DONE!

Thank goodness it is almost spring. The week is wrapping up and by the end of today I will be completely done with all of my academics. However, this has been one stressful week. We had our first ever presentation to a real client yesterday. I am usually good about keeping my nerves under control in situations such as these but I actually started biting my nails, I was that nervous. It ended up going alright. Some of my classmates when they were done were upset because they forgot to say things that they wanted to. I did not want that to happen so I formulated a note card with key phrases on it so I could just glance and keep my thoughts. I was nervous about using a note card because I did not want to read off it. A couple of my classmates read straight off their paper barely looking up. So I used key phrases and important words on my note card, therefore, I would not be able to read off full sentences.

We take a lot for granted in our class critiques. For example, we rely on the rest of our class mates to know what a floor plan is and a perspective. My class mates understand how to look at a design and translate it. Real clients, however, have no such knowledge. When we were describing our design to the client we had to go into such detail and do a lot of finger pointing to get our ideas across. We had to take him little by little through our design and some of the drawings he could not understand what relation you were in from the overall design. All in all, it was a good experience and it is something that will help me get better at my presentation skills.