Hey Everyone!
So things are warming up here at Syracuse and everyone's loving it. People are hanging out on the quad and everyone seems more social when it's warm out! Classes are going well! We just finished a big project in Interior Design, the adaptive reuse condo project. My client was Steven Grasse and considering he is such an outrageous and eccentric person it made designing the condo a little difficult. However, it also allowed me to use different and more unusual materials! For example, I used priva-lite glass as the walls in the bathroom. This glass is really cool, its manufactured so that it can go from being completely clear to foggy and opaque with the flip of a switch! Other people in class found some really cool things too. One girl found ceramic tile that is made in a certain way so that the titanium in the product actually reacts with natural sunlight and cleans the air in the same way plants clean the air when they photosynthesise! That's amazing!
Doing these more extensive interior design projects has made me realize how important knowing different materials in the market is to creating a good design. I have definitely spent more time searching the web and reading magazines and advertisements looking for better and new materials.
I've finally figured out my housing for next year as well! I'm living off campus! I'm really excited to finally get my own place! The house is great too, its huge and only two blocks off campus so its really close. Plus we get a balcony! There are four of us girls living upstairs and five guys in the downstairs apartment... so a lot of people in one space will make things very interesting I'm thinking. I can't wait though and most of all I'm glad I have it all settled.
We also found out who is coming to Mayfest this year! Ben Folds and Guster! That's exciting too! I like how they switch up the musical genres every year. Last year they had Fergie and Sean Kingston so this year they definitely picked a different avenue!
Well I hope everyone is doing well with their college search! Till next time!
