As a student entering her third year in Architecture school at Cal Poly State University, I've struggled through two years of late nights, crazy professors, and ever changing design criteria. Not to mention working 20-30 hours a week to pay for food and drawing supplies. I have three years left and I'm still not 100% sure Architecture is the right choice for me. Thus, a blog is born.
I know, I know. Since Julie Powell's wild blogging success, everybody's doing it. Really, I'm not expecting any book or movie deals to come out of this. Just a little insight. This is meant to be a place where I can record all my adventures, triumphs, and frustrations. Sort of a journal/online portfolio. Anyway, we'll see what happens.
Fall quarter starts on the 22nd. The professor I am going to have is doing a design/build project. All 18 of us students are going to work together on the interior of our AIAS club room. Then we're going to build the pieces, put them together, and (hopefully!) it will be finished and ready for use beginning in January. It should be a fantastic learning experience, but I do have a lot to learn. The only design programs I've had ANY experience with are FormZ, and a tiny bit of SketchUp, neither or which are really in Vogue at the moment. I'll also get to learn how to use a lot of useful tools for creating models, all of which I find a tad intimidating - to say the least.
And now, the scene is set, and as someone wise and therefore famous once said, "you can't do anything unless you start," so off we go...
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