Hi everyone!
My name is Ashley—I’m a junior econ major at Case Western in Cleveland, OH. This semester I’m interning at Ayers/Saint/Gross. It’s an architecture, campus planning, and urban planning firm. My passions, to name a few, are cities, public policy, economics, politics, creative writing, and Auto-CAD. No, I’m totally kidding about Auto-CAD. It’s just that thanks to my new job, the program and I have entered into a new and extremely intimate relationship; at night I dream about computer-aided designs.
This has been an extremely surreal few days. I still can’t believe I’m here. I keep walking around feeling very detached from myself—like I’m living in some alternate reality or in a dream. I’m hoping after a few more days I will get more used to it. TWC certainly doesn’t give you a lot of time to get adjusted to living here. Be prepared to just dive in head first to absolutely everything and be really really really really tired.
On a more positive note though, the apartments are BEAUTIFUL. The walk-in closet that my roommate (Jenny Lee, one of the other bloggers for this semester) and I share is just about the same size as our room. And in the afternoon, sunlight fills the whole apartment and it’s really quite peaceful. We can also see the tip of the Washington Monument from our sun room—cool! I took pictures of the apartment, but I’m having some technical difficulties…so stay tuned.
Lessons of the week:
1) Do not try and walk around the city in high heels. Buy dress flats.
2) Study the Metro lines BEFORE you get on the Metro. Utilize the Trip Planner on http://www.wmata.com/
3) Never pass up free food.
Later gators.
