paths

in all the campuses i've been on in america, there seems to be two kinds of paths. one set of paths is paved, or bricked, or cobbled, and is very official. the other set is a dirt track that has been worn into the grass by students and teachers going directly from building to building, instead of going around those inefficient corners campus landscapers seem to put in.

here, it seems, there is none of that. i walk through two campuses regularly. my high school's, and the college that separates me from the town. where i would usually cut across, an unacknowledged social pressure keeps me off the grass. if 10,000 students haven't cut across the grass to get to the library, i think it might be a presumptuous to do it myself. or maybe i'd start a revolution...