Month: April 2020

Wildcard Artifact

One of my favorite shows is Saturday Night Live. In between the sketches, an image is displayed and is referred to as a “bumper”. These are images of the host and/or musical guest and are playful and colorful. During this time of quarantine, I have decided to make myself more marketable by polishing my skills in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and make one of these bumpers for myself. There was a lot that went into it. Firstly, I had to experiment with photography and use many different positions and lighting effects. In the design process, I had to make many small decisions that greatly affected the final project, making me aware that no decision is unimportant in a project. These skills are transferable to my designs in the future in architecture school.

 

G.O.A.L.S. Update & Career Plan Reflection

Many of my GOALS relate to my professional experiences, and I believe myself to be well on my way to achieving them. The organizations I have joined have provided and will provide me with so many more resources to achieve these. These organizations will also play a huge role in service engagement as well. STEP will help with global awareness, hopefully allowing me to travel to Hungary in approximately one year.  My involvement in the career fair has allowed me to understand what firms are looking for and how I can better market myself. Finally, my academic enrichment and original inquiry is being fulfilled in my course work at Knowlton.

End-of-Year Reflection

My second year has ended very abruptly and strangely, but that is not to say I did not get anything out of it. This spring semester has led to a lot for me. I am a new member of Alpha Rho Chi and I am anxious to get involved with their philanthropic and professional activities. I was elected co-president of my disability awareness organization Abilities. I have learned more about what it means to be an architect.

Next year, there is a lot on my plate. Next year is supposed to be the most challenging in the architecture program. This, in addition to my responsibilites in my organizations, will be a tough, but rewarding challenge for me. I cannot wait to see what the future has in store for me.

Artifact

The image above is a drawing I presented during my first final review in the architecture program for a project that was of my design. This final review was especially scary for me considering, the mid review (a presentation of an idea rather than a completed project) did not go particularly well. Still, I made the choice to continue on and refine my idea. However, when the day finally came in the Knowlton School of Architecture, I was scared the the jury would see the original idea and not like it and think it was underdeveloped. To my surprise, they enjoyed it and did have a lot of good things to say. This review was transformational in that I now could realize that I have the ability to be confident in myself and develop any idea into something great no matter the opinion of others.