MENTOR / MENTEE CLASS has field trips on thursday afternoons and planning sessions with jim on fridays. fridays are spent reviewing the previous trips and preparing for the upcoming trips with great stories and laughter and comedy from jim. thursdays are spent with the freshmen architecture, interior, pre-architecture and pre-interior students taking them to places on field trips and feebly trying to communicate to them the concepts and ideas about architecture given to us.
"i suggest we go to the 48th floor of the carew tower. from there we can look at the whole of cincinnati from god's perspective. you know, assuming god works from the 48th floor."
after asking a freshman what the difference between space and place was, they replied, "guilt, hate, shame, revenge, love."
"believe me, if my face looks funny, don't worry about it."
"aim for mars and be happy if you hit the moon."
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"Auto response from FJArtz (8:31:26 PM): Discovery Channel (0-4, 55 goals against) vs.The Medicine Shoppe (0-3, 16 goals against) tonight 9:20 pm at the Sportsplex....come attend the battle for futility" ++
Friday, February 20, 2004
Thursday, February 19, 2004
THE CROWD AND ME.
++ WHAT DO YOU do when the remedy to the problem is the root cause of the problem?
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i sometimes feel very alone. its not because i don't have friends. i do. and they try. i know they try. its just that i don't have very many people if any for that matter who i can relate to. i don't have someone who is like me or similar to me who i can look to for advice and guidance. yeah, sure i have my parents. yeah, sure i have my friends. yeah, sure i have mentors. but i don't have someone who is a second-generation half asian, half caucasian who comes from middle-class suburbia who i can look to and confide in. everybody else have people or can easily find people to relate to ethnically and socially. i am surrounded by friends who mean well, but have been brought up without knowing the things they say or without knowing the meanings and consequences of the things they say. my parents raised me as if i were like all my friends, which has brought at least two things to my attention.
1. i am like everyone else, in that i have a heart, a brain, a body, i make my own decisions and live by their consequences.
2. i am not like everyone else, in that i am partly asian, and its even more present in the environment i live and work and play in, the people i hang out with and am friends with, the discussions and language and jokes which come from them.
who do i go to, to talk about things which bother me? do i turn to god? he works on his own time. do i turn to my parents? they sort of haev a clue, but even then they haev different backgrounds and their experiences come from a very different time and different generation. where is 'my crowd'? and yet sometimes when i surrounded by 'my crowd' or dare i say a room full of asians, i feel uncomfortable. other times it doesn't bother me. how would you feel if you had to be in this environment everyday of your life? if you lived and grew up and matured in this environment? would you even know, because you had no other frame of reference? naively no. gradually, yes. over time, yes. what happens after you discover 'how things really are'? what do you say to your friends who have no idea they offend or say derogatory or insensitive comments? would they even know, because its a part of their everyday and even your own everyday language and custom. its alright if they say it and then laugh about it right? i mean its just a joke.. or it has no malicious intent, right? but would they even say it if you weren't around? who do i turn to for help and guidance? talk to me. don't fix me. don't cater to my needs and wants. don't pity me. just talk to me. seriously. right now, its just the crowd and me. ++
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i sometimes feel very alone. its not because i don't have friends. i do. and they try. i know they try. its just that i don't have very many people if any for that matter who i can relate to. i don't have someone who is like me or similar to me who i can look to for advice and guidance. yeah, sure i have my parents. yeah, sure i have my friends. yeah, sure i have mentors. but i don't have someone who is a second-generation half asian, half caucasian who comes from middle-class suburbia who i can look to and confide in. everybody else have people or can easily find people to relate to ethnically and socially. i am surrounded by friends who mean well, but have been brought up without knowing the things they say or without knowing the meanings and consequences of the things they say. my parents raised me as if i were like all my friends, which has brought at least two things to my attention.
1. i am like everyone else, in that i have a heart, a brain, a body, i make my own decisions and live by their consequences.
2. i am not like everyone else, in that i am partly asian, and its even more present in the environment i live and work and play in, the people i hang out with and am friends with, the discussions and language and jokes which come from them.
who do i go to, to talk about things which bother me? do i turn to god? he works on his own time. do i turn to my parents? they sort of haev a clue, but even then they haev different backgrounds and their experiences come from a very different time and different generation. where is 'my crowd'? and yet sometimes when i surrounded by 'my crowd' or dare i say a room full of asians, i feel uncomfortable. other times it doesn't bother me. how would you feel if you had to be in this environment everyday of your life? if you lived and grew up and matured in this environment? would you even know, because you had no other frame of reference? naively no. gradually, yes. over time, yes. what happens after you discover 'how things really are'? what do you say to your friends who have no idea they offend or say derogatory or insensitive comments? would they even know, because its a part of their everyday and even your own everyday language and custom. its alright if they say it and then laugh about it right? i mean its just a joke.. or it has no malicious intent, right? but would they even say it if you weren't around? who do i turn to for help and guidance? talk to me. don't fix me. don't cater to my needs and wants. don't pity me. just talk to me. seriously. right now, its just the crowd and me. ++
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
CERTAINTIES IN LIFE
++ CERTAINTIES IN LIFE. (also in no particular order)
1. death
2. taxes (ok, thats a joke.)
2. gravity
3. light
can't think of others.
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i slept 13 hours last night! and it was great. and i was awake at 9.00am and actually awake, not just the 'awake' i normally am at 9am. ++
1. death
2. taxes (ok, thats a joke.)
2. gravity
3. light
can't think of others.
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i slept 13 hours last night! and it was great. and i was awake at 9.00am and actually awake, not just the 'awake' i normally am at 9am. ++
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
FIVE BASIC EMOTIONS
++ FIVE BASIC EMOTIONS in life. (in no particular order)
1. guilt
2. hate
3. shame
4. revenge
5. love
are there others? ++
1. guilt
2. hate
3. shame
4. revenge
5. love
are there others? ++
Monday, February 16, 2004
NOTHING IN GERMAN
++ I HAVE LIVED with two german girls for 5 months now and i have learned absolutely nothing in german. kathleen had her boyfriend over for 10 days, so we lived with three germans for a while and i didn't learn any german. now kathleen has 5 of her friends over so we are living with 7 germans and oddly enough i still have learned absolutely nothing in german. its all become white noise now. background. whenever any of our friends come over and here them speaking german, they always stop and try to figure out what they are saying. always. never fails. me? nothing. half of the time i don't even hear them. however, that may because i don't hear well.
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thoughts and prayers, friend. thoughts and prayers.
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hypothetical question:
you are designing an architectural project. ok, thats not the question, that was actually a statement. the question comes at the end of the statement. so you are designing an architectural project. you have a faculty mentor who is directing your studies and design. you go to him every other day to have a dialogue on the progress of the design. they supply you with ideas and ask questions significant in the directino of yoru design. the question is; is this really your design, assuming that the faculty mentor is more or less 'telling' you how to do it? ++
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thoughts and prayers, friend. thoughts and prayers.
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hypothetical question:
you are designing an architectural project. ok, thats not the question, that was actually a statement. the question comes at the end of the statement. so you are designing an architectural project. you have a faculty mentor who is directing your studies and design. you go to him every other day to have a dialogue on the progress of the design. they supply you with ideas and ask questions significant in the directino of yoru design. the question is; is this really your design, assuming that the faculty mentor is more or less 'telling' you how to do it? ++
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