Since freshman year, I have known that I wanted to do my internship with our good family friend Tom at Boora Architects. I had my heart set on going to Portland and following up on my childhood obsession with drawing tree houses and designing and building intricate lego house models. Since I knew where I wanted to go, who I would be staying with, and what business I would be working with, I figured I was all set and didn't get into the details. Although since the beginning of junior year I knew there would be a lot of paperwork and planning to go along with the internship, I put it off. Unfortunately, when the lack of plans caught up with me, I realized that there was a huge scheduling problem. I would be in Sun Valley Idaho and Steamboat springs for the first two weeks of the internship time trying to win a few national titles in freestyle skiing. On top of this, Tom would be in Durango during the third week and not at work! Because of this initial conflict, Tom mentioned that he has some friends at a super cool architecture and design workshop called Fieldwork, also in Portland, at which I could do the first week of my internship while he was in Durango. After doing some research about this additional company, I was incredibly excited to work with them for some of the time. When Tom and I contacted Fieldwork however, we discovered that my mentor there would also be out of town during my desired timeframe. This was terrible news. However, instead of giving up and simply finding a less complicated internship in Durango, I found a solution. After my two weeks of ski competitions, I would come back to Durango for a week, get ahead on some school work, and then go to Portland, sacrificing two additional weeks of school. This solved the problem, Tom helped me finalize the paperwork, and I'll be hitting the ground running as soon as I get back. Whoever is reading this must be incredibly exhausted and should probably take a nap.
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