Living in the City is Making us Smarter

As Johnson states in his novel Everything Bad is Good For You, today’s culture is actually making us smarter, even when we think that it is not. Living in the Drexel community for a couple of weeks has convinced me that what Johnson said is true. Not just studying at Drexel, but also living in Philadelphia has made me smarter in a number of ways. Coming to Philadelphia has helped me learn a lot about the means of public transport in cities.
It was 2:30 p.m. Friday afternoon and I just couldn’t wait to get out of my biology lecture. This was because I was going to meet my best friend after months. I was supposed to meet her at center city but I had no idea how to get there. When my class ended, I asked my roommate what the easiest way would be to get there. She told me to take the subway. She used words like “eastbound” and “westbound” which were words that I had never heard of before. Finally, I ended up going to the station at 33rd and market. Unfortunately, my roommate told me to go to 34th and market and I misheard her. Basically, I was at the station for the trolleys instead of the subway. I called up my roommate and she told me to ask the person at the ticket counter for help. I was so confused because there was no ticket counter at all. In the end, I called up my friend and she told me to take the trolley eastbound towards center city and I reached there. Instead of the subway, I learned how to use the trolley system. Coming to the city made me smarter in a major way.