Snow Day?!

Guess what?! Syracuse cancelled classes after 2:00 on Thursday!! This is the first snow day the university has called since I have been here! I was so excited! I had one class in the morning and then my other 2 were cancelled! My roommate, our friend, and I went outside to play in the snow and built a snowman. Everyone was outside playing in the snow. There were snowball fights, guys playing football in the park, and more snowman builders. I loved how everyone was enjoying the snow like we were little kids :) Our snowman came out so cute and it is sitting in the front of Walnut Hall (our dorm). Walnut's mascot!
After we went back inside and warmed up, another friend told us about a snowball fight in the quad. We decided to join and headed over! There were not too many people there, but a good amount. We all just threw snowballs at each other and had a fun time! A couple times we would throw snowballs at other students crossing the quad and got a lot to join in and fight back! It was so fun. Then we would throw snow at each other too and I got about 5 snowballs to the face and had a pile of snow dropped on my head when I wasn't paying attention. My hair was literally frozen! These are the times I love the snow :) I hope everyone is enjoying the snow too!!
An hour and a half later, we decided to head back and defrost. It was such a fun snow day! I love snow ball fights and made some new friends too :)

Snowy Syracuse

Brrrrr
It's a snowy and cold Friday morning here in Syracuse with the beautiful scenery of a snow covered campus. I am a total summer girl, but being here for almost 2 years now, the snow has grown on me. Except when it gets really icy and you wipe out while walking around... but I am a clumsy person so that just me :)
This week went by pretty fast! I was very busy with work, I told you my free weekend with no work would not last. On Tuesday, in my Graphics class, we received a new assignment. We were given a hospital located in Virginia and will have to re-design it. Our first step was research. We all went on the internet and looked up information about the hospital and what it offers and where it is located, etc. Then we had to come up with words that described our findings about the feel of the space. And we each had to make 3 mood boards to go along with a set of 3 words to each board. This required a long image search to find all the right images to portray my words to other people looking at my boards. Then on Thursday, we all hung up our boards and reviewed one another's to see if we had clearly shown our words through our images. Then for next week we have to make a materials board off of our strongest mood board. Fun stuff! In my Residential class, we went down to the Warehouse Gallery where our "concept cube" spaces are going to be displayed. We picked out of a hat and were each given a corner of the room we would be building our space in. My group was dealt the space right when you walk in, so it is the very first space people will see through the clear glass entry doors. We have a disadvantage in that we lose space where the doors need to swing open. But we also have the option of using the door as an advantage and working it into our design! This project will teach us that when we have real life projects we cannot pick the architecture of the pre-existing space; we have to work with it. I am really excited to solidify our design and actually build something life size!! Also this week, I had an Art History exam, which I think I did pretty well on since I studied all the periods over and over!
I am excited for the weekend, I don't have too much work to do so I will have some free time. And my parents may be coming up to visit me on Saturday! I am very excited to see them :) Have a great weekend everybody!!

Markers, Cubes, Zumba, and Shoulder Pads?

Hey guys!
Last week went by pretty fast! I have not spoken too much about my classes yet, so I will start now! Here are all the classes I am taking this semester:
Interior Design Representation
Interior Design: Residential
Materials for Interior Design
Historic Backgrounds 1600-Present
Intro to Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises (for my Marketing Minor)
I am enjoying my classes this semester. I am so excited to draw more floor plans and do big projects and learn about all the materials to use in spaces. In my representation class, we are learning how to use markers. It sounds like kindergarten but it really is a skill! We have these design markers and are learning how to shade and draw shadows and make everything look believable. Our professors even timed us to make us get faster at doing it and not think too much! In my residential class, we are working on a project called Concept Cubes. We were split into 4 groups and each given a word with two adjectives. My group received Sleep with Tranquil + Energizing. So we have to create a space with a place to sleep but still communicate tranquility and energy. We are still in collaboration stages and just figuring out what to do with the space. In the end, each group will have a human scale space on display in the gallery. It is like a design show where we have to build the space with limited time and supplies! It is so cool!! In my Materials class, we just had an exam and it was open notes so it benefited me since I took good notes in class! I think I did pretty well.. Then in my Historic Backgrounds class, we are learning about the Baroque and Rococo periods. It is so fun to learn about all the history and the unique designs in each period. I like having a marketing minor because I have a diverse workload. I have design projects and at the same time I am learning about business concepts. It is a great mix and one of the reasons why Syracuse is such great school.

Outside of classes, last week had some fun times spent with my friends. On Tuesday, I had a break in between classes at the Warehouse and me and my friend Rian went exploring in Armory Square. We went into a store called Bounce and Rian found a cute flower headband! We went to a few little shops then headed back. It was a nice little break from classes. On Wednesday night, my roommate found out about a free Zumba Aerobics class at the gym. It was from 10-12, part of “Late Night at the Gym”. I went with my roommate, Alyssa, and two of our friends. It was so much fun! The teacher went so fast and blasted the music so loud we could barely hear her! But we were dying laughing as we danced all around the room and looked so hilarious doing it! We are definitely going back next week!! It is a great workout and fun at the same time. :) On Friday, Alyssa, our friends Katie and Ethan, and I went downtown to a little vintage shop in Armory Square. We heard about a sale earlier in the week that advertised fitting anything in a shopping bag for only $20! We got to the shop and the owner showed us into a room filled with clothes all over the floor. We dug right in. We went through all the items one at a time and tried things on. We found so many items and even some crazy things from a few decades ago, shoulder pads and all! I found a cute skirt, Alyssa found a few blazers, Ethan grabbed some items with cool patterns he could use in his textiles class, and Katie found the most items of us all! Our best find was a Girl Scout uniform from 1976 with badges and all! Such a fun afternoon!

It was a great week.. now on to the weekend!! Have a great Valentine’s Day everyone!! :)

Prima Ballerina

Hey again!
It's Monday and the weekend went by too fast! I somehow managed to have no homework over the weekend except for a little work on a group project. This is a rarity for me, for sure. So I took advantage of it and just relaxed and de-stressed a little bit.

Sunday morning, I had ballet dance class at 11:30. So I had to wake up early and trek over to Archbold Gym. It was pretty bitter cold yesterday, but the gym was nice and warm inside. I love going to dance class. It is a nice way to take my mind off everything else and just... dance! We are in the middle of learning our final dance which we will perform in April in Goldstein Auditorium in Schine Student Center. I am really excited for the big performance and my whole family is coming up to watch me!! We started off going over what we had already learned and Lisa, my dance teacher had us do it over and over again until we had it just right! Then Lisa taught us some new steps in the dance. She had us all go in a circle rotation and we had to do leaps and turns while staying in the circle. We had a little trouble staying in a circle and not bumping into one another. But, we will get it right! We ended class by going through the dance one last time the whole way through. Overall, it was a good class! I am getting all the steps down and I am really excited to perform it on stage! Who knew with no dance experience at all I would turn into a ballerina? haha.

On to the week ahead filled with work, and I hope some play too, and my first exam in my Materials class! Wish me luck :)

First Post! :)

Hey there!
My name is Breanne and I am a sophomore in Interior Design here at Syracuse University. I'm from Freehold, New Jersey, and no I am not like the people from the MTV show! :) Being a year and a half into my time here, I am amazed at how fast time is flying! I love the university and it has so much to offer. Being a design major, my favorite part is the small class sizes. Now that I am into my major classes, I have class with the same group of about 30 girls. And being together all the time, we get to be very close friends! Syracuse University was my first choice, way back when I was applying to colleges. I never had a dream school until I started visiting them. And I fell in love with Syracuse the first time I stepped on campus. Outside of classes, I am involved in a few organizations and clubs. I am in Orange Pulse Dance Troupe, which is a non-audition dance team on campus. I have not danced since I was four years old, but I have started ballet and I am loving it! I am also a tour guide, peer advisor, and a member of Goon Squad which helps incoming students move in the first week. Well that is a little introduction into who I am. More later...