it's ovah!
So my thesis review happened on Friday (thanks for coming, Teesa!) and it's definitely nice to have that over and done with. I still do have a summer's worth of research ahead of me, but it's different and usually a bit less stressful, and consequently, a little less daunting. The last couple of days preceeding the presentation were ridiculous...I didn't sleep at all on Wednesday night, and then proceeded to work straight through to 4:30am on Thursday/Friday. I couldn't have done it without help. Lilly came by and helped build my site model a couple of nights. Todd built the Sears tower, the other tower, sanded the green roof thingy of the coolest model evahTM (photos to come in a second), babysat the plotter, brought me food, etc. and generally kept me (mostly) sane.
The review was interesting, too. Unlike most reviews that end up being discussions about the project and what one could have done differently (which is then totally useless becase changes generally don't get made), this review was much more about what sort of an architect I envision being/becoming in the future. Which, actually, is pretty appropriate for a thesis review, given that this is the end of my educational career, and in theory, I should have an idea of where I want to go next. Weird, though, because it just rarely happens. I think it happened because my project was developed just enough to get a sense for my attitude toward building/designing, but not so developed as to give the reviewers specific details to harp on. So, cool. I enjoyed it.
I was so tired, though, that when I made my introductory ppt slide, I put my advisor down as Andrew Smith...he's Andrew Scott. oops. And the best part was that he pointed it out to me by asking "who's Andrew Smith?" and it took me a full two minutes to figure out what the problem was. Ehn, he understood, so no hard feelings, I think.
Anywho, that's the update. Here's the
though I think it looks better in person than in photographs.
The review was interesting, too. Unlike most reviews that end up being discussions about the project and what one could have done differently (which is then totally useless becase changes generally don't get made), this review was much more about what sort of an architect I envision being/becoming in the future. Which, actually, is pretty appropriate for a thesis review, given that this is the end of my educational career, and in theory, I should have an idea of where I want to go next. Weird, though, because it just rarely happens. I think it happened because my project was developed just enough to get a sense for my attitude toward building/designing, but not so developed as to give the reviewers specific details to harp on. So, cool. I enjoyed it.
I was so tired, though, that when I made my introductory ppt slide, I put my advisor down as Andrew Smith...he's Andrew Scott. oops. And the best part was that he pointed it out to me by asking "who's Andrew Smith?" and it took me a full two minutes to figure out what the problem was. Ehn, he understood, so no hard feelings, I think.
Anywho, that's the update. Here's the
though I think it looks better in person than in photographs.