I'm $50 bucks richer...

I have been saying that I've been looking for a job for the last couple months, but this week I started making phone calls. Two to firms in Charleston and one in Chicago. So far nothing has come of them, which is to be expected I guess, But at least my name is out there. I will be spending the week in the mac lab in lee hall completing my portfolio. whoopee...

But the more exciting thing that happened this week would be the studio charrette that we did. A couple of architects came in with two different sites and told us to do research on them and then design a gallery for each site. My group was not working well together as of Wednesday at 3 when our bosses/clients came around for our desk crit; so we were given 30 mins to come together and figure out what we wanted to do. We did and everyone was happy. Friday we presented and turns out it was a competition. Everyone voted our design the best out of the group.... I've never won anything especially for any thing I've worked on, so this kinna made my weekend. So now i have to update my resume to include award winner. :-D

Cover Letters

I thought that the advice for the cover letters was helpful. To me thats the hardest part about trying to get a job. Your resume is either impressive or it's not, and if they like your resume then its up to the cover letter. The hardest part is the balance of how much of you to put in the letter and how much of them to talk about. Finding a graceful way to show off how much you know about what they do is difficult. I guess its like a sales pitch in writing - why i would be a good addition, look how much i already know; that kind of thing.

I also liked the advice of no mass letters. Thats hard to do when you're looking at entry level positions, but if it puts you above the rest then thats a good thing. It also makes the selection of where you want to apply a more important thing. You don't just apply where they are hiring, but where you want to work, a good thing if you get the job,but then you also may just get your hopes up....

the whole process is very tiring, which is why the cover letter advice is incredibly helpful!

Real Interview Notes

Thankfully I was able to do my interview via phone this weekend, which was nice. I can't decide whether i would be more compfortable with a face to face interview than one that i could do in my pj's... i think that it being on the phone had a slightly "word-y" effect on me. I felt like i rambled on a little too much, and i don't know if being face to face would nip that in the but or not. Other than that I think it went ok... the real thing is going to be a little different --- and be different i mean much harder. oh well


as for the topic at hand i thought that everyones presentations were really good... the ones that stick out are the football one, the chicken one, and the pastry one. the football one was awesome cause i really had no idea just how intense being a player was, so it was cool to have an insight like that. The chicken one was awesome cause girl brought a chicken in to the class room!! and thats just cool! and then of course i loved kyle's cause a) he's in my group, and b) he made really tasty pastries! so i think he wins over all!



ps..... spring break is in 6 days and nothing is better than that! until tomorrow when it will be 5 and so on and so forth!!!!!

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so i didn't have my interview this week so i don't know what to write. so i guess i'll talk about the job i just found. well i found one to apply to. its in chicago, which is perfect. cause i loved chicago. its with a really small firm, only 9 registered architects, which is also what i was looking for. they have great benefits, and they are looking for interns with close to no experience, which i have a little experience so i might have a leg up on the competion. so now im just working on my portfolio and waiting to practice my interview skills. and then i'll apply, and hopefully get the job!