{"id":47,"date":"2024-09-27T20:09:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T20:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/simran\/?p=47"},"modified":"2024-09-27T20:09:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T20:09:38","slug":"why-i-believe-the-pentacrest-is-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/simran\/2024\/09\/27\/why-i-believe-the-pentacrest-is-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Believe the Pentacrest is Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\r\n\r\nAnyone who knows me well knows that I have an obsession with desire paths. If you don’t know what that is (none of my friends here did until I told them), Merriam-Webster<\/em> defines<\/a> a desire path as “an unplanned route or path (such as one worn into a grassy surface by repeated foot traffic) that is used by pedestrians in preference to or in the absence of a designated alternative (such as a paved pathway).” If you want to dive deeper, here’s a great article<\/a> by The Guardian.\u00a0<\/em>Anyways, as weird as it sounds, when I first arrived on campus, I was excited to stumble upon desire paths everywhere I went since college campuses are notorious for them. While I did encounter a few (usually where sidewalks needed to be wider to accommodate larger friend groups), I was pleasantly surprised to find that the University of Iowa’s Pentacrest has man-made desire paths! What I mean by this is that where it would be likely for a desire path to be formed, there are already paved walkways. It’s almost as if they were designed with the natural flow of human movement in mind. For this reason, I believe the Pentacrest is absolutely perfect!\r\n\r\nThanks for letting me geek out for a minute!\r\n\r\n-Simran\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone who knows me well knows that I have an obsession with desire paths. If you don’t know what that is (none of my friends here did until I told them), Merriam-Webster defines a desire path as “an unplanned route or path (such as one worn into a grassy surface by repeated foot traffic) that is used by pedestrians in preference to or in the absence of a designated alternative (such as a paved pathway).” …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/simran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/simran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/simran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/simran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/simran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/simran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/simran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/simran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/simran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/simran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}