As I had done in New Haven, I wrote my name and a short message on the wall with my finger. No one will see it, but it's there. And then I was gone. reminds me of a thing that happened at my high school after I left, which is documented in our wikipedia page (I was surprised to discover we had such a thing).
To quote the article: The school's gym has recently been renovated, replacing the original tile flooring with hardwood. Instead of just taking out the old floor and putting the new one in, the school ran into a dilemma. The old tile flooring was literally the ceiling for the basement. So instead, they placed the new wood flooring over the old tile flooring making it look as if they did in fact remove the tiles. Once the school found out they were putting the new floor over the old, students and teachers came into the gym at random times throughout the day, and drew messages to a late student, Alex Vlach, who had died from cancer earlier in the year.
I often think of people discovering the messages in a few dozen years when the floor wears out, and I wonder whether wikipedia will still be documenting it then.
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To quote the article: The school's gym has recently been renovated, replacing the original tile flooring with hardwood. Instead of just taking out the old floor and putting the new one in, the school ran into a dilemma. The old tile flooring was literally the ceiling for the basement. So instead, they placed the new wood flooring over the old tile flooring making it look as if they did in fact remove the tiles. Once the school found out they were putting the new floor over the old, students and teachers came into the gym at random times throughout the day, and drew messages to a late student, Alex Vlach, who had died from cancer earlier in the year.
I often think of people discovering the messages in a few dozen years when the floor wears out, and I wonder whether wikipedia will still be documenting it then.