. We are so proud.
And yeah. I dropped a class once because it was in Tech and I got lost so many times trying to attend it that it just wasn't worth it anymore.