The last two weeks have been quite a journey. It's not even real class time yet, and I can't remember when I was so stressed out. Quick overview of the first week, I had to sketch up a piece of cloth, then dissect the piece of cloth and note down the sections that I made, then take the sections and distort it axonometrically (on a 45 degree angle with no perspective) and recreate the piece of cloth in drawing. I didn't take specific pictures of it... so if you can't understand hold on. I have a final picture of everything I've done I'll put in last.
The second week we were asked to come up with 3 polygons. With these 3 polygons, we moved onto model making. I had to somehow orientate these shapes in a way that they create a volume. Like so:

That was one day's worth of work. So you can start to understand that I'm little short on time. The next thing we had to do was pick out one model and create a final model, where every little detail mattered. Not allowed to show glue, edges, and no imperfections. I had Wednesday and Thursday to do this. Meanwhile, I also have to make a collage in photoshop to put this model in a real life situation. Shiet... I'm running low on time. By Thursday night I had this finished:

 So as you can see, I am far from being finished. I didn't even start my collage yet! After I got home I mocked up a version of the collage but I needed to have my final model finished before I can do the final collage.
The presentation was held at 1pm Friday, so I had the morning to finish my project. Guess what it decides to do? FALL APART ON ME. CRAP. So I had to think fast. Tape. Lets tape the shit out of it. And tape it I did. 11am and I had this finished:

Not bad right? Can't see the tape? Me neither, until I looked closely. O.M.G I'm screwed. But I needed to move on. I needed to have some sort of collage to show. So at about 12:30pm, I had this done up and it was good enough for me since I had to start setting up for my presentation.

Haha it's not even that different from my photo. BUT IT SHOWS SCALE. When it was my turn to be critiqued, they didn't mention too much about my craft, since I preemptive striked them by saying I didn't have time to understand how to use the materials I chose. Btw it's made of corrugated plastic, illustration board, and SCOTCH TAPE. The critics were 2 profs I would encounter throughout my first year and the two third year students running the workshop. They seemed to like the idea, since no one else had the idea of inversing the shapes and creating a giant void. Anyway, this is how I presented it:

 And this is the kind of pressure we were under (although this isn't my presentation)

After wrapping up the two weeks of preparation, the two students running the show decide to invite us out to have a beer at the Graduate Student Union Pub (GSU Pub). We were a party of 9. We started with 2 pitchers, then I bought one, then someone else bought one, then another, then another 2. By 9pm, the leftover 6 of us were about 10 pitchers deep. I was quite drunk, I can't remember what we talked about but it was pretty intense. That's what beer does. It makes people want to talk very loud and passionate about anything. I do remember talking about our hobbies and interests, and it turns out that we all like the same kind of stuff. Ya I'm sure you guys are like "jeeze Jeff no shit Sherlock you guys are all architect geeks" but noooo noo nooooo. The friends I made in this workshop come from a Biology, Micro-Biology, Psychology, Econ, and something that sounded really crazy that I forgot. ALSO, my new friend from Biology REJECTED his acceptance to med school to do architecture (I guess he didn't do his research on what kind of wages an architect makes).

After these two weeks, stress aside, I had a lot of fun. I didn't stay late at school because I had to (well that's not the ONLY reason) but I WANTED to stay and work on my model and my drawings. I think I'm gonna fit in just fine. =)

Big thanks to Melissa Tovar and Ultan Byrne, the two who ran the workshop for the two weeks.