UM: Buildings

Writing in Psychology Today’s Good Life blog, UM professor Christopher Peterson describes the phenomenon of getting lost in buildings, and what that means as a metaphor for life: “I have been teaching in East Hall at the University of Michigan for a decade. My office is also in this building, as are 95% of the meetings I attend. But when I am inside East Hall, especially its windowless classrooms, I have no idea where I am in relationship to the outside world. In a lecture, I will refer to Ypsilanti or Detroit, and then wave my hand in the direction where I believe these cities to be located. Many students snicker, and tell me I am pointing toward Marquette, or Lansing, or Jackson, or – horrors – Columbus, Ohio.” [Source]