>> I think that everyone has a sense of tension, and they're a little bit uneasy as they try
to seek that first professional job, but the thing that I continue to stress to them is
if you have that drive in the studio environment here at Penn State,
which the studio environment really does an amazing job of creating that sense
of what it will be in the professional life with work ethics, with your resourcefulness
to really push yourself and learn as much as you can.
If you carry that forward into the office environment that's what--
that's what's going to allow you to kind of progress and push yourself forward,
and you know fit in transition, and quite nicely.
I think one of the things that I try to express to students is that don't get burned
out early on; you just take it and try to keep a step [inaudible],
because that's part of the design field.
It's part of architecture and landscape architecture.
I know there're professions that are related because you really just have
to start putting the hours in to get that experience to work your way up the chain,
and don't think it's instantaneous.