spring break just a week away!

How times flies. Next week is the last week of classes till spring break.
I have regrettably suffered from an injury this week. I have recently sliced part of my finger off while cutting a board for a model that I was building for class. While it is not terribly bad it is more of a nuisance because now I cannot use it to hold anything while I cut. It is just very inconvenient to say the least. Somehow I managed and it took me quite a while longer than it should have, but I finished my model. Beforehand, we built a model of stairs and for this last project we had to build walls around those stairs. It may sound simple, but this was one of the most difficult things I have done. We not only built the walls, but constructed them as well. My professor took an entire studio day to give us a lecture on how walls are constructed. We learned about columns, beams, studs, headers you named it we learned it. He helped us design our walls so they would be able to support our building around the windows we designed. As interior designers in school we are just able to stick a window here or add it there but with this project we had to understand the process in how to do so. So no longer will we just stick windows in a design because we now understand how structure works and what a pain it can be to structure a building around window. It is all very technical but it was well worth learning. It makes us design with a purpose not just "stick things in." It is not something you would think an interior designer needs to know (how to construct a wall) but I enjoy the fact that I pretty much understand how to do so. Of course we are not experts by any means, but now we have a foundation of understanding that we can grow off of.