Miscommunication

When I worked for my architecture firm as an intern, I had a miscommunication with one of the architects there for one project I had to do. He gave me a project where I had to take the existing plans and sections of a building, which were hand drawn, and get them digitized in CAD. The drawings were scanned and he recommended that I overlay the image of the drawing and use it as reference. However I thought he wanted me to simply trace over the drawing. The dimensions ended up being all wrong. I didn't know I was supposed to use the plans. In the end I fixed it. It was really a stupid mistake on my part as I was supposed to realize what I was supposed to do, but I had thought he didn't really need the dimensions to be right, that he just needed them rough. I learned the hard way that that is never the case in architecture.

My Business Writing Portfolio

....is located at https://sites.google.com/a/g.clemson.edu/tylers-business-writing-portfolio/

Presentations and Online Portfolios

1. Will had a really neat presentation about guitar tops. I had no idea that the type of wood used for the guitar has an effect on the sound the guitar produces. As a newcomer to guitar playing (and I have been practicing my new guitar a lot in the past couple months), It was useful information. I'm not going to say that my own presentation was my favorite (which would be arrogant) but I do want to note that I enjoyed going back into my picture file and seeing the map of Prague again. It brought back some fun memories and reminded me of how much I am DYING to travel.

2. My one experience with making an online portfolio was a mess! It was English 103, which was first semester freshman year. We had a good teacher but she was definitely nowhere as computer savvy an English teacher as Angie is. So she wasn't really able to help us navigate the blackboard app for making eportfolios, which was what everyone was required to use. We all eventually figured it out. I also remember hearing all these rumblings that we had to complete an eportfolio to graduate, which I was hearing from the english teachers but not from anyone in the architecture department. It had turned out that the class that started in 2005 did not have to complete one (at least the architecture majors), but 2006 archies do have to. So that was a relief.

Presentations

I enjoyed the presentation about vinyl records. I didn't know that people still made vinyl records or that there was any advantage to using vinyl records, other than being retro or stylish. Apparently, the sound is actually cleaner on vinyl records. After seeing the presentation I may actually be interested in getting a turntable and some records of some of my favorite classic rock bands. The vinyl records he brought in were effective props.

Another presentation I enjoyed was the "tournament" deciding who was the best athlete in the world, which was entertaining. Not only was I interested in who he thought was the best athlete in the world and why, but I enjoyed hearing his humorous reasons for why each person won each tournament round. He presented effectively for what he was trying to do.