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And back again to Walker Hall, the Graduate center, you’ll remember that I drew its whole redevelopment over the course of several years until it finally opened in late 2021, with a more official grand opening in 2022, when many of my sketches were put on display in there to show the changes from the old Walker Hall to the new Graduate Center. It was a very busy day, the first day of Fall classes, and there were crowds of students standing by the roundabout near the Silo cheering the buses and cyclists, apparently this is a tradition on the first day of classes, one that I had never noticed before in the previous 17 years. I needed to get a sketch out, so I stopped here at the familiar place, and drew it as it currently looks. Nearby, a young student squealed suddenly, I thought perhaps they had been run over by a bike, but it turned out they were just excited about something on their phone and wanted to make a loud excited sound. Then a few minutes later, another young student made a loud yelping sound. What is going on with these young folk I thought, is this a new thing? It turned out the second person had been stung by a wasp or a yellowjacket or something, and that looked pretty painful. Stung on the first day of classes, things can only get better. I sketched up to a certain point, suddenly very aware of any flying insect in my vicinity, and decided to call it a lunchtime.

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