Meet Ryan Skolny (the horizontal dude above) from Reading, PA.  He's one of the many emerging professionals I met at ASLA's annual meeting in Phoenix last month.  I met so many enthusiastic people - it was awesome!  I heard from many…

Last post, we met Rebecca Sunter, graduate student and summer intern. Luckily, I was also able to talk to Chris Pattillo of PGAdesign in Oakland, CA which was one of the firms Rebecca worked for this summer. Chris graciously spent her lunch hour with…

Last post, I yammered on a little about mentorship; something that I think is tremendously valuable and rare. Useful information doesn’t always come from “above”, though, and I think we’ve got a lot to learn from all levels – so this time I wanted to find out what it was like…

A mentor is a person who is more experienced than you are (in either the same field or a closely related one) who helps and guides you in your career. I thought this concept was simple enough until I had a few conversations with someone who’s direct supervisor is called his “mentor”. “Baloney!” I…

I love how stuff comes together sometimes. I recently overheard a conversation between a firm principal and a prospective Landscape Architecture student. This principal probably spent 45 min answering questions, and gave out plenty of information about the profession. They reminded me of discussions I had when I was a student which got me…