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The Garden of Constants

I don't spend a lot of time at OSU because I don't live on campus.  But when I am here, I spend most of my time by the Numbers.  Most of my classes are right next to here, so it's just easy for me to hang out in between my classes here. The numbers are just so random to me, I feel like they aren't supposed to be there but it's just right.  The numbers are big and scattered all over the grass.  At first I thought the garden was missing a few numbers, but turns out a couple of them are laying down, like the number 8 and number 6 (which you don't see in the picture).  Also, numbers : 1, 4, 6, and 8 are different colors from 2, 3, 5, and 7.  I don't know why that is, but it makes it very unique.  I feel that people are encouraged to interact within this space for the same reason I am, it's close to most of our classes.  

The Rhetoric of Place and Identity

My initial thoughts about place and identity are that where you are and where you are from help define who you are. Growing up, I lived in a little neighborhood of town houses. The neighborhood was shaped into a square, it was small so that meant I knew where I was, and was never too far away from home. It also meant that I knew all the kids that lived there. We were all different. Different races and different interests, but we all still hung out. Even to this day, I’m still friends with the same people. We grew up and still like different things, I'm into hip-hop/rap, and my best friend likes alternative rock, but where we lived and who we became friends with helped us learn to not judge others because of their differences. I've grown up and made so many new friends, high school really put a toll on all those relationships. I never had problems with anyone, but since I was friends with so many people, there was bound to be drama between my friends. High school is where you start to see people break off into little "cliques". I was always the one to jump around and meet new people. But having so many friends like that just made me the kind of person that doesn't get into anyone else's business, or spread rumors. Say if two groups of my friends weren't getting along, I'm not the one to take sides. Growing up in that small neighborhood with those different kinds of people, made me into the kind of person I am today.