While most students trudge around campus to get where they're going, Jennie Platt '01 would rather rumble. In case you haven't heard her buzzing around, or seen her zipping by, she has resorted to a vehicle for transportation — her scooter, or more specifically, a Go-ped.
Platt said she received her Go-ped at Christmas. "I asked for a [compact disc] burner, and my dad got the wrong kind," she explained. "It was Christmas Eve and we tried to take it back, but none of the stores had the right kind."
The next day, she discovered the gifts that her twelve-year-old neighbors had received. "We heard these scooters riding up and down the street," she recounted. "I said, 'Dad, I want one of those!' "
Platt brought her scooter back to campus with her, and now it almost never leaves her side. "I take it to class every single day, I take it to practice. It goes everywhere with me," she said.
She is used to riding motorized vehicles since her family used to have a Honda 50 motor bike and a go-cart. But that does not mean that she's not prone to accidents. One day, she and a friend were riding the Go-ped down Prospect Avenue at lunchtime and fell off — in front of a very large audience.
Another friend tried to ride it without knowing anything about the brakes. "She jumped right on it and didn't let me show her where the gas and the brakes were," Platt explained. "She was going full speed and realized she needed to put on the brakes. She went flying off and landed on a maintenance man."
Platt said she cannot escape the strange looks she receives when she's zooming through campus. And though she looks bizarre now, who knows? Perhaps the Go-ped will be the next big mode of transportation on campus.
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