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myurbandreami love being in college so much right now. i mean, sometimes it really sucks, but on days like today i feel like i want to be in college for the rest of my life.
jim had work at 6am this morning, so i was up at 5am with him. i got back to my apartment at 530 and tried to go to sleep again, but i shouldn't have, because i only actually slept for about half an hour before i had to get up at 7am again anyway, and then i was sleepy. it wasn't worth it. but, whatever, anyway: i got up at 7am for the first site visit we had to do for our project for taylor's class (structures ii, or "materials and methods ii" according to my syllabus). best 1-1/2 hour lecture i have ever been to in my life. i wish structures class was always like this instead of boring monotone lectures and busy-work textbook readings.
a lot of what we talked about on-site was stuff we had already covered in class, either last semester or in the past couple months, but it was so much more interesting to hear the architect talking about it this morning in the context of actually dealing with it, and being able to see the effects of it and ask questions about specific things we could look at. the site is incredibly interesting from a structural and programming perspective, and there was a lot of background that we would never have understood about the project if we hadn't talked personally with the architect while on-site. it was incredible.
then the five of us went out for brunch at house of pies, and had great conversation about our degree program, the profession as a whole, and the wonderful food at house of pies. i feel like now in third year we're all finally realizing what it is that we want to do with our lives, where we want to be in a decade as far as our career is concerned, which is what nick brought up. it's interesting to see how five different people, who've all been going through the same program together for three years now, have such completely different goals and passions all within the scope of the degree we're taking. (and i'm finally learning how to get around in that area on the other side of 59, between midtown and the medical district; normally anything i need to do there is right off of the highway so i never need to take the backstreets, but yesterday and today were both adventures in navigating.)
(yesterday, on the way to drop off glass at the recycling center, kathryn and i took a couple of accidentally-on-purpose detours, into rice village and another nearby neighborhood, and the homes there are gorgeous, i mean absolutely stunning. i want to go back some day when i have more time. i love those areas of the city, i just never have a reason to go over in that direction, so it was really nice to be there and have the opportunity to make random turns and get lost in those beautiful old neighborhoods.)
basically, i love my life right now. i am full of win.
jim had work at 6am this morning, so i was up at 5am with him. i got back to my apartment at 530 and tried to go to sleep again, but i shouldn't have, because i only actually slept for about half an hour before i had to get up at 7am again anyway, and then i was sleepy. it wasn't worth it. but, whatever, anyway: i got up at 7am for the first site visit we had to do for our project for taylor's class (structures ii, or "materials and methods ii" according to my syllabus). best 1-1/2 hour lecture i have ever been to in my life. i wish structures class was always like this instead of boring monotone lectures and busy-work textbook readings.
a lot of what we talked about on-site was stuff we had already covered in class, either last semester or in the past couple months, but it was so much more interesting to hear the architect talking about it this morning in the context of actually dealing with it, and being able to see the effects of it and ask questions about specific things we could look at. the site is incredibly interesting from a structural and programming perspective, and there was a lot of background that we would never have understood about the project if we hadn't talked personally with the architect while on-site. it was incredible.
then the five of us went out for brunch at house of pies, and had great conversation about our degree program, the profession as a whole, and the wonderful food at house of pies. i feel like now in third year we're all finally realizing what it is that we want to do with our lives, where we want to be in a decade as far as our career is concerned, which is what nick brought up. it's interesting to see how five different people, who've all been going through the same program together for three years now, have such completely different goals and passions all within the scope of the degree we're taking. (and i'm finally learning how to get around in that area on the other side of 59, between midtown and the medical district; normally anything i need to do there is right off of the highway so i never need to take the backstreets, but yesterday and today were both adventures in navigating.)
(yesterday, on the way to drop off glass at the recycling center, kathryn and i took a couple of accidentally-on-purpose detours, into rice village and another nearby neighborhood, and the homes there are gorgeous, i mean absolutely stunning. i want to go back some day when i have more time. i love those areas of the city, i just never have a reason to go over in that direction, so it was really nice to be there and have the opportunity to make random turns and get lost in those beautiful old neighborhoods.)
basically, i love my life right now. i am full of win.
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Date: 2009-02-28 07:35 pm (UTC)