this is the card matt picked out for me for valentines day..
it was not what i was expecting when i ripped open the envelope!
but what he wrote inside was very sweet.
i really liked my valentine this year :)
for our sake, i wanted to document a few things about the competition matt was involved in last week.
and lots of people have asked me what it was and i have been brutal at explaining it.
"matt will be competing in a...competition.."
so, for anyone who is curious, i am going to attempt to give a better explanation..
the whole event is hosted by 50 of the most successful construction companies in the US.
and they do the majority of their recruiting at these events, so it's a huge perk to be a part of them.
there are several different categories of competitions. matt's was called 'design-build'.
him and his team of 6 was given a TON of documents describing the requirements for a pretend medical building that they had to design and estimate the cost of.
they had one day to to work and then they had to present their plan to a panel to be scored.
they had to think about every little detail. seriously EVERY detail.
it boggles my mind how they figured it all out. but somehow they did.
and they ended up scoring really well in the end. yay!
matt's team met for {what seemed like} a billion hours a week to prepare for this. so i am thrilled that they did so well.
after the competition part of the weekend was over, there was a huge job fair where students had the opportunity to meet/interview with the hosting companies.
our fingers are crossed that matts' charming personality won him an internship for this fall.
and this is chet sporting the dragon tattoo matt brought him as a souvenir of reno:
i wasn't thrilled about chet having a dragon tattoo, but i figured that it didn't really matter since no one else would see it.
but.. of course, this had to be the weekend we decide to go swimming!
bad timing.
but what he wrote inside was very sweet.
i really liked my valentine this year :)
for our sake, i wanted to document a few things about the competition matt was involved in last week.
and lots of people have asked me what it was and i have been brutal at explaining it.
"matt will be competing in a...competition.."
so, for anyone who is curious, i am going to attempt to give a better explanation..
the whole event is hosted by 50 of the most successful construction companies in the US.
and they do the majority of their recruiting at these events, so it's a huge perk to be a part of them.
there are several different categories of competitions. matt's was called 'design-build'.
him and his team of 6 was given a TON of documents describing the requirements for a pretend medical building that they had to design and estimate the cost of.
they had one day to to work and then they had to present their plan to a panel to be scored.
they had to think about every little detail. seriously EVERY detail.
it boggles my mind how they figured it all out. but somehow they did.
and they ended up scoring really well in the end. yay!
matt's team met for {what seemed like} a billion hours a week to prepare for this. so i am thrilled that they did so well.
after the competition part of the weekend was over, there was a huge job fair where students had the opportunity to meet/interview with the hosting companies.
our fingers are crossed that matts' charming personality won him an internship for this fall.
this is matt's snazzy trophy:
and this is chet sporting the dragon tattoo matt brought him as a souvenir of reno:
i wasn't thrilled about chet having a dragon tattoo, but i figured that it didn't really matter since no one else would see it.
but.. of course, this had to be the weekend we decide to go swimming!
bad timing.
