“Oops,” and “Oh,” Says Sherard

by Sherard Harrington

Oops. Missed a day. Well, you saw my aforementioned admission of exhaustion.

Here’s what I’ve been up to—I have been chosen to participate in a Gateway Project! (What’s a Gateway Project?) Omg, funny of you to ask. So, a Gateway Project is kind of like that mid-step between working in a classroom and working in the field as an architect understudy of sorts. A Gateway Project is a semester long project where chosen students help out a firm, or a school, or a committee, doing things anywhere from redesigning a cafeteria for a school with students who have Autism to studying traffic flow in a square to see if an extra road is either necessary or even possible to incorporate.

Basically, a Gateway Project is the chance to intern. And I’m doing that. (Be proud—I’m getting practice experience.)

So, I am on a team of people who have drafted and are starting the process to implement a Climate Action Plan, which is this thing that a bunch of universities have signed in an attempt to lower their net carbon emissions over the next few decades. And I have been editing that.

And I’ve also been building more models for school. I’m really proud of this one. I don’t know why.

I think it’s the regal cardboard strip that prevents the marble from escaping down a design hole. Oops on that too!

Oh, and by the way, I don’t know why I chose today of all the days, but I’m drinking “LVP” tea from The Hooker Tea Company, which stands for Lavender-Vanilla Rooibos-Peppermint, which I absolutely love. Best tea blend I have ever tasted. It’s just one of those days I guess. And it’s made more special by the fact that you have to go in-store to get it. (And the store is 1,300+ miles away, back home in St. Petersburg, Florida.)

Hehe, Hooker.