Rawrchitecture, Rawrbooted

It has been close to a year since we've last posted anything. This is a notice that we are still alive, and perhaps more of a motivator for me to continue posting. As a class, we have completed the first leg of our architectural journey. Graduation was in May and we are now about to be spread all over America and spilling over a little to Europe. Alex will be in New York and I will be in London for this coming year. These are the two places worth mentioning since we are the only two write for this sparsely populated blog.

For me, the notion of a reboot applies to more than just this blog. It is starting new in a different country and an unfamiliar place, save only for a common language. I first experienced this last night, when lugging the bare requirements of my year around from Heathrow airport via tube to Kings Cross. Then finding the apartment I had found online and secured over Skype in the midst of London's drunkest young people with no way of contacting anyone.

I hope this experience will be mild compared to what this year will have in store for me. I want to realign the focus of this blog into something more personal, an authentic look through our eyes into the experiences brought on by our good fortune being students of architecture. Look forward to posts revisiting experiences in the past four years we've been too preoccupied to post, updates on what we are going through this year, and perhaps a few passionate ramblings brought about by a few too many beers.

My Life as an Intern: Week ?, New Employee Training

What employee training was like

It has really been a blur. Working overtime, not working overtime, doing projects, not doing anything, doing everything. I think the biggest contributing factor is having people at work to joke around with. Everything passed so quickly, but I'd like to stop for a moment to talk about the Employee Training I relieved on Saturday.

Employee training is at most points, quite the waste of time. Most of the material covered I learned already through making mistakes and asking those around me. However, one point that made everything worth it was learning about how the company really works and is run. I don't know how much the confidentiality agreement I signed allows me to say, but I will not go into too many specifics.

Learning about what the company does, what other departments do, and how everything ties together really helps me to understand what I do. Not only does this lessen the confusion, but it also points me in a direction to work towards. Knowing my place, and where everyone else fits around or , in this case, above me, lets me know what I contribute and how I contribute.

Employee training made me realize that how little I thought I knew about the company, is really minuscule compared to what I learned in an hour of lecture. Things that I know now (if I'm not an intern, I get dental coverage!) make me less blind. Although I am still a blind intern fish frustratingly crashing into walls, at least now I now know the walls are those of a fishbowl.