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Months prior to each Spring Break, the school’s Career Ser- vices Coordinator Beth Berenter is hard at work, serving as a liaison between students and architecture firms. Berenter has catered to Taubman students desirous of professional experi- ence since 1999, pairing them up with firms based on their loca- tion preferences. Berenter is inspired by the admirable work ethic of her stu- dent clients. “Architecture students typi- cally work a lot of hours; school isn’t just going to class and going home,” Berenter said. “They literally live in the studio. The fact that they’re willing to give up any kind of break before the final push before graduation or the end of the term is a testament to the firms giving them a good experience.” In terms of the feedback she receives each year, Berenter insists the program is less about studying and more about stu- dents’ saturation within a profes- sional environment. Each firm exudes a unique character specific to the organization, and Berenter stressed the indelible experience of students’ immersion within a specialized workplace. “Many of the undergradu- ate students have never seen the inside of an architecture firm, so they get an eye opening experi- ence of what it’s actually like to be in a firm,” Berenter said. Though originally created exclusively for undergraduate and graduate architecture stu- dents in the early ’90s by the American Institute of Architec- ture Students, the program has grown to also include graduate urban planning students. This year, 45 undergraduate architec- ture students participated in an externship. Among this year’s under- graduate architecture extern- ship participants were Taubman sophomore Taylor Boes and Taubman senior Nathaniel Ros- neck. Boes travelled to Raleigh, North Carolina where she spent the week at Integrated Design. Rosneck chose Cooper, Robert- son & Partners, a firm in New York City. Boes began her education at Taubman last year as a member of the first class to be admitted as freshmen. She contributed to the college’s Research Through Mak- ing exhibition, which explored various tactile fabric therapy sys- tems for autistic children. “It’s really cool to see immedi- ate outcomes of your work,” Boes said. “Creating an environment that can do different things is really interesting to me.” At Integrated Design, a small- er firm of six architects, Boes had fully packed days from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. She opted for the Raleigh firm due to her sister’s residence in the city and its being the workplace of 2010 University alum Sam Berner. In retrospect of her first externship, Boes spoke positively of her experience. She found a greater understanding of how an architectural firm functions through editing projects, sit- ting in on meetings, working on renderings of three-dimensional models and attending an urban design conference. “It was a really good experience to see what a day in the office was like, because its not always just ‘oh here’s the finished product,’” Boes said. “It was nice to see how architecture is outside of an academic context. It’s very different studying something and then going into the actual field.” This year was Rosneck’s sec- ond externship experience. Last winter, he participated in Dis- ney’s college program for the duration of the winter semester at HuntonBrady firm in Orlando. This spring, he decided on the more concentrated environment of New York City at Cooper, Rob- ertson & Partners. “At Cooper Robertson, we worked on the design for a new lifeguard headquarters in Asbury Park, New Jersey,” Rosneck said. “I think what I found so interest- ing about them is that they do a lot of urban planning projects.” Rosneck and three fellow students worked in a team alongside two architects. The duration of their workday consisted of exploring the facets of urban sustainability in the exploration of materials and researching New Jersey codes and regulations for eco-friendly building on the coast. Rosneck believes this year’s externship taught him the value of professional collaboration, which he regarded as a refreshing depar- ture from the more individualized work throughout the school year. “I think that when you get into a work environment, you really real- ize how important collaboration is,” Rosneck said. “I think in stu- dio projects we really tend to wrap our heads around our own project. You kind of zone in on what you’re doing, and in the real world that’s totally not the case.” Both Boes’s and Rosneck’s beneficial externship experiences wouldn’t have been possible without Berenter’s help, and Rosneck wasn’t shy to emphasize his appreciation. “We’re so demanding, and I’m fascinated by how (Berenter) has been so accommodating and so well organized,” Rosneck said. “She’s a fantastic resource for the university.” ‘Glee’ reflects our adolescent selves Beloved FOX series was the voice of a generation By KAREN HUA Daily TV/New Media Editor Every generation has a tele- vision series that defines their coming-of-age experience. For us – gen- eration Y, mil- lennials, call it what you will – Ryan Mur- phy (“American Horror Story”) created “Glee,” a theatrical repre- sentation of the American adoles- cent experience. As young adults now, we may have spent the past few years repressing our high school identities. But ultimately, whether we know it or not, wheth- er we like it or not, part of us has been shaped by the “Glee” phe- nomenon. The series pilot first graced our screens in the spring of 2009 – for some of us, at the peak of middle school; for others, during our entrance into high school – for all of us, post “High School Musical” phase, right at the tumultuous threshold of the tween-to-teen transition. Almost immediately upon hearing the a capella notes of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” (or maybe Salt-n-Pepa’s “Push It”), we all dual-enrolled in our respec- tive high schools and William McKinley High in Lima, Ohio. But somewhere between that first moment and now, we grew older and forgot about “Glee.” The final season even had the low- est viewership and ratings of the entire series. Some former hard- core-Gleeks didn’t even know the series took its final bow and exited stage right as the curtain closed indefinitely this past Friday. The two-hour finale, appropri- ately titled “Dreams Come True,” was first a flashback to the 2009 pilot, then a flash forward to 2020. The episode was just as perfect and just as flawed as the show always has been. And for one last time, it tried to tie up the loose ends at which viewers incessantly screamed. In the present, McKinley is converted to a performing arts school, and the remaining alumni celebrate the exponential progress that developed before their very eyes over the seasons. In more ways than one, the episode wasn’t only the reunion of New Directions – it was the final union of this cast as they waved goodbye to an era. Project forward into the future: all the characters have reached their theatrical and musical aspi- rations, as well as their relation- ship goals. Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer, “Struck by Lightning”) and Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss, “A Very Potter Musical”) are also expecting a baby, whom Rachel, finally a Tony-award-winning actress, is carrying as a surrogate. Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch, “Two and a Half Men”) has managed to become vice president of the United States, but she also shows a softer, more mature side, in con- trast to the jaded bitch we grew to know throughout the series. She makes sincere amendments in too-good-to-be-true monologues of inspiration and even rededi- cates McKinley’s auditorium to the deceased Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) – a noteworthy tribute to Monteith’s memory after he unexpectedly passed away two years ago. And everyone gives their greatest thanks to Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”), the man who started it all. The finale, like the rest of the series, was not completely plau- sible – superficially glossing over issues of continuity and using coincidences for expository conve- nience. How could all the students have continued to be wildly suc- cessful? The despicable Sue Sylves- ter is future vice president of the United States? Almost every single high-school-sweetheart relation- ship worked out? Most of us slowly lost interest in the third season and eventually stopped watching by the fourth, primarily because the plot increasingly became unbelievable. As we gained our own experiences and grew slightly more cynical, we began to realize how the show’s depictions of reality were too perfect and too simply resolved. The show grew cheesy as we grew mature. However, “Glee” addressed this point in the finale, when Sue Sylvester repeated an iconic Finn Hudson quote: “See the world not as it is, but how it should be.” Not everything needed to be a replica of reality in order for it to be pow- erful and poignant. The show was never perfectly accurate, but it showed us the possibility of what situations could be – what charac- ters have the potential to be – even if these representations may not be completely true in real life. The fact is, we were also cheesy and tacky and unoriginal and hyper-overdramatic and pseudo- inspirational; a superficial sheath of makeup complexions and foot- ball jerseys, a mask of insecurities and inadequacies and idiosyncra- sies. Our critique of and eventual disdain for the show was just a cringing reflection on the charac- ters we were during our tumultu- ous teens. Regardless of what “Glee” has become, we cannot renounce the fact that we grew up with it. From middle school, the show held our hand as we stumbled through our own high school’s dim corri- dors. Rachel Berry’s (Lea Michele, “New Year’s Eve”) voice soothed us to sleep after our first bad date or heartbreak. A little bit in all of us strove to be as effortlessly popu- lar as Quinn Fabray (Diana Agron, “I am Number Four”), to be so naturally badass like Noah “Puck” Puckerman (Mark Sailing, “Rocky Road”). However, for all the freaks and geeks, the outsiders and lon- ers, we found solace among the other misfits of McKinley. What we all soon realized was that we all, in some form or fashion, had a big ‘L’ on our foreheads. We all struggled to fit in; we all cried over our identity crises; we all had our respective haters – but we all found our refuge in glee club on Tuesday nights after school. “Glee” shined a direct spotlight on our lives, but it taught us how to stand tall and proud, to take com- mand over our own stage-fight of adolescence. By guiding us with uncomfortable renditions of “Boo- tylicious,” and touching ones like “Cough Syrup” and “Imagine,” “Glee” gave us all the talks the adults in our lives couldn’t – or wouldn’t in high school. “Glee” maturely addressed the nuances of sex, dating and rela- tionships – miraculously providing progressive perspectives without making us cower in fear or scrunch our noses in disgust. The show demonstrated multidimensional- ity behind the most controversial issues: it showed humility in even the most loathsome of characters, urging us to examine deeper and disperse empathy to all characters equally. Being a homosexual buff football player, being an upper- class pregnant cheerleader, being a clumsy boy in a wheelchair – being in love with theater, song and dance – that was all ok, even if the real people in our lives never told us they were. Regardless of our identities, the series taught us how to tackle adversity with grace under pressure. The fact is, “Glee” didn’t changed – we did. “Glee” transitioned from the show we loved, into the show we liked ironically, then finally into the show we loved to hate. The show was never a piece of cinematic art or screenwriting brilliance; what made the show memorable and significant was its timing at the crux of our generation’s malleable adolescent years, right when we needed it most. Even if we haven’t sustained our devotion to “Glee” for the past few years, it was almost impossible not to cry during the series finale. It was still difficult to digest the final end notes: “do-ba-do-ba-do-ba- dah-dahhh” as the credits rolled one last time. Regardless of how hard we try to bury our adolescent years, they are a period of life we can never negate. As awkward, confusing and uncomfortable as they were, they undeniably helped us define who we were – and who we are. As we turn from our teens into our twenties now, whether we like it or not, “Glee” had some sort of impact on raising us. 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