It feels good to be right sometimes. Today, I discovered that I was right. Twice.

It all began last semester when I spent a fair amount of time investigating the possibility of building a path across Woodruff Park. After the opening of the Aderhold Learning Center in the Fairlie-Poplar district, GSU students are now travelling across Woodruff Park to go between there and the main campus. The shortest path between these two places cuts right through a grassy portion of Woodruff, which can get very muddy on rainy days. In addition to the mud, there is a short pink marble wall on the Peachtree St. side of Woodruff. On wet days, the wall is very slippery and dangerous.

In the interests of pedestrian safety and aesthetic beauty, I made it a goal to make sure a path gets built across the park. Eventually, word got back to me that the path is now in the plans.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have a class in the General Classroom Building immediately following a class in the Aderhold. Today, I was among a large stream of hundreds of students travelling between the two areas at around 10:40 this morning. I felt vindicated.

Later in the day, around 1:30 or so, the Astronomy Club held a solar observing session in the park. At first, we were in the southern end of Woodruff, by the gazeebo. Most of the folks we spoke to were homeless people enamored at the telescope. This was not the audience we were trying to reach. I turned around and noticed another large stream of students crossing the park at around the location of the flagpole. We moved there to reach our target audience. Once again, I felt vindicated.