Hey everybody,
I'm a longtime lurker finally taking the plunge. A little about myself:
I was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, and am a junior at Occidental College, a small liberal arts college in Los Angeles. At the moment, however, I'm spending a semester at the DIS program in Copenhagen, Denmark. I've gotten the traditional "well-rounded" liberal arts education, but my major is Urban & Environmental Policy - an interdisciplinary combo of political science, economics, environmental studies, sociology, and a core program junior and senior year focusing on a community-organizing internship and research project. I highly, highly reccomend it to those of you looking at undergrad programs.
Anyway, I'm not sure what I'm going to do when graduation comes fourteen short months from now, but I have had an almost lifelong fascination with cities. I'm not sure whether it really focused after my dad brought home the original Simcity or I started reading Kim MacColl's books on the history of Portland, but sometime around age 10.
Up until about two months ago, I was convinced I wanted to go to law school, and approach these issues from that perspective. After a few months in Denmark I'm not so sure anymore. This program has a very strong architecture program and I talked my way into a lecture course within that department, to help round out my major at home a little. Up until about age 15 or so I used to draw house and city plans all the time, and the class has really reinvigorated my interest in architecture. Ok, this has gone on way too long, so I'll leave it at this . . . maybe if people are bored at work they can now be bored reading my post. So yeah, that's my life story.
I'm a longtime lurker finally taking the plunge. A little about myself:
I was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, and am a junior at Occidental College, a small liberal arts college in Los Angeles. At the moment, however, I'm spending a semester at the DIS program in Copenhagen, Denmark. I've gotten the traditional "well-rounded" liberal arts education, but my major is Urban & Environmental Policy - an interdisciplinary combo of political science, economics, environmental studies, sociology, and a core program junior and senior year focusing on a community-organizing internship and research project. I highly, highly reccomend it to those of you looking at undergrad programs.
Anyway, I'm not sure what I'm going to do when graduation comes fourteen short months from now, but I have had an almost lifelong fascination with cities. I'm not sure whether it really focused after my dad brought home the original Simcity or I started reading Kim MacColl's books on the history of Portland, but sometime around age 10.
Up until about two months ago, I was convinced I wanted to go to law school, and approach these issues from that perspective. After a few months in Denmark I'm not so sure anymore. This program has a very strong architecture program and I talked my way into a lecture course within that department, to help round out my major at home a little. Up until about age 15 or so I used to draw house and city plans all the time, and the class has really reinvigorated my interest in architecture. Ok, this has gone on way too long, so I'll leave it at this . . . maybe if people are bored at work they can now be bored reading my post. So yeah, that's my life story.
