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Defeated, she sat on a bench outside Squires Student Center. An older man in a Hokie Bird polo sat next to her, eating an apple.

On the first day of her graduate program in civil engineering at Virginia Tech, Priya clutched her phone like a lifeline. The campus map was a tangle of green spaces and gray rectangles, but the real maze was the abbreviations.

She walked over and smiled. “Hancock? You want Hancock. It’s the one that looks like a giant LEGO. And don’t worry—we’ve all been lost here. That’s how you find your way.” virginia tech building abbreviations

Her first class was in “GH.” Her phone guessed “Graduate Hall,” but a passing student shook their head. “That’s G-H, as in Goodwin Hall. The new one with the shaking tables.” Priya blinked. Shaking tables? She decided not to ask.

“Hopelessly,” Priya admitted. “I have a PhD in structural analysis, but I can’t decode ‘LITC.’ My notes say ‘meet at LITC, room 101.’ I thought it was a typo for ‘library.’” Defeated, she sat on a bench outside Squires Student Center

Priya buried her face in her hands. “So ‘LITC’ isn’t a building. It’s a room inside another building ?”

“Lost?” he asked.

Feeling accomplished, she headed toward “NCB.” But twenty minutes later, she was staring at a parking lot. A kind facilities worker chuckled. “You want ‘NCB’? That’s North Classroom Building. But folks round here just call it ‘New Classroom.’ You’re at the old one—that’s ‘OCB.’ Different building. Different zip code, almost.”