As I was getting lunch at Kaya today, I noticed their chopsticks resemble the pair I have in my To-Go Ware set. It reminded me of the day when Panda saw them and asked me why they were warped. Months later, when another friend came back from grad school in the East Coast, he saw them and asked the exact same thing. -____- Whereas I and our other friend, a history major, saw them as artistic, they saw them as warped. Wow. A lesson in the differences between North and South campus majors!
See the gentle curving to give them more character?
At UCLA, North campus houses most of the humanities and social sciences and South campus houses most of the life sciences and physical sciences. The School of Theater, Film, and Television is as north as you can get, while the School of Engineering is in the southern half. We often joke about this separation, but in this case, there truly is a disparity between the way we interpret things. North campus majors recognize the beauty and elegance of a twisted shape; South campus majors recognize a purposeless deformation. Ultimately, we’re looking at the same thing, but our differing opinions of the chopsticks’ design would easily lead to a scenario where I buy them, only to have Panda return them as he wondered why I bought them at all. It’s funny, isn’t it, how differently we view the world?
