iPhone Maps App = Marauder’s Map for Muggles
Like most college students in the Unites States, I go to a public university, UCF, which is home to roughly 60,000 other students. This is a very big difference from the two previous colleges I attended (yes, I’ve transferred twice— it sucks), as one was a very small private college, and the other a half-the-size-of-UCF community college.
It’s been kind of a culture shock the past few weeks trying to get used to the sheer size of the campus, and learning my way around. In the first week, I waited outside of the wrong classroom for a good fifteen minutes wondering if my teacher would ever show up, before realizing that I was not in fact in the Business Administration building where my class was, but in the Business Administration 2 building, which is very different, and made me severely late to class. For the most part, though, I’ve figured out how to get around now, or at least from the parking garage, to my classes and back.
However, as I was leaving class today, life presented me with a new challenge to overcome: rain. Without an umbrella (mine broke last week). My friend and I were very sad to see the tumultuous rain, and even sadder to discover that the Einstein Bagels in our building closed early today because it was Friday. Boo.
But all was not lost. Luckily, my friend has an iPhone. She pulled up her Maps App, and not unlike the Marauder’s Map(if you don’t know what I’m talking about, shame on you, and learn about it here), not only did it show us exactly where we were on campus, but revealed a secret passage way through the connected Engineering Building, that lead us most of the way to the parking garage, without getting wet. All we had to do, was run to the parking garage, which was right across a small parking lot from the building.
Crisis averted. Adventure complete. So now, thanks to the iPhone, I now know a secret (seriously, not many people seemed to know about it, or at least in the building we came from), and significantly drier, way to get my car in the event of a raining emergency.
PS: iPhone picture found here.
