New start

I went to the first studio class for the new program that I have just transferred to (architectural computing) this week. This degree is quite different from interior architecture, which I had been sufferring for 3 years. All design studios from interior are about design, design, and design. I like design, but those studios did make me stressful. Uni life was equivalent to no life for me, but it is not the case anymore :)

Digital collaboration studio that I have enrolled is a new course, in which we work on a group project. I hardly knew anyone in this class on my first day. Felt a bit nervous, helpless and lost when we were asked to form a group of four or five people. Finally I was invited in to a group.

Our group is somehow different from other groups, because Stacey, Liming, Mydung and I, none of us knew each other before hand. I felt kind of uncomfortable at the very beginning cause I always working a group with people that I know. However, after chatting to them for a while, I suprisingly found that we all come from different backgrounds, compared to the majority group of people, who started doing architectural computing (full-time) from 2 years ago. Mydung and Stacey are working in the office as full-time workers; Liming went to exchange in UK last year; and I was doing another degree under the same faculty. It is interesting that our backgrounds somehow brought us together, and it may be a good try because we all have different strengths, skills and personalities.

We met up again on the next day (Thur) to have a tutorial. Unfortunately, first conflict appeared. Someone was late... It was annoying to the rest of us because it had been a long day for all of us! I understand that something unexpected does happen, but sometimes it is caused by bad time management. Similar thing happened again today. We were supposed to meet up today, but someone (same person) said that she couldn't turn up today, therefore our meeting was cancelled. I know it is difficult to compromise a time to meet up since all of us have got uni or work going on. However, if you do respect someone or something, you will squeeze you time, won't you? Anyway, hopefully we can work out that problem by this week...