Locust Walk: The Aorta

Locust Walk may be described as the main artery within campus. It is therefore appropriate to compare Locust to the aorta, the major artery of the human body. The aorta is the largest artery in the body and is responsible for distributing oxygen to all other arteries. The main purpose of the walk is to allocate Penn students and other people of the city to their destination. Just as other arteries branch off of the aorta, multiple paths exetenf rom Locust and are used to distribute students amoung other parts of campus. Similar to these arteries, the other various paths are smaller in size, both length and width. Locust walk is composed of small units of bricks. Together these bricks provide the strength and support of the entire structure. The size of the brick is relative to the size of cells of the aorta. The aorta is made of of numerous cells that work together to make up the structure as a whole.