The McCandless Project

My McCandless project is to walk a different path to each class, without telling anyone.  It was really weird walking by myself and seeing new people in the hallways walking alone.  I usually don't walk alone and I walk with a couple people to each class, so when I wasn't with them but I was in class I got several different reactions.  One reaction I got was someone asked me if I was doing the McCandless project even though I didn’t tell them, they knew several people were.  Someone else asked me if I was mad at them because I didn’t walk with them that day.  Another reaction I got was someone asked me why they didn’t see me in the hallway.  The last reaction I got was someone just asked me why I didn’t walk with them.  I just felt awkward walking a different way with seeing different people in the halls, and I thought I would be late to class because a couple of the ways I went were longer than usual.  Although I knew people wouldn’t notice me going a different way for one day I felt like people were thinking “why is this girl going this way?”  I know now that people probably didn’t even think anything of it, but that’s how I felt at the time.  The reactions I got from going a different way weren’t too surprising because I thought that at least someone would ask me why I didn’t walk with them or why they didn’t see me.  The only thing that really surprised me was when one of my friends asked me if I was mad at them because I always walk with them.  I think I’m “free” not to conform based on the results to walk a different path to my classes, but I still think someone would ask me why I didn’t walk with them.  I think this whole project was pretty fun and easy to try out because it was fun to see what people had to say about me walking a different pathway.  It was just a simple project that didn’t do any harm, and I wasn’t late to any classes, so I think it was fun!  Overall, I really enjoyed doing this great project, and seeing how people reacted to the different situation!