Week 11 response

The hardest thing has honestly been finding enough time to do research on my subculture. With having the rest of my classes and architecture, time has been really limited but I have found time. It was also very frustrating not really knowing what the subculture actually did but attending the meetings anyways. The easiest thing is interacting with the people inside my subculture. They are very relaxed and understanding of everything I have to say. If I could start over, I would go to more of the movie nights the group offered Tuesday nights just to see the practical problems they propose to people on campus. The movies were shown to provoke thought among people in general. The movies were open to everybody on campus. It has showed my progression as a researcher and helped me developed good tips and ideas about how to get what I want from this program. My final paper will show my experience as a researcher and also be able to show the knowledge I have acquired..

Box 30

I found two articles in E-archives and Exhibits. The article in E-archives gives general information about the architecture program hear at ball state. It goes into depth about the many possible majors and minors through architecture. The other article in exhibits is about the celebration of African American history in Muncie. These two articles can help my research by giving me more information about my major and possible minors and how it could relate to African American history hear. There could be an intersection between the history of African American history and the prestige of Ball States architecture program.

Week 10 Reflection

The reason why people don't know the words in my club is because they are outsiders. They don't spend anytime with any of the people within the club to know what anything mean.

Week 10

NOMAS

Conference

Bread

Pot

Studio

Box 25

NOMAS- National Organizationo of Minority Architecture Students

Conference- Organized field trips to major cities around the Midwest

Bread- Money

Pot- The amount of money the group has to work with

Studio- The space where all work for architecture is done

Week 9 Response

The main thing I can provide to my community is knowledge. I can guarantee that most college students do not think of women or minorities in the field of architecture. By observing this club I could spread hope to minorities and women throughout the college campus about this major. Maybe some people who thought about pursing this major but were turned away because they believed they didn’t meet the criteria of an architecture student. So my contribution would be the spread of knowledge about this club and how it relates to the major of architecture. It would open up the communities eyes for those who didn’t even pay attention to stuff of this nature. It would help out the class in seeing where I am coming from as a young African American student trying to make it in this major called architecture. I think this process is helping me further my education because it is making me do lots of research about a specific topic. This will help me in the work force because if I don’t know about a specific topic I will have to research it as much as possible. Architects often have to research sites and climates and conditions to verify whether or not they will be able to build what they want to on any given site. The same type of research done in school can help get me ready for that.