I NEED A JOB FOR THE SUMMER

++ If you or anyone you know is hiring for the summer (non-salaried position) and want to hire a soon to be person with a masters degree in architecture, please email me or call me. i need a job. i'm not looking for a retail job. i'm not looking for a job in the food industry. i'm looking for a job in the architectural or engineering field. architectural prefebly, because i most likely don't know enough to be a productive engieneer employee. i also don't know if i would ever want to say i was a pseudo-engineer. that would hurt my soul. but then again, at the right price, anything is possible. hire me. please. ++

TECH CRITS

++ Wednesday was tech crit/midterm reviews. i pulled my first all-nighter on tuesday for the first time since about 2nd year. well, technically i got 45 minutes of sleep on the couch in studio, but it was intermittent at that and its only because i was waiting for my drawings to plot. so, it was more like a nap and less like sleep. oh, and i was sitting, not laying down. but because i know you care...tech crits went well. i showed them a bunch of stuff they had not seen yet..something about two independent structural systems, one of 30" concrete sitting in a rubble trench with 30" of rammed earth on of the concrete and the second a free-standing roof supported by 40" glulam beams sitting on huge concrete footings, slipping through the walls. its quite beautiful in section how these two overly huge systems can work simbiotically in such a confined space in such an extreme environment. the committee asked some provoking questions and brought up several points which were both useful and of value. one more hoop to jump through and then its time to pomp and circumstance my way outta here. ++

THE SUPERIOR SELF

++ "Look to your left. now look to your right. in front of you. and behind you. these are your classmates, but not the next six years. just for the moment. at the end of your six years here, only one of these people will still be your classmate." jerry larson said this to us at the freshman orientation 5.5 years ago. i can remember looking to my left and right and front and back and thinking, thats not going to be me. i'm not going to be one of the people who drop out. but then again, i think everyone thought that they weren't going to be the one dropping out. we all thought we were the superior self.
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anyone not performing up to their lofty goals feel inferior to others, even if their goals are unattianable or ridiculous.
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48 days left..++

97.66% FINISHED

++ First day of classes: september 18, 1998.
current day: april 25, 2004.
completed days since the first day of classes: 2047
days left until the final daap graduation: 49
percentage of completed days til graduation: 97.66%
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2047 days = 49,128 hours = 2,947,680 minutes = 176,860,800 seconds
2047 days = 292.43 weeks = 67.32 months = 5.61 years
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three quarters of tuition of graduate school at the university of cincinnati: $11,373
days for three quarters of classes at the university of cincinnati: 264
cost per day to be a graduate student (just tuition.) at the university of cincinnati: $43.08
cost per day to be a graduate student (everything) at the university of cincinnati: i don't want to even calculate it. it would depress me.
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POTENTIAL AND KINETIC DIRT?

++ Can dirt ever be created or destroyed?
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it accumulates. we 'clean' it up and toss whatever we used to 'clean' it up into the trash. so what does it mean really to 'clean' something? is it not really removing what is there and then applying a non-native replacement? think about it. we are merely moving dirt from one location to another. what does it mean to clean? isn't dirt really just another frame of reference which plays from our mind? what is clean to me isn't clean to you. if i were to buy a pair of new shoes and take them out of the box and then put them on my feet, would you consider those shoes squeeky clean and new? you might not even want to walk outside and instead wear them only indoors on carpet because you don't want to dirty up your shoes. now take those squeeky clean new shoes which are on your feet and sit down at the dinner table and prop your feet up on the table. chances are if you were at yoru grandparent's home or your parent's home or even better yet at any formal event, someone would scold you or yell at you and tell you to take your dirty shoes off the table. so what exactly does it mean to be clean? is everything clean and we just don't know it? maybe to be clean and dirty are the same thing. its only potential dirt or 'kinetic' dirt depending on your surroundings, the crowd present, and the situation. ++