i should warn you, i go to sleep....
Dec. 4th, 2008 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
myurbandreamthe end.
........
*gasp* okay, studio is officially over!!! (unofficially, we still have end-of-year evaluations, documentation portfolios, and post-semester dinner. woot.) our crit just ended about twenty minutes ago, and i'm free until 630pm, which is when my history class meets for the last time this semester.
originally our project was due at 5pm today - well, okay, that's a lie. originally, our project was due on tuesday and our crit was today, but then hurricane ike happened and everything got pushed back by two days. so we were supposed to have pencils-down at 5pm today, and our crit was scheduled for monday. but apparently truitt decided that we were still going to have jury today, he just neglected to inform us of this until last thursday. so we had pencils-down at 2pm and jury at 210pm. *sighs* of course we were all pretty ticked about that - one studio had their jury yesterday, but all the others don't even have pencils-down until monday - but now that it's finished, i'm walking around looking at everyone still working, and i'm just relieved that it's over. i've had a rough week - two weeks, really, since the intense dash for the finish began the monday of thanksgiving week.
so i'm woozy and light-headed and sleep-deprived and starving hungry, and sore all over to boot, but i'm done. sort of.
and it wasn't that bad, really. i was seventh to go, right in the middle of thirteen students, so it was a nice balance between the critics being overly harsh and overly bored. i got a lot of comments about how i could have better developed the project, and some of those ideas were really interesting. also i got some questions that made me realize some of the stuff i did stupidly: making design decisions without thinking about why, like the skylight; and making design decisions that had bigger implications, like the brick facade resulting in the false perception of structure and tectonics. and my layout was stupid. utterly stupid. -___-'
my drawings as a whole were pretty sexy, if i do say so myself, and some of the stuff truitt made me do - like that weird idea section diagram, and thinking hard about my entry - the other critics really loved, so that's cool. (our critics, btw, were a uhcoa grad, prof logan, dallas felter who's teaching next semester, and a graduate prof.) i finally understand what truitt was saying about the implications of the material - how choosing brick means more than just reacting to the surroundings, it also has implications for the perception of structure, masonry as a solid, but floating mass, yadda yadda /geekery. and my 1/8" model was pretty good. i didn't have the base on it, which i was scolded for, and it didn't pull apart like i originally wanted it to, but on the whole it looked good.
my section model was a piece of shit. completely and utterly horrid. i built it in a day and a half, with some help at the end, and i made so many mistakes... it was an exercise in how many new and unusual ways jenny can screw up a model. i need to rebuild it entirely. it actually occured to me mid-crit that i ought to have cut out the floors in the elevator shaft - oops. *headdesk* and i made so many mistakes and judgement errors due simply to being so sleep-deprived, too.
but on the whole i think that my jury went all right, and i optimistically predict that i will get a c+ for the semester in studio. in other words: I WIN AT LIFE!!!!!
so, yeah.
.... i want sleep desperately.
still to do:
final draft of history paper due by thursday
tuesday meeting at work 11a-1p, meeting with truitt 330p
wedding stuff: pick venues,dress shopping, reception party list - check theknot.com
documentation for studio
re-do section model and finish perspective drawings
secure loan for next semester
advising for honors course next semester
study for and take finals: bachman & taylor
gynocology/uti appt
post graphic design pic
compile portfolios for engl1300
laundry!!! (oh god.)
finances/ balance checkbook
work out spending forstudio, bachman
help sana on her model
state inspection for marshy on wednesday morning
buy christmas gifts - jim, family/friends, secret santa
monday church 11:30am
2nd year crit on monday @1pm, visit after church?
save and print and put together fic 'zine
new cougar card
(also, i had thoughts about body types. my fiance is hott. *grins*)
........
*gasp* okay, studio is officially over!!! (unofficially, we still have end-of-year evaluations, documentation portfolios, and post-semester dinner. woot.) our crit just ended about twenty minutes ago, and i'm free until 630pm, which is when my history class meets for the last time this semester.
originally our project was due at 5pm today - well, okay, that's a lie. originally, our project was due on tuesday and our crit was today, but then hurricane ike happened and everything got pushed back by two days. so we were supposed to have pencils-down at 5pm today, and our crit was scheduled for monday. but apparently truitt decided that we were still going to have jury today, he just neglected to inform us of this until last thursday. so we had pencils-down at 2pm and jury at 210pm. *sighs* of course we were all pretty ticked about that - one studio had their jury yesterday, but all the others don't even have pencils-down until monday - but now that it's finished, i'm walking around looking at everyone still working, and i'm just relieved that it's over. i've had a rough week - two weeks, really, since the intense dash for the finish began the monday of thanksgiving week.
so i'm woozy and light-headed and sleep-deprived and starving hungry, and sore all over to boot, but i'm done. sort of.
and it wasn't that bad, really. i was seventh to go, right in the middle of thirteen students, so it was a nice balance between the critics being overly harsh and overly bored. i got a lot of comments about how i could have better developed the project, and some of those ideas were really interesting. also i got some questions that made me realize some of the stuff i did stupidly: making design decisions without thinking about why, like the skylight; and making design decisions that had bigger implications, like the brick facade resulting in the false perception of structure and tectonics. and my layout was stupid. utterly stupid. -___-'
my drawings as a whole were pretty sexy, if i do say so myself, and some of the stuff truitt made me do - like that weird idea section diagram, and thinking hard about my entry - the other critics really loved, so that's cool. (our critics, btw, were a uhcoa grad, prof logan, dallas felter who's teaching next semester, and a graduate prof.) i finally understand what truitt was saying about the implications of the material - how choosing brick means more than just reacting to the surroundings, it also has implications for the perception of structure, masonry as a solid, but floating mass, yadda yadda /geekery. and my 1/8" model was pretty good. i didn't have the base on it, which i was scolded for, and it didn't pull apart like i originally wanted it to, but on the whole it looked good.
my section model was a piece of shit. completely and utterly horrid. i built it in a day and a half, with some help at the end, and i made so many mistakes... it was an exercise in how many new and unusual ways jenny can screw up a model. i need to rebuild it entirely. it actually occured to me mid-crit that i ought to have cut out the floors in the elevator shaft - oops. *headdesk* and i made so many mistakes and judgement errors due simply to being so sleep-deprived, too.
but on the whole i think that my jury went all right, and i optimistically predict that i will get a c+ for the semester in studio. in other words: I WIN AT LIFE!!!!!
so, yeah.
.... i want sleep desperately.
still to do:
wedding stuff: pick venues,
re-do section model and finish perspective drawings
gynocology/uti appt
post graphic design pic
work out spending for
save and print and put together fic 'zine
(also, i had thoughts about body types. my fiance is hott. *grins*)
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Date: 2008-12-05 04:28 am (UTC)Oh god, Jen...how you DIE.
Are you still gonna visit Austin in the next few weeks sometime? I think it was next Wednesday, right?
ME
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Date: 2008-12-05 04:52 pm (UTC)...I LIVE!!!!!!! *triumphant*
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Date: 2008-12-06 10:02 pm (UTC)Ha, really though, my roomies are throwing a cheezy-christmas-sweater party on the 16th. I have to go find some REALLY cheezy sweater before then, though I'm likly to miss the beginning of that party, because of my last final, though.
ME
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Date: 2008-12-07 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-07 07:02 am (UTC)That sounds like teh SUCK.
Also, cheezy christmas sweaters is apparently a popular christmas party theme. The idea is to cheese out so hard it's cool.
ME
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Date: 2008-12-07 08:36 pm (UTC)ifhow that works out.