Work has been pretty slow, leaving me to daydream about where I want to travel next. I've had a recent obsession with Spanish architecture and now I'm finding Brazilian architecture is also very credible, leading these two places to be of utmost importance to me. But I still miss Italy like crazy. The trouble with going back to Italy, is how could I choose where to go back to? I would miss Venice and the north during the summer time, but only want to be in Rome and the southern coasts during the fall and winter. I couldn't miss Piazza Navona during Christmastime. And then there are places like China and Tibet that are so distant and curious, how could I pass up a trip on such unique places? Or what about Poland, Norway, Finland? I could see Magda and also learn about the intricacies of Slavic architecture, another soft spot in my finicky archie heart. Maybe a good way to narrow things down would be to choose places that I would also want to learn the language? In which case, I already know Spanish and some Italian. I would love to learn Tibetan languages, and Finnish would be great as well. I think, for the most part, all signs point towards Spain. But me, being me, will always feel like I'm giving up on some better option that might be out there.
As for school... my second favorite topic to daydream about, grad school has been on my mind but not showing through with my heart. I think I'm still divided about architecture. There are days when I love it, and I want to prove myself in it and then there are days when I hate it and wish I hadn't gotten myself involved in this subject. I'll have to have another meeting with DBell, but I am interested in Linguistics as my master's program. This way, I could learn something that dips into both philosophy and anthropology, something that interests me as a topic in itself, and is a subject that I could learn a couple languages in, maybe making myself more marketable to firms in the long run. It would also have great potential to help me become more mobile, I could become a translator or traveling guide in another country. All of these things feel like positives to me.
So what's holding me back? Haha. Well, when trying to convey to my mom that I want to go to grad school [something she usually is asking me about] she was disappointed that I didn't want to continue in architecture. But what's the point of having my master's in architecture? I've watched the masters students at RPI... they learn the same exact things that we do in the undergrad program, they just have many more benefits and resources than we do. But they go through the same classes, the same studios... why spend more years just doing these things that I am on the fence about? Ahh, I really wish DBell were around right now, I could use his cut and dry decision-making at this time!
- c
As for school... my second favorite topic to daydream about, grad school has been on my mind but not showing through with my heart. I think I'm still divided about architecture. There are days when I love it, and I want to prove myself in it and then there are days when I hate it and wish I hadn't gotten myself involved in this subject. I'll have to have another meeting with DBell, but I am interested in Linguistics as my master's program. This way, I could learn something that dips into both philosophy and anthropology, something that interests me as a topic in itself, and is a subject that I could learn a couple languages in, maybe making myself more marketable to firms in the long run. It would also have great potential to help me become more mobile, I could become a translator or traveling guide in another country. All of these things feel like positives to me.
So what's holding me back? Haha. Well, when trying to convey to my mom that I want to go to grad school [something she usually is asking me about] she was disappointed that I didn't want to continue in architecture. But what's the point of having my master's in architecture? I've watched the masters students at RPI... they learn the same exact things that we do in the undergrad program, they just have many more benefits and resources than we do. But they go through the same classes, the same studios... why spend more years just doing these things that I am on the fence about? Ahh, I really wish DBell were around right now, I could use his cut and dry decision-making at this time!
- c
