If you are a leader, Make sure you give props.

I’m not going to lie, school was hard, emotionally, metally, and physically, but that is what I was paying for. To rip me down and build me back up. The tougher professors I am indebted to. Find the tough ones, get extra time with them. It will be worth it!

We lived in parallel universes yo.

I knew it was going to be a tough year when Papanek’s replacement took a look at a rendering that I’d been working on for an hour or so (way too much time for what it was) wadded it up and told me not to get too “in love” with my sketching. I immediately hated his guts, but within a week I was sketching a lot faster, and as a result I got better quicker than I otherwise would have.