Graduation is just around the corner. It’s taking place in our facility and the pre-existing blue prints for the building are now long gone.
It’s a long story that involves people who aren’t here to defend themselves so I’m going to elect not to tell it.
So how does one accommodate the needs of the department who coordinates the event who may have been led to believe that I have those nonexistent maps in my possession?
I simply explained that although I did not have the requested documentation, that I’d be willing to see what I could come up with by modifying some renderings I found in a fundraising binder back when they expanded the building in 1994.
The department agreed since the diagrams were going to be edited afterward by our college’s graphic designer and embedded into the graduation programs. So I clone stamped the images to update the drawings to reflect the spaces that actually exist within the building (which includes the challenging task of changing the location of our 1st floor service desk and adding a hallway to the 2nd floor). Then I added labels reflecting the handicap accessible areas, restrooms and emergency exits and main arena seating (a diagram which I compiled in Excel) and voila! An amateur cartographer was born.
Grace In Grit 