I finished the first semester of my interior design program. I plan on posting a quick update with some of my final projects, but first, a few words on my summer class.
I’m taking computer aided drafting (AutoCAD). I have been looking forward to this class for several reasons. First, I like computers. I’m pretty handy with Photoshop, designed our wedding invitations and save-the-dates on Illustrator, and spent hours in front of PageMaker during my yearbooking days. So I’ve been interested to learn a new graphic program. Second, I like the drawings generated by hand drafting, but that gets messy and frustrating, and hard to erase when you make mistakes. Learning to do that neatly and cleanly on the computer sounds great.
Today was day two of my six week class. Yesterday was a bit slow, but that’s not entirely unexpected. First days are often spent going over the syllabus and other administrative matters. I was a little disappointed that the pace didn’t pick up a bit today. In fact, it slowed down. For this 8:00 a.m. class, the instructor did not start lecturing until nine. Because it’s a summer class and people — who voluntarily signed up for an 8:00 a.m. class — have trouble getting to school by eight. I really didn’t need an hour of lab time at the beginning of our second day of class; I was hoping to learn something new.
But it’s only day two, so I will keep an open mind and hopefully things will pick up. I still do think I will like working with AutoCAD. A number of my friends are in the class as well, so we should have some fun.
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