Aspiring Anthropologist

The picture above is the basis for my story, which is taken from
Bill Sullivan's Turnstile Photography Project. His photography project is a compilation of pictures taken of a stranger's first moment going through the turnstiles to ride the subway.



Gratified, complacent, self-satisfied; these feelings of accomplishment rushed through Jane's head as she walked out the doors of the American Museum of Natural History. She had conquered her dream of graduating with a BA in anthropology and had just recently been placed at AMNH as one of the researchers of African Ethnology. That was how her day began to end as she walked toward the subway station after a long day of reading books at Barnes & Noble. She was a rather frugal person and found it to be very convenient to be sitting on the comfy couches and delving into a book about the conspiracy theories of the disappearance of the ancient Mayans. People's way of life always interested her as a child, for her upbringing was in a very diverse neighborhood in Queens, New York. However, she always thought there was a difference between learning about ones way of life and gossip. For a moment, while walking past the ticket booth and on her way to the subway she reminisced of her childhood. Out of mind and with her head in the clouds, contemplating of how her life would be and how far she's gone, she walked through the turnstiles on her way to visit her mom to tell her about the good news, and soon enough a slight smile began to form.