I’m at the moment in London, England for the BETT Show and TeachMeet BETT 2014. As is the case with most flights going to Europe from the east coast of the U.S. my flight left within the night and arrived in London in the midst of the morning. This meant that I used to be too early to test into my resort. I knew this forward of time and figured that I might in all probability test my baggage on the ExCel Conference Center the place the BETT Show is being held. I needed to substantiate this forward of time so I spent a while looking on the BETT and ExCel web sites for “coat check,” “bag check,” “coat room,” and “bag storage” within the hopes of confirming my assumption. My searches had been fruitless.
Eventually I confirmed my assumption a couple of baggage test once I stumbled upon a map of the convention heart. In shopping across the map I found a “cloakroom.” When I hear “cloak” I immediately consider the Count Chocula character from the cereal containers of the 1980’s (my mom by no means allow us to eat that type of cereal regardless of our pleas). I by no means thought to make use of the phrase “cloak” in any of my searches for details about storing my jacket and small bag for the afternoon. Cloak is simply not a daily a part of my American vernacular.
I’ve little doubt that college students generally run into roadblocks of their searches for a similar motive that I didn’t discover something in my searches; we’re caught in our personal vernacular. Had I used a thesaurus once I acquired caught, I in all probability would have discovered the phrase cloak and confirmed my assumptions about checking my baggage for the day. The lesson right here is when your search has hit a roadblock, attempt a thesaurus to search out phrases which may lead you to higher search outcomes.
P.S. that journey to the BETT Show additionally lead me to assembly Sophie Ellis-Bextor with out understanding that she was well-known. That’s a narrative for one more time.