December 2009
6 posts
a message to all young, budding architects out...
Articles like this one, along with my last little post about the sad state of the design industry right now, don’t paint the rosiest picture for motivated young architects and designers hoping to tackle the “real world.” But the last thing I want to do is be held responsible for telling someone what they can’t do, especially if they really want it, so I want to go ...
adapting your "dreams"
I’ve had very few long-term goals in my life, and careers definitely never made the list. College wasn’t for vocational training, and when I was in school, I never seriously thought about what I wanted to do after graduation. I didn’t avoid the question, I just never had an answer that really made sense. One thing was always clear: I didn’t want to be an architect,...
The Sentimental Santa Mantle
My mom enjoys telling us every year that she has never ever bought a Christmas tree ornament. The probably explains why most of the ornaments on our tree are pieces of paper in the shape disfigured gingerbread men covered in glitter, with a misspelled, barely legible name on the back from when we were learning write. Other ornaments include pieces from old advent calendars, and the...
What you would have done if you were me on...
The day would start with you waking up to your watch alarm going off at 6AM, but you would have no clue where you were or why it was so early. Most importantly, why did it feel like you had just gone to bed?
Then you remember: because you had turned out the light at 3AM. At midnight, the very beginning of Saturday, you were standing near the bar at Pacha NYC with some friends, waiting for...
Title Search, pt. 2: Research and Study Skillz
My freshman year of high school we all had to take this ridiculous class called “Research and Study Skills” with three woman who used the phrase “click it on” when they wanted us to select something in “the Microsoft Word.” While I didn’t actually learn anything in this class, we did do an interesting exercise: through a series of little tests, we...
Title Search, pt. 1: Painless Jogging
After the loss of my iPod shuffle during my last few weeks in college, I was without musical entertainment for most of my summer jogs.* For anyone that exercises regularly with music, you understand how it is a fantastic way to keep your mind off the cramp in your side, burning in your lungs or general feeling of exhaustion. After a few runs without a soundtrack, I realized that something had...
