Week one of my internship finally arrived! On Monday I drove out to Lauderdale Design group not really knowing what all I would be doing. When I arrived the company's IT guy set up my laptop with LDG's outlook email, gave me access to the server, and set me up to print on the printers in the office. Then I helped Danni and Joy, one of the Principals, pick out options for lounge furniture to be placed in the new UT residence hall. All of the design has to be done in three weeks, so we can only choose furniture " on contract". On contract means that the furniture can be ordered and brought in more quickly since UT already has a contract with them. Once several furniture options were chosen, I sketched up some space planning options for the main lounge areas, large study rooms, and smaller study rooms and passed them off to Danni to check and make suggestions. I also helped to update file locations and made new files on the server to help make it a more efficient system. Then I had Revit class Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. This week, I also had another first, I broke my collar bone playing Ultimate Frisbee Summer League. This has made things a bit difficult, but I'm getting pretty fast at typing with my left hand, and I'm determined to not let it slow me down too much. On Friday, I went back to my internship. Most of the day was spent ordering about 100 different samples from several different companies. We also had about 50 carpet tile samples delivered.
Lauderdale Design Group is a small interiors firm that is a partnership between Joy and Deborah. Then there are two designers, Danni and Jess, and me, the intern.
Meeting new people:
Several Reps came into the office while I was there, but I didn't get to take picture because I was doing other things. A very nice UPS man came in both days too. I will get names this week though!