goals

Sooo, here it is! The post about goals and thoughts for next semester... super exciting, I know... oh... the suspense.

Well, I haven't had much time to think about the quickly-approaching semester... but I'm sure I can easily conjure up some fears and hestitations to write here.

[1]      one of my first goals is to go out more... my college life has been pretty boring and minimally existent ever since freshman year ended.... and after going through second year alot of those fun memories were lost [ I really feel like I have brain damage from literally NEVER sleeping second year ]. And thennn Eric came into my life and ever since that time I feel like I've been less interested in going out and drinking... buuuttt now that I could technically be graduating school [ if I had been in a four-year program ] this upcoming semester - I feel like I don't have enough awesome stories to tell or carry away with me... I think I've sucked the whole intelligence thing out of school - kind of got that under cover - now I just need the wild, crazy experiences that I can tell again and again once I leave.

[2]      figure out whether to drop an additional class now and have an awesome semester... and possibly create an overload problem during thesis... orrrr just stay in the freakin class and probably not enjoy it very much... but also probably not enjoy the options for what I would have to take to replace it in the future.

[3]      gooooo somewhere over spring break! no more staying at home for the week... that's soooo boring... I want to go somewhere - if it was entirely my choice I'd say Boston... but maybe someone else will have a good idea... I wouldn't mind some warm weather

[4]      try to keep up a good sleeping schedule... like I had for the beginning of dd - waking up early [ like 9 or 10 ] and working in studio in the am, rather than late into the night... also trying to make Saturdays free - to go home, or somewhere else, to spend time with Eric ... orrr if you see *1 above maybe to recover from a crazy Friday night!

[5]     probably the nerd trying to overcome my party-fever... but I still feel like I need to buy a GRE's study guide and maaaaybe start skimming it? I know I probably won't have time to read the thing... seeing as I tend to not even have time to read my own horoscope everyday... but it would be nice to know I've at least got the book for this thing in the bag.

[6]      pick a good vertical!

[7]      start gathering stuff for grad schools... what does each school ask for? choose three references. finish my portfoooolio [which should actually be done by now]... yadda yadda

[8]     start going to the gym!!! I need to try and workout even if it's only two or three times a week!

[9]     try to make coffee out of the kurig more than buying it on campus! [... or at starbuckss]



Okaaay, well that's about all I can say for now... whenever I think about starting the semester I think about being in Oatman's vertical. I was sooo happy to kick-off that semester - I was finally back in America with Eric again, I chose a studio with a professor I liked, I was in awesome electives.... I looked forward to that semester as if I was entering a fairytale. Anddd then it came back to bite me. Within the first week I was swamped with work... I don't think I even wrote on the blog for another month or some long period of time like that. I was depressed since the struggles of the first project and the whole semester dragged on like a horrible toothache. Sure, Enclosures, Writing, and Philosophy went well... with Writing actually also taking a turn for the worst in the last few weeks of the semester.... when my parter wasn't doing any work [ oh surprise, surprise... as if Claudio hadn't prepared me for that... and I couldn't see it coming with James]. But Philosophy ended very well - my final essay was research on a topic I truly wanted to explore and did an awesome job discussing it... Enclosures was a huuuge risk... I had chosen a weird, out-there project, and had to convince my partners of a few criteria with the idea [ that I wasn't sure would work or not ], even before presenting in the final I sat next to Katie Czub and told her they were either going to absolutely hate it, or really, really love the idea... good for me [ and my partners, too ] they loved the ideas and what we were going for in the design... Enclosures ended well. Overall though, that semester made me want to quit architecture for good. That was when I took alot of measures to talk to people about changing majors, I was in a state of crisis.... and all after believing the semester was going to run smoothly. I really can only hope this Spring will be the doppleganger of that experience.

- c