<p>I can't believe I made people laugh on D-Day...</p>
<p>...although the "pheasants" thing really was funny, if I do say so myself...;)</p>
<p>I combed my essays pretty carefully for grammar/spelling errors...but who knows, it happens. During the final checkover I realized I'd put "trough" instead of "trowel" in one of them. Lol. That would have been pretty humiliating.</p>
<p>It could've been worse - you could've put something like, "I decided to throw in the trowel." :p</p>
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Continuez, s'il vous plait.</p>
<p>EDIT: Haha, yes. That would have been worse. Though claiming you applied mortar with a farm animal's watering basin isn't brilliant. ;)</p>
<p>AAH! I'm a Spanish student! (Although I'll probably take French in college, if I can switch...Spanish is too guttural.)</p>
<p>(did that say "continue, if you can" ??? - I'm guessing)</p>
<p>EDIT: Yes, it would have been interesting to see how the adcom would have reacted to your choice of tools...</p>
<p>Translation: Continue, please.</p>
<p>EDIT: Literally: "continue, if it pleases you"</p>
<p>Hmmph.</p>
<p>Oh, I see - "Continue, if you will." ("if you will" = "please") ???</p>
<p>EDIT: I see our posts are overlapping. Wonderful. Since we're having the equivalent of a message-board AIM conversation, how's Vienna?</p>
<p>Yes, the French are more formal/polite in some cases.</p>
<p>EDIT: Yes, and we keep editing posts, lol. Vienna is excellent...it's difficult to characterize, though....it's the easternmost city of the West, so the population is very mixed. The Austrians joke that Turkish is the official language (not German). The architecture is some of the most beautiful I've seen. It almost reminds me of Venice....but not quite. It's very much Baroque, if that helps. =)
^Bear in mind I know about art, but not a lot about architecture. That's something I'll have to fix....at Yale? ;)</p>
<p>Have you been to Schönbrunn yet? You should...the architecture there is amazing. (And I think there's another palace in the area called the Upper Belvedere, though I'm not certain...v. interesting as well)</p>
<p>I'm going to the Schönbrunn in a few hours. =)</p>
<p><em>pang of jealousy</em></p>
<p>Very cool. Any other noteworthy buildings you've seen/toured/painted?</p>
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Let's hope so...:)</p>
<p>I haven't been in Vienna long, but the ones I've seen (including the Kunsthistorische, St. Stephan's, etc.) have been incredible.</p>
<p>I'm sooooooo jealous right now (and I sound terribly articulate, too) - I've only been to Europe once, and that was almost five years ago. I got a taste of it when I visited Yale and Princeton last summer, though...</p>
<p>You'll go again, I'm sure. Where did you go last time?</p>
<p>The only buildings I've gotten to do drawings of are the University Church in Oxford and the interior of St. Paul's.....I've worked mainly in art museums. I'll give you a link to the one of St. Pauls, if I can find it....</p>
<p>London - what an awesome city. I think I'd like to live there someday. St. Paul's was closed for the day when we visited, and the British Museum was having the finishing touches put on its glass roof (designed by Norman Foster, a Yale School of Architecture graduate ;)) the week I was there, so we went to Windsor Castle instead. I wasn't disappointed - we saw the Queen coming out of a funeral service at St. George's Chapel.</p>
<p>Okay, here: <a href="http://www.geocities.com/kebree1128/STPAULS.JPG%5B/url%5D">http://www.geocities.com/kebree1128/STPAULS.JPG</a>
I know some of the perspective is off....</p>
<p>EDIT: You saw the Queen? Excellent....</p>
<p>Impressive, as usual (I saw your other artwork on the artattack site). Great detailing (something I'm way too picky about when I draw, which at this point isn't as often as I'd like).</p>
<p>London IS awesome. It's also extremely expensive, but as a Yale School of Architecture grad, that won't be an issue for you. ;)</p>
<p>I still can't believe Wren designed over 51 churches in such a short period of time. Genius...</p>
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Maybe after a ten-year period of paying off $120,000 in loans...haha.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I have to go to bed - it's 2 AM here, and I have a museum to visit tomorrow. There's a Titanic exhibit with full-scale replicas of some of the ship's rooms (including the Grand Staircase) - a childhood fantasy come to life :).</p>
<p>Now everyone can have their thread back. What was the original subject again? ;)</p>
<p>And Kebree- again, good luck tomorrow!! (I'll be on, but just in case...)</p>
<p>oh , how lucky those ea acceptees are, they are no longer nearly as nervous as us rd people</p>