First entry!

Hey! So I am sure that for a while at least all of my readers on here will be my close friends and family, but I am going to give you guys a brief intro anyways!

I have decided to jump on the bloggers train, being told how important it is to create a presence on the web to enhance my career. Currently, I am a senior at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. Graduation is in exactly 36 days and I cannot start to say how excited I am. I have had a rollercoaster of a ride the past four years, but I have gotten more than I can say out of this experience. SCAD has one of the top-rated Interior Design programs in the country, I am lucky to have gone through it. Four years ago i was clueless as to what I wanted to make out of my life, and I think I finally have a really good idea of what I want.

After graduation, I will be spending about three months working in Alaska at the Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge. It is basically in the middle of nowhere, about forty miles away from the base of Denali (Mt. McKinley), the most amazing mountain in the world. It is a spiritually amazing place and our lodge has some of the most amazing people in the world working there. Last summer was my first year working at the lodge, and I made some friends that I am sure I will know for the rest of my life. It is an indescribable place, but from July until the end of September it will be most of what I talk about on here!

We get amazing benefits as employees at the lodge, including travel discounts through the company. That is why after the summer season in Alaska ends, I am planning to take an amazingly discounted cruise through New Zealand, Australia, and the South Pacific including Fiji! Hopefully I will fly to New Zealand a week or two early to explore. This means about a month and a half down unda.

After the cruise adventure, the plan is to move to Crested Butte, Colorado. For those of you who don't know, Crested Butte is a tiny mountain town of about a thousand people located near Gunnison, Colorado, about six hours south of Denver. It is remote enough to never get too crowded and the ten days I spent there this winter made me fall in love with it. I cannot wait to move there with friends to be a ski bum for a season!

About a year after I graduate, in Spring of 2011, I plan to get my first Interior Design internship. Currently, I am super excited about a firm called RNL, specifically their Denver office. Their website is www.rnldesign.com and I recommend everyone check them out! They are doing amazing work and have been called one of America's top five sustainable design firms! My favorite things about interior design are the sustainability aspect of the profession (buildings account for 30-40% of all carbon emissions) and the functionality and ability to improve the quality of life for users of spaces. The psychology and innovation behind the profession today are just amazing and something that not many people are aware of yet.

Anywho, that is a brief intro to what you all can expect to be hearing about for the next year! It would be amazing to get as many readers as possible for this so tell anyone you know who is interested in hearing about my exciting life and innovations in the amazing field of interior design! I would love to network with any designers out there in any field because it is all interconnected and all applies. For now, I am off to go to films in Forsyth with my family, as it is the last parent's weekend of my college career!


-Hillary Rose