Scholarship Winner's Letter
Dear Denver Chapter Alumni:
I am pleased to share with you some of the wonderful experiences I have gone through in the past year. It has been my second year at the University of Arkansas, but my first year in the School of Architecture. I transferred last fall from an art major to the architecture program, and am pleased with the results.
To start off with, I have been staying busy spending endless nights in the architecture building working very diligently to finish many deadlines. I have yet to pull an all-nighter in my college experience, and I am very proud to say I was one of very few to achieve an “A” last semester in Studio I. I am overjoyed to say a rendering of mine made the Christmas card for the University of Arkansas School of Architecture this last December. Moreover, I am proud to be attending the 20th ranked architecture school in the nation. This last month, I got the pleasure to attend the renaming of the school and all the festivities. I am now a student of the Fay Jones School of Architecture.
Not only have I been working hard with my schoolwork, but I have also been working. I just finished my second year at the Fine Arts Library as a work study student. I am pleased to say, I just got hired back as a First Year Experience Mentor for the second consecutive summer. Between those two jobs and school work, I have not had much free time for myself.
I am sure many of you have heard stories about the ice storm this past February, but I have a pretty spectacular story to tell myself. That week we were out of school from the ice storm, a group of friends and I got bored and took a walk down to Wilson Park to help out the elderly in the community. We spent all day cleaning up yards for free and as the day was coming to and end, we all got a rewarding feeling. Little did I know at the time, but we helped clean up a 93-year-old lady’s yard. Afterwards her neighbor came out to tell us that she had been living in a hotel room for a couple days, because she could not make it into her house with all the debris. We never got to meet the elderly lady, but at the end of the day we all agreed she made the day worth it.
Over all, this last year at the University has been the best yet. I have had the chance to meet many new people, and stay close to the old ones. I have made it a point to get out of studio as much as possible and try and help others in the community. I plan on joining Habitat for Humanity next year, and am excited to spend my Saturdays helping build houses. I have learned many valuable skills in the past year, and can not wait to come back after the summer and start designing all over again.
Sincerely, Libby Weiler
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