Hunter May
Philosophy
“Judging whether life is
or is not worth living amounts to
answering the fundamental
question of philosophy.
All the rest—whether or not the world
has three dimensions, whether the mind
has nine or twelve categories—comes afterwards.”
- Albert Camus
Philosophy
I became interested in philosophy in my later high school years; initially I acquainted myself with the ideas of Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Søren Kierkegaard. From grappling with meaning in the universe, to the underpinnings of what these theories were arguing, I was drawn to philosophy as a whole. At that point, I had taken it up as a major hobby.
Having enrolled in the University of Central Florida I initially declared as a Computer Engineering major; however, becoming dissatisfied with the coursework (and dispirited with a career merely in technology) I decided to pursue that which caught my eye and instilled a passion for learning in me.
Now, I have earned my Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and have developed particular tastes for Ethics, Epistemology, and Ontology, my most recent paper being written on modern environmental ethics and its usage of value theory.
I can see myself taking my career in a few ways: Either to teaching alongside research and writing, or instead of teaching perhaps legal work or architectural drafting.
Drafting
Before beginning my drafting "career" in high school, I hadn't initially shown much interest in architecture, at most I believed engineering was interesting and the most viable career path. I did, however, become quite intrigued with architecture in the first year when analyzing different styles (i.e., gothic, modern, renaissance, etc.) of architecture and still find it as an interest for personal research.
In the first year of the course, we began with hand drawings. Some of which were free hand, while others were done with line tools, and even others done to scale. Drawings included details of common structural features, miscellaneous aspects of our school campus, and more. Below are some of these, which although they are amateurish in nature, I can appreciate where I've come to since then.
To finish of that year we started to learn Autodesk's AutoCAD, which is the CAD software I use to this day. At most we learned the basic use of CAD tools through textbook learning, essentially following a guide, currently though I develop my skills by natural use of the software as a job.
“In order to execute, it is first
necessary to conceive… It is this
product of the mind, this
process of creation, that
constitutes architecture…”
- Étienne-Louis Boullée