“Your confessions from last summer are hilarious!”
-Dame
I’d also like to say my confessions are on point. I do a lot of things that people don’t have the opportunity or intestinal fortitude to do. And while doing said activities, I always find a way to forget, omit, hide, share my wisdom with someone. I haven’t done this from my last summer experiences and in order to start this summer off right, I have to purge the confessions and realizations.
1. ‘No’ is one of my favorite words
I’m really accommodating to people I love. Always trying to help out and make life a little bit easier for them. For people I could care less about, No has always been my favorite word. The task has been being able to tell people that I love No. Sometimes it’s necessary to just make sure that no one is taking advantage of you. Fam will do it to. Oh yea. It happens.
2. I’m a jerk (to most) and don’t hide it
This confession kind of goes with number 1. I really take pride and pleasure don’t feel bad for people that rub me the wrong way. There’s someone as we speak in this world that I would not share a stick of spearmint with. And it’s not a ‘you suck’, facebook-type dislike. That’s immature. You have to do something that makes me become the ultimate jerk towards you and some people have achieved it. And to them I say, ‘Yo house is that-a-way’1
3. Everyone will not know/care/pity/empathize what you’re going through and they don’t need to. Man/Woman Up
Self-explanatory
4. My friends are awesome
Again. Self-explanatory
5. Romantic Relationships that are ‘serious’ during architecture never work
I remember when I started architecture school my junior year and I had a girlfriend who worked not 700 feet from where I went to school. One day, a friend older than I and also in the school asked me if I had a girl. I said yes and he replied, “Yeah, that won’t last.” Long story short: He was right. Twice. Architecture school is a jealous, angry, vengeful, and demanding whore profession. Now there are always exceptions to the rule but for the most part, if you have a SO, you better get all you can out of them while you have them because sooner or later one of those questions is going to be asked2 and then it’s over. Take my advice, find someone right before the semester is over, or you are about to graduate. It will be so much better for the both of you.
6. The apartment where I rented a room in Spain
Yea. I have nothing to really say about this. I just didn’t tell the ‘rents because I didn’t want them to worry. Though sometimes I think they think I’m an degenerate incapable of making sound decisions, if I sensed danger, my spider sense would have done off and I would have been out. Never happened so I stayed and made sure all my stuff was locked up. All the time. And I bought my own sheets.
7. I have a type of woman I pursue. Spanish
Every girl that has asked me this and I told you ‘I don’t have one.’ I lied. Though my dating past is as checkered as a Benetton ad, the thing that remains consistent is that Spanish girls have almost always found a way into my life. And that goes for all derivatives of Spanish fyi (Puerto Rican, Dominican, Nicaraguan, Colombian, girls actually from Spain
8. I cried 3 months after I got home from Spain
Yeah. Cried like a newborn infant baby Jesus fresh from the womb. Ultimately, it wasn’t because I didn’t have a job. It was because of my pure frustration and feeling of being ‘up the creek without a paddle.’ I have all these papers that say I’m good at what I do but I couldn’t get a job for the life of me. I think I thought I was recession-proof. I was naïve. Not anymore. I’m glad that it happened though. As soon as I was done, it was as if I had purged all doubt of ‘I can do this.” After I finished, I just got up cleaned my face, and started sending out more resumes, networking, and maybe three months later, I’m good. Though it may not be exactly what I want, it’s teaching me so much about my profession.
9. I want to start an architecture firm called either ArrowNBowman (ANB for short) or FreshSlice and have an office in Detroit
Let’s be honest. Architecture is a business. I like money. You like money. But I like owning things that make me money as well. So that’s where the firm comes into place. The names are already Trademark registered so it’s just a matter of making everything else fall into place.
10. I still have animosity toward my Thesis Advisor
Architecture is hard to get through. Architectural Thesis is damn near impossible when everyone is laughing at your ideas behind your back. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not the ‘their out to get me’ type, but when you work you’re a** off, present your thesis, have your thesis photos plastered all over the school website for the purpose of attracting more people to the university, get congratulations from a plethora of people, and have a Thesis Critic say “[the ideas in your presentation and project] is why I came to these presentations” I think it’s safe to say you deserve to graduate. My thesis advisor didn’t. We argued. I won. Went from having an Incomplete to an ‘A’. Yes, I said an A. Things that make you go hmmmmm.
11. The University of Michigan
After I graduated from Grad School
12. I saved TCAUP from a big ass law suit
1. Phrase coined in Spain
2. Please refer to ‘Parents Guide To Having An Architecture Kid’
Now that this is out in the open, let the new summer begin!
ThomasBowman Out.
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1 comments:
Nice post Kendal. I'm with you on everything except #5 just because I'm your exception. Glad you finally found a job and it's not killing you. I like the trademarks, but you need to post more often. Drop me a line if you get a chance.
Tyson
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