We asked some of the brightest folks from within the community to reflect back on their days in school and to share with us a story of when they learned a particularly important or impactful lesson. We’ve shared highlights below.

Kitchy Crouse

Going to Design School taught me a lot. From the many fields that you can work on, to the importance of the history of Design. But most importantly, I learned how to work as a team. Contractors and sub-contractors are the most important keys to success. They do the execution of your ideas and there has to be a very open communication to make things happens functionally and aesthetically. I leaned that any detail that is not specifically called out on the drawings is an opening for mistakes. And I got to experience that in real like. Read more>>

Felicity Muench

My education through graduate school was filled with many lessons, but perhaps the essential ones happened during elementary school. I loved learning but was quiet and shy and never felt like I fit in. I would sit near the back of the classroom, imagining I had the superpower of invisibility. Not knowing I was dyslexic, I never understood why it was so difficult for me to read and write. I knew I was not like the other kids during class every day. Read more>>

Amanda Cisneros

When I was 25 and going through my graduate program to become a Marriage and Family Therapist, I was asked to give a “self of the therapist” presentation. This gives a therapist a chance to reflect on their own personal experiences and challenges and how this shapes them as a provider. At the time, I was going through what I will refer to as my *first* quarter-life-crisis and found that it was really impacting the work I did–both creatively and therapeutically. Read more>>