About the School: The New and Enhanced Version

I thought Mount Holyoke was the most magical place on Earth where unicorns ate rainbows and butterflies were besties with purple squirrels. That was before I got there. Soon after my arrival, the school's enchantment wore off after a couple weeks and I started wondering what college life would be like at other schools. There I was, three weeks into the semester silently wishing that I could change schools or hoping that someday Mount Holyoke would prove that it was a good fit for me. One and a third semesters and a handful of decisions and occurrences later, I found myself at home in New York and in bed much too often.

That previous January, I applied to City College's Spitzer School of Architecture right here at home. Five months later, I was accepted and five months of hair-pulling over my uncertain future had come to an end.

I chose this school because 1, it's cheap. While at Mount Holyoke, I met a guy who attended UMass Amherst and when asked why he picked UMass, he said "because it's cheap" and that line firmly planted itself in my head. 2, it's in NYC AKA the greatest place on the world AKA home. I intend to commute the hour and a half to school for the next four (or five) years while silently wishing for a private bus service to take me to school everyday. Regardless: Oh boy, METROCARD fare... (sigh). Number 3: I had taken a summer architecture class there and it basically molded the way that I envision architecture school. Whatever they say, goes.

In the end, I'm just a normal kid in kollege.

She's Back!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend, everyone! Hope you're spending tomorrow at the beach and I hope it won't be as blustery as today is.

But on the topic of college, City College's Spitzer School of Architecture has welcomed me with wide open, warm, loving arms! (hoorah, break out the sparklers!) To be frank, I was slightly fearful that I would not be accepted. But why? you may ask. Isn't City College a public university that anybody can go to?! Yes, that is correct: City College is part of NYC's CUNY university system. However, because I specifically applied to their school of architecture, the admissions committee is much more selective. I also doubted my acceptance because to be honest, the Creative Challenge that I was required to submit was really, really bad. In comparison to the same assignment I had submitted a year prior, this one was a lackluster effort completed within a week without much regard.

But in the end, I'm going back to college and all is well! I'll be a freshman without the comedic freshman naïveté.

Stay tuned for August 28, the first day of the rest of my life (but not really)

I also have to change that banner.