{"id":210,"date":"2011-09-02T08:41:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T13:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=210"},"modified":"2011-09-02T08:41:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T13:41:21","slug":"the-scoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2011\/09\/02\/the-scoop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/megintro201109.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-231\" title=\"megintro201109\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/megintro201109.jpg\" alt=\"Meg\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Hello!<\/p>\n<p>My name is Meg Buchmann. I am originally from the northwoods of Wisconsin (Spooner). I am the youngest of five kids, and the achievement bar was set pretty high at a young age. I am currently a junior in the interior architecture program (the reason I chose Point) and have just picked up a business administration minor. I have worked on campus in the dining services, as a community advisor in Burroughs Hall, and currently as the CPS Dean&#8217;s assistant and design student.<\/p>\n<p>So far in my life I have given a stem cell transplant to save my brother&#8217;s life, beat thyroid cancer, been to Europe three times (eight countries total), and received the Chancellor&#8217;s high and highest honors. To me, I still have much more to do to not only reach the achievement bar my siblings and parents have set for me, but also, the bar I have set for myself. I feel like Jack in\u00a0<em>Jack and the Beanstalk<\/em> and the bar is all the way above the clouds. There are so many opportunities for achievement\u00a0at UWSP, it is hard to decide where to start&#8230;IA is a good place.<\/p>\n<p>So, as an IA student, and many others can attest to this, we get the &#8220;Oh your major is easy&#8221; or &#8220;All you have to do is pick out paint and fabric.&#8221; To\u00a0us IA\u00a0students, this is a myth and can\u00a0be\u00a0\u00a0frustrating because there is a lot more involved. Of course, we do pick out paint and fabric, but we also have to plan a space and make it flow. Everything has to make sense and have a purpose or reason\u00a0from the door knob handle for a closet to a lamp. We have to make sure people are safe in the environment they are in. This entails knowing capacities, codes, and the durability of finishes. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, interior architecture is fun, but it\u00a0is also one of the most intense, time consuming and competitive\u00a0majors on campus.<\/p>\n<p>In this blog I will be blogging about a design project from start to finish. Hopefully other IA students who read this can add or talk about their projects and how they approach a design project. Also, I hope this blog will inform prospective IA students (or unsure freshmen) about the major and that HGTV is not the real design world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name is Meg Buchmann. I am originally from the northwoods of Wisconsin (Spooner). I am the youngest of five kids, and the achievement bar was set pretty high at a young age. I am currently a junior in the interior architecture program (the reason I chose Point) and have just picked up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37,16,23],"tags":[113,189,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}