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ha! where have you been all my life?

haha Jason – I always thought you were looking either nonplussed or seriously scholarly….

I’m in Maryland…and I am angry…
 

Hi everyone,
 
Thanks for all the response so far! love the helpfulness of everyone :). So, I’m going to be working till mid August, and will be spending 2 hrs a day commuting to and from work on the train and want to use that time productively.
 
While I will be doing the Lynda tutorials on the weekends, and maybe afterwork – are there any b…[Read more]

Jason,
Where do you hale from?

In your picture you look so angry…very intimidating…

Jason, I agree with your assessment. I am waiting on results from E, and assuming I passed, I will only have D left to take. As others have mentioned, that puts me in an interesting predicament. I started the tests a little over one year ago. Had I known section D was going to be such a lynch pin I would have taken it first, rather than starting…[Read more]

Hi Lola! I am in  the EXACT same situation as you. I have passed every section except E. I had a good 4 years left to get this one section taken care of, so when i found out i was pregnant, i figured i would just take the next year off and start up again once the baby madness calmed down a bit. I’m with you- being forced to take the test in…[Read more]

hello :D!!!

You (and anybody else in the middle of taking the tests) might want to contact CLARB and tell them the new timeframe just doesn’t work. If you already have the exam substantially completed, and the previous set of exams gave you a set time in which to complete them once started, I would hold them to that agreement. NCARB gave architects several Y…[Read more]

Hi all,
I’ve already posted about my situation on the facebook discussion wall, so I apologize if you’re reading it again, but I’m wondering if anyone on this forum will have insight. 
I’ve passed A, B, C, and D.  I took E once and didn’t pass.  I still have four years, I believe, to pass, and there haven’t been any jobs in my area (Sacramento) si…[Read more]

The fee is insane! You can take most, if not all of those programs through your own university or local community college. The Art department usually offers such courses for undergrads. I learned Photoshop, Illustrator and a host of other softwares thru my Art department at Univ of Idaho.
Autocad in 2 weeks? Please don’t make me laugh. Autocad the…[Read more]

Folks, I said this already. The homeless do not pay taxes or vote! End of story. Any kind of shelters being build will have to primarily come from private donations. No elected officials are going to channel taxpayers money into building several homeless shelters when our schools and infrastructure are crumbling down. Not happening. The VA and…[Read more]

Laura, if you’re looking for examples of humanitarian-minded design, I suggest looking at the Open Architecture Network (http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/). Architecture for Humanity started it as a global database for designs oriented for people who generally cannot afford a designer. You might find some “current” research or project examples…[Read more]

Yeah, unfortunately I’ve already realized I will need a backup plan.  As it stands, I couldn’t even find an internship for this summer where I’d get paid relatively cheaply and get no benefits.

Cool!  Thanks!

Yes–I wasn’t trying to exclude any group in my posts, just point out some of them.  I’m glad to hear the gov’t is doing some good things for Vets now; I’ve heard some pretty terrible stories in recent years (although I think they were all related to funding and mental health–the rate of suicide of vets was disturbing–and not about…[Read more]

Thanks for the newspaper suggestion.  And if I may play devil’s advocate for a moment: I understand the reasoning for your initial point in this post, but isn’t a blanket assumption that all advocacy-type organizations exaggerate or inflate their data (which seems to be what you are implying, so forgive me if that’s not what you meant) also a…[Read more]

No problem, Trace, and thanks for your additional thoughts.  I know it’s a touchy subject for a lot of people, so I knew I was taking the chance of getting incendiary comments (although I don’t consider yours such; I haven’t yet read the rest of the posts, so I may yet find some).  Mostly I just wanted to see what things LAs and others have been t…[Read more]

Sorry missed the previous post with Lynda.