Today is day 42. After today, I will only have 10 work days left at this internship. I have been relocated once again to an actual cubicle space again in a firm-wide restructuring. I like this space more because it is more open and I can talk to Charles, the person who sits next to me and a recent graduate from Pratt Institute. I am now doing almost no AutoCAD at the moment since I finished with the main design of the hotel I have spent the last month or so working on and I am simply just sitting around and observing.
Hrm, the internet has stopped working—at least the wireless router has been turned off or something is wrong with it at this moment. Oh well.
There is so much detail going into drawing these plans, sections, and elevations. In one aspect, it’s easy to do because nothing exists at this moment and you can draw it however you like. However, in another aspect it is extremely hard because there’s just so many possibilities as to what to draw. Knowing standard dimensions of random things helps a lot though such as door width and height or window dimensions or the standard distance between two columns, etc. I know some of these now—but everything is in metric.
I’m still in the process of finding a laptop for this coming school year. I am currently debating between getting an i5 or an i7 processor with the main issues being longer battery life vs more efficient processing for the programs that I’ll be using. There is also the issue of overheating with the i7 processors due to them having four cores vs only two for the i5. I have pretty much settled on the Toshiba though because it has gotten good reviews so far and nothing that is glaringly bad about it. I also haven’t owned anything other than Toshibas—Toshiba S2058, Toshiba M55, and Toshiba A305. Hopefully I will be able to add the Toshiba A665 to this lineup soon. Most of the Adobe and Autodesk programs will utilize four cores and potentially any computer game I may or may not play so I guess four cores would be nice. However, longer battery life wouldn’t be too bad either. Decisions, decisions.
More people have had funny reactions to the Padua photo that circulates through my laptop wallpaper.
I think I will get a haircut tonight. It is about time that I got one especially since it is quite convenient here and a lot cheaper. Also, Shanghai has decided to turn up the heat—which is actually a bit late in the season to start getting warm. I have two more weeks in Shanghai before I head back to the US though, so not too much suffering in this weather for me. I just hope Atlanta won’t be too bad when I head over for school.
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