{"id":277,"date":"2022-05-08T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onemonthinmurphy.tracktwo.us\/?p=277"},"modified":"2022-05-09T04:28:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T04:28:46","slug":"if-you-give-a-college-student-an-expo-marker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onemonthinmurphy.tracktwo.us\/index.php\/2022\/05\/08\/if-you-give-a-college-student-an-expo-marker\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Give a College Student an Expo Marker…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Murphy’s whiteboard in all of its glory.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know what it is that\u2019s so tempting about an empty space on a public whiteboard, but the huge one tucked away in the weird intersection of Murphy Hall is basically a siren song covered in student event posters. I\u2019ve been going to Arcadia University for four years now. I’ve had classes in Murphy Hall for three of them, and every time I passed that whiteboard there was something on it that I could either relate to or giggle at. The minds of undergraduate Arcadia students are bogged down by responsibility, expectation and the lizard brain joys of young adulthood. We\u2019re basically cavemen walking around with backpacks, so it\u2019s not surprising that we revert back to cave painting when we see a fresh un-smashed Expo marker and empty white space. Over the years I\u2019ve seen so many little characters and declarations from students like \u201cyeet\u201d or \u201ci <3 murphy!\u201d After the pandemic hit, it slowed down, the doodles were a little less frequent, and most of the ones that were<\/em> on there had been unchanged for months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I decided to give my peers a little nudge. I put two new black markers on the ledge and patiently waited. Almost immediately after class I noticed some new additions had already joined the board. I decided to take pictures to chronicle each of the doodles on the whiteboard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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