Hey!
So we only have three more weeks of school left! Not including next week of course because it's Thanksgiving and we're really not in school. I'm excited but the end of the semester is kind of bittersweet since I'm going abroad next semester so this is really the end of my year here. Its weird! Like I already have to think of moving all my stuff out of my apartment! Even though I'm sad to leave all my friends who aren't going abroad behind I am so excited to go to London. I went to one of the orientation meetings this week and it made me look forward to going abroad even more. There are so many exciting opportunities there for traveling, field trips, and internships! And I can't wait to live in a completely different culture and experience a different lifestyle!
I'm also very excited because I found an interior design job over Christmas break. A woman my mom is friends with contacted me about redoing her daughter's room as a Christmas present! So I am meeting with her over Thanksgiving break to look at the room and take some measurements as well as to talk about ideas and a price range. I'm so excited though because even though I've had internships this is my first real interior design project that I am working on by myself! Hopefully we can come up with something she likes and maybe that will get my foot in the door for other small projects around the area. It just goes to show how important networking is. I think what I've learned most about networking is that it can come from the most random meetings and once you get the opening or opportunity you should really take advantage of it and take it seriously because you never know what will come from even the smallest jobs.
Well I hope everyone is doing well! Talk to you soon!
Leeanna
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Hey!
So last week was our NeoCon field trip! The whole Junior Interior Design class took a field trip down to Baltimore to go to NeoCon and along the way we stopped in Washington D.C and Georgetown to visit some interior design firms! It was a good experience. Georgetown is so cute! All the brick apartment buildings along the water and the cute little shopping areas! I loved it! Plus coming from Syracuse it was so refreshing and such a treat to experience some 70 degree weather! We visited the firm HOK's office and it was pretty exciting since firms are starting to talk to us like we might actually work there some day! It's kind of weird yet cool to think that the firms I'm looking at now may actually be places of future employment. HOK is a pretty big firm and they have offices all over the world. They only do large commercial buildings and they look for versatile employees that have unique and daring ideas. Even though their size and success seem intimidating when we went to the office they all seemed pretty down to earth and nice people. I definitely liked the office and the company values even though I still don't know exactly what avenue of interior design I want to pursue.
NeoCon was pretty cool too! It was in the Baltimore Convention Center so the night before we all got to walk around the inner harbor area which is really pretty with some cute shopping areas. At NeoCon we saw a presentation by the founders of Hellman Chang who were both pretty funny and also really down to earth. We also met with a ton of manufacturers who showed us so many new and innovative products, many of them sustainable. My personal favorite was the ergoErgo chair, which I definitely recommend looking up for any health-minded people out there. It is like a stool almost, but more comfortable, and looks like a plastic spring. It gives you the same type of work out as sitting on an exercise ball, however, it doesn't roll around or tip over like an exercise ball does. I tried one out and they're actually really fun! They just constantly kind of sway back and forth and work out all your core muscles as you sit! The sales representative said they should come out around January... and I'm seriously considering investing in one! Other than meeting with sales reps there were some career advising sessions where professionals would speak to you about the interview process and look over your resumes and portfolios. It was a good experience over all and pretty beneficial. Well I hope you all are doing well! Until next time!
Leeanna
So last week was our NeoCon field trip! The whole Junior Interior Design class took a field trip down to Baltimore to go to NeoCon and along the way we stopped in Washington D.C and Georgetown to visit some interior design firms! It was a good experience. Georgetown is so cute! All the brick apartment buildings along the water and the cute little shopping areas! I loved it! Plus coming from Syracuse it was so refreshing and such a treat to experience some 70 degree weather! We visited the firm HOK's office and it was pretty exciting since firms are starting to talk to us like we might actually work there some day! It's kind of weird yet cool to think that the firms I'm looking at now may actually be places of future employment. HOK is a pretty big firm and they have offices all over the world. They only do large commercial buildings and they look for versatile employees that have unique and daring ideas. Even though their size and success seem intimidating when we went to the office they all seemed pretty down to earth and nice people. I definitely liked the office and the company values even though I still don't know exactly what avenue of interior design I want to pursue.
NeoCon was pretty cool too! It was in the Baltimore Convention Center so the night before we all got to walk around the inner harbor area which is really pretty with some cute shopping areas. At NeoCon we saw a presentation by the founders of Hellman Chang who were both pretty funny and also really down to earth. We also met with a ton of manufacturers who showed us so many new and innovative products, many of them sustainable. My personal favorite was the ergoErgo chair, which I definitely recommend looking up for any health-minded people out there. It is like a stool almost, but more comfortable, and looks like a plastic spring. It gives you the same type of work out as sitting on an exercise ball, however, it doesn't roll around or tip over like an exercise ball does. I tried one out and they're actually really fun! They just constantly kind of sway back and forth and work out all your core muscles as you sit! The sales representative said they should come out around January... and I'm seriously considering investing in one! Other than meeting with sales reps there were some career advising sessions where professionals would speak to you about the interview process and look over your resumes and portfolios. It was a good experience over all and pretty beneficial. Well I hope you all are doing well! Until next time!
Leeanna
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