On Friday the 13th, 2017 we had to take a visit to the museum in order to write an essay based on one of the pieces we chose in the exhibition. At first I had two appointments that day but had to cancel one just to make it and even then I was still in a rush since I didn’t have time and I was late. I had to take the A train to 125th st and then take the B or the D to 86th st and then from then on take the m86-sbs crosstown in order to get to the museum without doing too much walking.
When I got there it wasn’t too hard to find the group because they were right next to one of the big statutes near the entrance. We waited a bit for other people to show up and then we put on our stickers and went in through the Egypt exhibit. I’ve been to the MET many times and have already seen many of the pieces we were seeing but it was like I was viewing it from a different lens since I had some context to many of the things we were looking at and it was helpful that our professor was going into detail about all the different pieces we were seeing.
After we finished looking at the Egypt exhibit, some of us went to the Mesopotamian and the Chinese exhibits to get pictures and to pick other pieces to write about. It was a breeze and we took a lot of pictures before we decided to leave and get something to eat. We decided on pizza but for reasons I have forgotten about, we ended up getting Shake Shack and arguing about mangos. It was a pretty chill day and I’m not that mad about going to the MET instead of doing something else.