'When the University of California at Irvine campus was first built, they just put the buildings in. They did not put in any sidewalks; they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and built the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass.'
Instead of making the sidewalks more efficient, my university put up a bunch of signs trying to shame us from walking on the grass by saying that if we had school spirit we would stay on the sidewalks.
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