Jillian on April 15th, 2009

After a very stressful week preparing for my DD presentation and Easter on Sunday I took a mini vacation this past weekend. My boyfriend’s band Aberdeen City played a show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in NYC, so we packed up the equipment and drov…

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Jillian on April 9th, 2009

I have three weeks to complete my Senior Studio Thesis project. “The Cambridge School of Fashion & Fine Arts” (the title of my project) is now in semi-final stages. We had a very important critique on Tuesday to present our Design Development. The …

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Jillian on March 11th, 2009

There are officially 52 days from today until May 17…GRADUATION!!! In the beginning of the semester I had mixed feelings about graduating. I was feeling excited and happy about almost being done with school, while also having sad feelings of leaving …

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Jillian on February 3rd, 2009

so i have new developments in the research for my thesis project. now that we have started doing research for our projects we have to choose a building “shell” to put our design into. each student in the class was assigned a shell to research. we …

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Jillian on January 27th, 2009

i know it may be early to be thinking about apartments considering my lease isn’t up until september, but i can’t help myself. when i find a break from doing thesis research and other school work, i have been browsing craigslist.craigslist is a great …

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Jillian on January 20th, 2009

well the first week of classes went swimmingly…well almost. i attended all but one of my classes because for some reason i read my schedule wrong. i had been anticipating going to my photojournalism class all week (thinking it was on thursday) and …

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Jillian on January 14th, 2009

2009, the year i graduate, has arrived. as cliche as it sounds i feel like it was only yesterday that i began school here at Suffolk and thought to myself, 2009 seems so far away. But alas, the time has flown by and now i only have one semester until i…

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Jillian on December 1st, 2008

It’s been a while since my last post so let me catch you up…I went to New York City last Monday for my first time ever!! I have lived in New York state my entire life and traveled abroad twice, and had never been to New York City before. I was only t…

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Jillian on November 4th, 2008

I cannot believe it is already November 4th, election day and Halloween has come and gone! I went to Salem for a Halloween party and as I mentioned in a previous blog, I went as Waldo. Check out the dorky pic!Salem is such a cute, quaint town and it wa…

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Jillian on October 27th, 2008

I couldn’t have been more excited for this past weekend. I have been waiting to see Cinderella performed by the Boston Ballet since I ordered tickets almost a month ago. I went on Friday with my boyfriend to the Wang Theatre to see the ballet and was …

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Jillian on October 20th, 2008

So this Saturday I had to work at Admissions for an info session event called ‘Students to Students’. The event is smaller than an open house but larger than a regular tour and is basically run by the student ambassadors like myself. A casual, infor…

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Jillian on October 15th, 2008

This weekend my parents were in town to visit me. They flew in from Buffalo on Friday morning and stayed until Tuesday afternoon. We had such a great time but were very busy. I wanted to show them some parts of the city they hadn’t seen before during o…

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Jillian on October 7th, 2008

Well I have to say that I have been kind of coasting the past few weeks, doing my work and having time to play; however this week it feels like all that coasting is coming to bite me in the butt. I have tons of work due this week and next and I’m runni…

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Jillian on October 1st, 2008

Happy October!! Today is the first of October which means that we have been in school for almost a month. Midterms are rapidly approaching and the end of the semester will be here before we know it(or are ready for it). I feel like the first month jus…

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Jillian on September 24th, 2008

So I have to tell you how excited I am about Halloween!! I know it’s only September, but I have been amped up for Halloween since summer escaped us. I can’t get enough of Halloween and fall decorations and I have been shopping for anything fall and goi…

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