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Today was another great day at Gray Construction! I arrived early to work and immediately began working on Revit tutorials for about two hours with one of the workers in the office. Afterwards, I felt much more prepared to jump into  Revit and conquer the tasks before me. The more I work with Revit the more I love it. At lunch I got the chance to talk with multiple employees from UK’s College of Design, my supervisor, and an employee who had worked with the office for over 25 years. At lunch, we discussed the future of architecture. This included how to accommodate change of culture and environment without loosing a firm’s core values. When we returned from lunch, I attended a meeting with my supervisor and her project’s interior designer. We discussed the quality of entrance spaces and what type of environment must be created when welcoming guests within a small space. I will be attending a subsequent meeting with the interior designer, my supervisor, and the client on Friday. Towards the end of the day, I worked on renderings for my supervisor’s project. Tomorrow I will be finalizing the renders that I worked on today, and attending a Gray University meeting about how to deal with subcontractor issues. 

I could not have had a better first day at my first internship with Gray Construction. I spent the beginning of my day on a tour of the office, and then worked the rest of the day on Revit tutorials. I started these tutorials because the office primarily uses Revit and I have not yet had the chance to learn the program. Although this seemed like a road block at first, one of the workers at the office gave me a very helpful run through of Revit and its similarities with Rhino. Despite the differences of Revit, I am extremely excited to work with this program and have set the goal of learning the program by the end of this semester. I have specifically been assigned to work with one woman who is working on the construction of a new manufacturing and distribution plant. By tomorrow afternoon, I will have learned enough in Revit to begin working on renders for the project. All in all, I made the most of my day and squeezed every ounce of learning that I could out of it. 

This day has meant so much to me, and has given me so much joy. I ended my day at a little get together with the employees of the office. I cannot fully express my gratitude for the warm welcome that all of Gray’s employees gave me. They truly are a firm focused on the relationships that they build.