What's in a name? & New Beginnings to the End

This is my first ever blog post. To begin with, I want to share the reasoning behind the name of my new blog. I got the idea for the name "Striving for No Fear" because today I am starting the first day of my last semester as a college student. Recently, I have found myself feeling an almost overwhelming sense of fear that I will fail after graduation. Failure is my biggest fear. Everytime someone has asked me what my plans are after graduation, I try to shrug it off because I know that I should know the answer (for the most part) to that question, and to be honest I still have no idea what I REALLY want to do with my degree in Interior Design. For the last semster or so, I have also found myself not really putting my best foot forward in my schoolwork and then feeling so far behind that I just haven't been able to keep up. I want to change that and do my ultimate best in my last semester of school. It's my last chance! I want to do more that the bare essentials just to get by. That being said, I will be STRIVING, working my hardest, to accomplish this. Hopefully my intentions will not get lost along the way. This act of striving to do my best in my schoolwork will surely also help me to drive away my fear. I want to feel confident that I will succeed, find what I'm truly passionate about, and exceed in that area.

Moving on to why this blog has been created: For my Studio VII class, my last studio ever, I am working on only one project, a Senior Thesis Project, for the entire semester. This blog is a part of that project. I am to record my ideas and progress along the way (EVERYTHING) twice a week. The project is to preserve and redesign Galloway Place on the corner of Circus Square Park in the downtown Bowling Green, KY area. The building was built in 1949 and originally used as a car dealership. We are to design a hotel, restaurant, and spa using the existing structure and an addition where there is a large lawn space. The actual hotel/restaurant/spa will be the length of the entire city block. Right now, my first few goals for the project are to 1) come up with names for the hotel, the restaurant, and the spa 2) decide on a design theme & 3) conduct and compile all research into a research statement.

For now, that is all I have.