The point of the class was to see why Barcelona was such a booming success of a tourist city, and pretty much was supposed to show why Atlanta sucked. This also included bashing on Atlanta’s horrible transportation system (MARTA honestly doesn’t get you anywhere useful except the airport), the lack of historical architecture, and the un-walkable layout of the city. Because Barcelona is structured so methodologically, our class concentrated on its great transportation system, the cultural/historical buildings, and the people-friendly layout of the city in general. Taking an architecture class on cities and what makes them successful, I learned a lot more about Atlanta than I thought I would. Even though I absolutely fell in love with that city, I came to love my own city a little more.
It was when I went abroad to Barcelona the summer after freshman year that everything changed. Of course, that got my freshman, noob-like self nowhere. I started off freshman year with a “I’m here because it’s cheap, everyone at Tech is awkward, school is depressing and hard, I don’t want to be here” mindset. The people in the suburbs that I thought were “Atlantans.” I started college with the mindset that I’d be stuck with the same people for the rest of my life. Devastated that I wasn’t going to be going to my dream school in California, I grudgingly chose Tech, knowing that it’d be the most financially smart choice. I thought that going to college, I’d finally be able to escape the 18 years I had spent growing up in “Atlanta,” but I soon found out that the Hope/Zell Miller scholarship would keep me in the city’s grasp for 4 more years (or 5 or 6 or 7… it’s Tech, you never know). The people were closed-minded, and there was nothing to do. Growing up in the suburbs, I never really experienced the actually city of Atlanta other than the occasional errand here and there, so I thought that “Atlanta” was boring and dull. Atlanta: Where the weather is a mystery everyday The Love-Hate Relationship We say that so we don’t have to explain that we came from one of the suburban cities outside of the Perimeter. Also known as my home and the city I’ve spent the past 19 (almost 20!) years in. And recently, as always, the place where the weather changes so drastically from day to day, that the city’s weather has been diagnosed with a bipolar disorder.
The land of endless Waffle Houses on every street.
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