a short entry in the midst of packing my life into little cardboard boxes...
(yes, i lived in very nice columbia university housing which kicks you out of your apartment about ten days after you've graduated)

way back in my first entry, i mentioned that the intro visual studies class had become a requirement in the first semester for all first year m.arch's. a good thing, and then a horrible curse.

so unlike other schools, you don't do your own plotting or laser cutting and must submit all your plots, laser cuts, and 3d prints to the output shop days in advance. especially near finals b/c the queues get ridiculously long and can take many days for you to see your laser cuts finished. but i've never seen the queues for laser cutting as horrendously long as this since before the woodshop crew made wooden shelving to put all of our output shop forms/materials. good to know that the output shop's resources are really being utilized by all three years. but wow... it was kind of amazing in a not-so-good way.

the people who dumped stuff at the end of the line... that's just like false hope right there.

notice the sign trying to direct the mess.


this was just the beginning of it, too. a day or two later, a sign popped up with a screen shot of kennedy fabrication's website and big, big letters above it saying "PLAN B." did anyone do this?


curious to see how the piles of laser cutter submissions will go next year. after brief conversations on separate occasions with both tito (who runs the output shop) and john ramahlo (who i can't speak highly enough of b/c he's one of my favorite people there), i've been told that the school's going to transition into self-plotting and a bursar/debit system with only the plotters staying on the 6th floor. the rest of the output shop's stuff will still be based on submitting forms, but move elsewhere - meaning, the laser cutters and 3d printers (btw, i have also heard mumblings about replacing the busted abs plastic 3d printer with three smaller ones... lucky bums). WHERE exactly these will go, i'm not sure. but good luck to you all with the long waits of plotting your own stuff next year and watching the plots inch their way towards being completed. play nice.