guess what?

i'm excited about our studio project! really, quite excited. :)

i haven't posted in such a long time, i know. i always mean to, but ... i don't have time and i'd sound like a huge whiner. i don't know, as nerdy as it is, in all my feeling "meh" over cambridge isolation and ghetto-ness, and of course stress over co op and school marks and how competitive everyone can be, i really *like* school. i look forward to going to class. really! i love how, as you learn, new ideas resonate on themes you've read and pondered in the past.

i really came here to comment on my studio group, though. i like them! [note: i feel funny "talking about people" on the net; who knows but that they'll stumble here one day, but in all honesty i don't mind if they know this is what i think!]

first of all, there's matt. :) older than us by a degree, i think, i've never had the chance to interact with him. i'm awed by his intelligence and maturity, found out he has a lovely sense of humour (him teasing evgenia on her height). and he's so nice, he treats me like i can actually contribute when i really don't know anything about structure. major appreciation going out to him.

jenn (sitting a few spots away from me in the computer lab, as i write) is really sweet, really sincere. i like her a lot, too! :) today, i found myself in a great debate with the author of our design [pause to explain: our project is to construct a model of another classmate's project, selected by random draw. in trying to make the structure work, modifications are inevitable. the person who designed the building isn't part of the group.] when i mentioned some changes we'll make. he argued that we had destroyed the whole intention of his design; i only knew to tell him why i thought he didn't make sense and how his opinion wasn't the point of this project anyhow. jenn helped me end the debate with an incredible, kind, well-defined response: i don't recall it word for word, but she summarized the ideas that transpired in our three hour crit, our motives for doing this, and told joel that "if you had had time to develop this further, these are some changes you would have made yourself." what a lesson in people skills! :) i admire her.

john armstrong is so mellow! i like him, he makes me not feel bad for not having too much to say. i always marvel at how mellow john is and how perfectionist-ic evgenia is, [not that john isn't a perfectionist, because he is, but you hear evgenia's more vocal about it]. i've always seen parallels between myself and evgenia, as in, i have just such an overachiever mentality and can be so very complainy when given the chance! of course i'm not half as good as her, and i don't really know her.

i do know michael feinberg. one of the first people i met in architecture, he's also quite determined in his thinking. but i do like talking to him and it's nice to have someone i "know" in the group. the nice thing about working with friends is that you feel so comfortable being "you" with them. they're much easier to talk to.

but i feel like i'm going to learn so much from everyone in my group! :)

it's quite a blessing, interacting with people i didn't know :)

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