Now that we have been here for a few months, I can say without reservation that our new Manchester Center of Granite State College is beautiful. If you haven't seen it or taken a class here, I recommend you do so. It's in a converted mill buidling, and our windows face west, and with the sun settign behind St. Mary's, it's quite a nice place to have a class or meeting. To be a center of adult education, but to have a center like this seems to be the best of both worlds.
I bring this up because as beautiful as our suite is, the parking lot is not so much. Actually, to be more accurate, the corner of the parking lot where I pull into it is not so great. I pull up to the building from Allard St., and pull into the parking lot right in front of Planet Fitness. Although it's arguably the closest entrance geographically, it's full of potholes, cars backing out of spots, other cars waiting to get into those spots, and pedestrians seemingly unaware of the four-wheeled metal-and-fiberglass vehicles going back and fourth.
While chatting with a colleague the other day, I mentioned how lousy that part of the parking lot was, to which he replied, "just go to the entrance at the top of hill on the corner."
Lightning had struck - how simple an answer. And the problem is that I consider myself to be fairly intelligent, but the idea of driving another 80 feet to a wider, less crowded part of the parking lot never occured to me. Perhaps my auto-piloting the morning commute didn't free up the brain power needed to try out that simple and yet highly effective solution to the mess I always pull into.
It goes to show that sometime the solutions to problems are simpler and more accessible than we think. Of course, if driving another 80 feet in the morning would make my bills less expensive, that would be neat. But it made me think that perhaps Granite State College, especially when measured up against the alernatives, can be that solution right around the corner. If classrooms choked with kids not taking things seriously look like the only route at first, maybe there are adult college classes that might be a better fit that make life easier.
That, and if you decide to take a class here, you can check out our snazzy new center.
I bring this up because as beautiful as our suite is, the parking lot is not so much. Actually, to be more accurate, the corner of the parking lot where I pull into it is not so great. I pull up to the building from Allard St., and pull into the parking lot right in front of Planet Fitness. Although it's arguably the closest entrance geographically, it's full of potholes, cars backing out of spots, other cars waiting to get into those spots, and pedestrians seemingly unaware of the four-wheeled metal-and-fiberglass vehicles going back and fourth.
While chatting with a colleague the other day, I mentioned how lousy that part of the parking lot was, to which he replied, "just go to the entrance at the top of hill on the corner."
Lightning had struck - how simple an answer. And the problem is that I consider myself to be fairly intelligent, but the idea of driving another 80 feet to a wider, less crowded part of the parking lot never occured to me. Perhaps my auto-piloting the morning commute didn't free up the brain power needed to try out that simple and yet highly effective solution to the mess I always pull into.
It goes to show that sometime the solutions to problems are simpler and more accessible than we think. Of course, if driving another 80 feet in the morning would make my bills less expensive, that would be neat. But it made me think that perhaps Granite State College, especially when measured up against the alernatives, can be that solution right around the corner. If classrooms choked with kids not taking things seriously look like the only route at first, maybe there are adult college classes that might be a better fit that make life easier.
That, and if you decide to take a class here, you can check out our snazzy new center.
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