MONTREAL DAY 1

I am in Montréal, and here is what we came to visit. That’s right, we have been flying all day so we can visit an empty parking lot. And tomorrow we get to spend more time at the parking lot – measuring it, documenting where trees exist, and drawing the...

ROME UPDATE

It’s official – I bought my ticket to Rome. There is no turning back now! Kelsey and I are flying out of the Chicago O’Hare airport at 4:10 pm, Tuesday, January 3rd. We have a layover in Toronto, and then we will arrive in Rome at 11:00 am,...

HAPPY THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!

Tomorrow is my three-year anniversary with Steven. We aren’t able to spend any time together because he had to be at a conference in Indianapolis. He sent me the most adorable cards in the mail though. The first one I opened was a funny anniversary card with...

A BIT OF A SURPRISE

The Clovis meeting turned out to be different than I had expected. I was under the impression that he was going to hire one student to do all of the design and presentation work, but rather, he decided to have another student design three different addition proposals,...

YAY…SEPTEMBER

Despite the small and pathetic amount of work I had prepared, I had another meeting with the engineering professor for the Clovis Apartment Complex project on Friday. I ended up spending all of Thursday night preparing for the meeting – doing more site research,...

SAD NEWS

I found out some sad news today. I was already feeling a little uneasy about going to Rome, because of the housing situation and money matters, but today I found out that two of my best friends here, Alejandra and Cristina, are not planning on going. I am a fairly...