RRSLA INTERNSHIP BLOG 2025

     Hey guys! I'm currently working here in Baton Rouge at Makaira Landscape. I've already been working there for two months (wow! time flies) and it's a very laid back and comfortable work place. I go into the office every week day and have occasionally used Google Remote Desktop at home. Everyone there is really nice and loves to joke around while we work. We also listen to music through the SONOS speakers and my boss loves to dance and be goofy, it reminds me of studio in a way. I don't know if y'all remember Haley's friend, Rebecca (from Cadence) that spoke to our class last year, but that is my boss's sister! It's really crazy how wide the landscape architecture community is and I've realized that making connections is important.       Makaira is a design/build firm that designs high-end residential pools and landscape. I've been learning more than I ever imagined about water features, prices/costs of materials, and pool design. My favorite...

Hi everyone :)  I am going to be spending the next couple of months interning at Design Workshop in Aspen. I arrived here in early January and I am living on this ladies' ranch in Old Snowmass, which is about 20 minutes from Aspen. It's very cute and secluded out here. Her ranch is surrounded by mountains on all sides and the view is out of this world. I am very much enjoying the mountain life, but I miss being 5 minutes away from the nearest grocery store. Every morning when I wake up I talk a walk around the ranch to find new footprints and see which animals have been walking by. So far I have found plenty of rabbit, deer, and elk prints. My family came and visited me not too long ago and they took me skiing for the first time, I cried. Skiing is very scary, especially if your someone who hates falling to your death. But I got the hang of it eventually and I am determined to be a pro skier by the time I leave.  I have been going to the office on and off. I really enjoy worki...

Hey everyone! Crazy to think I'm already in week 6 of my internship at Design Workshop. Is time flying by for anyone else?  Work: Work has kept me busy busy busy! I am still working on the same three projects since the last time I posted (2 Residential Properties + Intern Project). As mentioned in my previous post, I went on a site visit to Denver with Cana and Ashton. It was great to see a little bit of Denver as well as to catch up with Cana and check out the Denver office! It was an extremely long day for Ashton and I. We left Aspen at 7:30 am and I didn't get back to my apartment until 9 pm. We had a great day in Denver but an interesting journey back home. I soon realized I should've checked the weather a bit more thoroughly for the evening. Rookie mistake. Unfortunately, Ashton and I got caught in the middle of a snow storm on our way back. Took us 6 hours to get home. I had never been so nervous driving in my life. The roads basically turned from lanes into all whit...

Hey guys, since my last post had a lack of photos so here are some from the last week or so. I got to work on one cool thing for EDSA so far and that was some archival work for Disney. That was fun. But it'll probably be the only thing for Disney that I'll work on. A lot of the themed industry is down right now. But we do have a lot of work for Shanghai, they have a couple of parks that are being done by EDSA.    This is my spot, the large black board is there to block the morning sun.  This is the common area/Paul's drafting area (Views of downtown oooOOoo) This is a view looking into the office from the common area. My spot is to the left. That's Megan who sits behind me. The conference room, Msoft Teams has basically rendered conference rooms useless. (The yellow building in the window is my apartment complex) A past project I checked on. Disney's Rivera Resort. (Super Pricy) Walkway from Magic Kingdom to the Grand Floridian. EDSA also did the fancy fence that yo...

 Hello,  As some of you know, I have been waiting from my friend from Baton Rogue to move in with me, and now he is finally here. I've never been a person that's liked being alone so this is really nice that he is here now. I have been fairly busy at work. We are in a weird transition period so there hasn't been a terrible amount for me to do right now. With that being said, I have been asking a bunch of questions and kind of forcing my way on to site visits which have been been very good teaching lessons. It has been great so far. I hope everyone is doing great!!  Software I have been using: Photoshop Sketchup Indesign 

Hi guys! I'm working at TBG Partners in Austin, TX  (Jacob's sister works here ).  Everybody here is working remotely and probably will continue until March. Since I started working (Jan 11th) I've only been in the office once, unfortunately I didn't take any pictures but next time I will so can  see it, it is very nice! The first two or three weeks I was loaded  with a bunch of online meetings (orientation staff) which I've been learning a lot about how TBG works. The office hours are from 8:30 am to 6:30pm Monday to Thursday and Fridays 8:30am to 3:00pm.  We communicate using MS Teams, Ring Central, and The Roux (this is a TBG's website like employee's social media site).  The Austin office is separated ny three teams and each team is in charge of different projects, the team I'm working with at the moment is called "The Porcupettes" (not sure what that means but sounds funny to say it). So far I've been working in three...