HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I hope everyone had a marvelous New Years Eve! It sure was weird receiving texts from friends and family two hours ahead of me celebrating the new year.
In the morning I attended the last COP meeting. It was important for us to be there, since we were electing the next President, Vice President, and the 4 Quad Directors for 2012 - 2013 school year. I never realized how important these roles are.
At the meeting finances were discussed. If anyone wants to join AIAS for the remainder of the year, you just have to pay half (so either $23 or $24).
Also, faculty gets free membership AND registration at conferences. (I'm pretty sure that's correct).
It was freezing in this conference room. After finance discussion, the floor was open to New Business. If anyone had anything to say, they were free to. I raised my placard and said "It's freezing in here. Can we please turn the heat on?" Quickly after, a lot of other Presidents raised their placards to second me. Everyone laughed. Joshua, the CEO of AIAS stood up, took off his suit jacket and walked over and gave it to me. I wore it for most of the meeting.
We had two round table discussions during the meeting.
The one that I was more engaged in was "How can we better integrate trans-disciplinary opportunities into architecture education? How does it affect the future of architecture?
---I was thrilled to have this question. I listen to what other students say. They talk about having
competitions with engineers and so forth. One student made the point that on their campus, none of their
design majors are relatively close to each other on their campus.
I just have to say that I am INCREDIBLY proud to be part of NC State.
I mention that we have 5 different design majors at our school, and that we're encouraged to take a swing studio.
The other 8 people at my table were in complete shock. They all said it was fantastic.
I can assure you, that NC State was the only school that has this.
I'm also proud to say that I'm part of the FYE (First Year Experience). For those of you who do not attend NCSU,
as undergrads, our freshman year we have a studio with all of the majors mixed in (industrial design, graphic design,
landscape architecture, art and design, and architecture).
I know most of us at State don't realize how lucky we are to have this opportunity to be exposed to these other majors.
Meeting ended, and I walked around outside and sketched until the General Session (the last one!)
The last Roll Calls....keep in mind this is the day after the beaux arts ball and last day of Forum.
One school stood up and started singing "In the desert, the mighty desert, nobody slept last night!" (aka "in the jungle, the mighty jungle
the lion sleeps tonight...")
Another school had a guy up at the podium singing "I just got FORUM-ed, and it felt so good!" (this is based off
of that song "i just got drunk.....and it felt so good!")
Another school stood up. Told everyone else to stand up and turn to the left. Then they yelled out "MASSAGE TRAIN!"
As I walk up, for NC STATE, the Vice President doesn't see me and calls out the next school. Haha.
All worked out though.
I get to the podium, and let me tell you, I have never spoken in front of so many people before.
I mentioned that NC State hasn't been very active the past few years in AIAS and that I am thrilled to be here representing our school
on my first Forum experience! I honestly had a wonderful time.
That night, or should I say morning, my 4 classmates took off on their roadtrip.
The next morning, I went to the lobby to check out.
Bryce Gamper comes up to me and hugs me and tells me that he's glad I had my first Forum experience.
The view from the Phoenix Airport. It didn't even seem real, the views are wonderful.
Oh, I forgot to say! While we're on our tour to Scottsdale, the tour guide said the mountains in the distance are called Camel Back Mountains because the mountains look like two humps......uhhhhh don't all mountains look like a camel's humps? hahahaha
Sketching sure does kill time when you arrive at the airport 3 hours before your flight.
The view outside the plane window of Dallas. WOW!
I got home around 1 a.m. this morning.
I wish I had blogged more while I was there, but it was nice to relive what I experienced over the past 5 days all at once at home.
Let's just say, I miss it.
To everyone that I met, thanks for reading - and I hope to see you at the next Forum (if not sooner)!
And I hope my fellow classmates have a safe road trip home!
Forum photos/sketches of the past 4 blogs: Nicole Hatjioannou: 12.28.11 - 1.2.12
YAY ARCHITECTURE!
I would love to tell more stories about my trip, so find me at State to hear more!
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