192/365 | Wednesday - February 24th, 2010

Up and inOur studio professor excused us for an hour during studio time to head down to the College of Environmental Design 2010 Career Fair.  Although none of us are in any kind of position to be seriously looking for work, I was still interested to see how many firms and which ones had shown up.  The bad thing is, all firms that were present were heavily rooted in architecture - it's not really at all what I'm looking for at all.  The sad thing is, there was only about 12 firms there and I doubt any of them were really looking to offer people jobs.  If this is where the design job market is now, where is it going to be in six months?  Better? Hopefully?  Anyhow, not all was lost - I did get a free bit size Snicker's bar out of it, and I didn't even have to talk to anyone.

I feel better about studio now that we had a group discussion with Peter (the studio instructor) about where we're going next.  He's letting us pick through our project site and seek out things we want to accomplish and things that we're interested in learning more about or have special interest in. So, I get  to focus on a few things landscape related and a few fun things that deal with the whole architectural aspect - which I can't say I'm entirely comfortable with at this point.  I'd be fine with it if I felt I had a bit more time to learn about what I'm supposed to do with it.  Between now and this being due, I also have a thesis presentation to give, so I don't really have a lot of time to toy around with meticulous ideas and have them shot down for not even being plausible.  I'll probably just have to play it safe and go with simpler ideas that I know will work.

What I'm Listening To: Alkaline Trio - Piss and Vinegar

Miles Biked: 5.2 / 591.4