I got my MA in Interior Design several years back. My final year was a nightmare in which my professors repeatedly threatened to fail me for, as best I can tell, personal reasons but I never really understood why. Several weeks ago, one of those same professors tagged me on Facebook and posted a link to this building with a caption that read something like "So happy we could help such forward thinking creative genius." The building isn't mine, but it's nearly identical to the building I designed for my thesis project.
It's clearly a case of synchronicity, but I can't help but be angry that I spent a year being mocked and threatened with failure while this building won first prize in an international competition. I have no doubt the other project was/is better, but it was accomplished with a team of architects while I worked alone as a student. And now the people who slowed me down every step of the way are trying to take some tangential credit for an idea I had to fight tooth and nail to keep alive.
I'm happy to see the ideas I fought for in 2010 are coming to fruition - that's the important thing. I just wish I'd had people around me who could have challenged me to be better.
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Submitted June 04, 2017 at 06:13AM by pijinglish http://ift.tt/2qOkHVU
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