Final Conclusion

a. I learned that I can get distracted very easily and I can only focus on one thing at a time. Throughout the year I knew I had to turn in my work and attend class on monday's, but I was so focused on sports, and other school work. Whenever, I tried doing WISE homework I was easily distracted by my brother or going to my friends house. However, those are no acceptable excuses if I want to move forward. I think I learned from my mistakes and towards the end of the year I was able to focus on many things and working on them at the same time so I can be more productive and efficient at getting my work done.
b. Well I did not know what I was going to anticipate emotionally towards the end of the year, I mean I knew that school was going to end sometime, so I think i was prepared. With the WISE project I thought I was going to do more journal writing, but i did less and I had a plan figured out, so I can pace myself to completing certain aspects of the projects. This plan did not go according to plan and I looked at plan B, which was doing everything on the run, Furthermore, I thought being in WISE as an independent english class; where students have more responsibility I would push myself to the best of my ability, but I ended up relaxing.
c. Well the only thing that can help me manage my time is if i get a watch and one of those booklets with a calendar, but then I would have to remember looking at the clock and writing in the booklet. I think time management is a general excuse for I wish I could have done better, but I did not. So the time management may just be a genetic trait because I had awful time management I did not keep track of my journal entries nor did I remember my journal entries.
d. I do not regret any of  my decisions during my school year and I learned life values such as being happy and respecting diversity, I do wonder if I learned that from my english teacher Mr. Creagan or WISE class but maybe it is the samething. I learned that their are those that are not as fortunate as me and their is always opportunity for good to be done in this world.

Katherine's presentation

I was not able to go to Katherine's presentation because I had physical therapy. so I can not answer the questions.

Cutting Out the Pieces

Probably the most challenging part was drawing the pieces and measuring them on the white foam board. I had to ask help from my dad to help me with the cutting because I cut my finer using the x-acto knife. He was a lot better than I at. We were able to cut everything in an hour. I hope the edges are straight enough that everything will hold.

Sketching

I do not have an office like an architect, but like all great minds that went to become successful; I started  working in the basement. As you can see in the pictures below there are some of my sketches and my working area.
In the first image their is a very basic design of my building and below it are numbers. Those numbers represent measurements that I had to calculate to determine the size of my model. I did not use some actual ratio from the actual size, but simply challenged myself to try design the model with my material constraint. I only had a certain amount of material so I measured the total amount of materials  I had, which was roughly 5000 square inches and the size of my base board was 24" X 18".
The second and third image show the tools i used, my air hockey desk. Some basic tools architects use are triangular rulers, which have different measuring increments to sketch a model from it's actual size. A ruler with a 90 degree placement to draw a straight line. Then a razor, pencil, and eraser.

Material

I bought my material for the CornellStore because they have a whole section for architect students to buy their material and tools from. It was really convenient that cornell had the material their because I got to physically look at the material. If it had not been for the CornellStore I would have had to order material online and that would have been difficult because I would have encountered with problems such as shipping, cost, and proper material.
List:
3 white boards 3'x4'x1/4"
1 wooden board 2'x2'x1/8"
1 green paper 2'x2'x1/16"
1 white board 3'x4'x1/8"

Tools
Hot Glue Gun
Razor Cutter
Glue Sticks
Ruler

The total cost came to about $60

Resources

As I come to the end of the year, I have to wrap things up and discuss my wise project. I mostly got my training from the autodesk website (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/linkedsumindex?siteID=123112&id=2387188&linkID=9243097), It is a great source for anyone interested. Students are able to download free products. Most of my help came from the discussion groups because I was able to ask questions when I was stuck and one of the experts or other user's were able to help me. Another great site was youtube a lot of people got to post video's on how to use Revit Architecture. Their were a lot of examples and models that gave me ideas to produce my structure. The only problem using autodesk was that it only work on PC computers and I am more of a Mac user. On the PC I was unable to take videos of my work because I would have had to buy a program and I was not willing to spend money on it. While on Mac their was already a program installed to take videos of your screen. So that would have been a really nice addition to my blog because that way people would have a better understanding of what I was doing.