Walking to my class.

Fridays, I have a class at Bush St. I normally take the school bus from 79 New Montgomery because that's where I go down at the Bart. The building has a computer terminal that shows bus schedules around the city - this is one example of how knowledge in the world helps me to get to my next class. But the schedule says that a bus from 79 New Montgomery to Bush will take about 30 minutes, which takes much much longer than just walking towards it.

So anyway, before my first class I researched on how to walk to my building from Montgomery Bart Station - through 511.org. I prepared information like knowing the building number and came up with other information like which street to walk through, what streets to pass by, what street to turn left to, and so on. I wrote them all down because I didn't want to memorize it. The following day, I arrived in class early. Obviously I did not get lost.

For the second class, I did not bring anymore the paper with directions. I think I threw them right after the first class. I didn't memorize the street names either and as you may have noticed, I don't remember the building number of where my class is either. All I know is that I take the exit from the bart on one corner (I don't know which exit it is) and walk towards the street on the left side. I don't remember really how many blocks I had to walk further down. All I know is that I stop as soon as I see the one and only coffee shop in that street. Then I turn left and walk further and further until I see the Academy of Art logo. And then I know, that's my building! I did not really rely much on street names and number of blocks, because that's just too much information. I instead rely on landmarks which are much less and much easier to remember.