Academic Triumph

Jonathan doesn't have any finals this semester. That's bad. He has four or five projects instead. One of them was for his New Urbanism class, taught by the city's resident urban design genious, Sinclair Black. His firm is responsible for Amli Downtown, renovations on the State Theater, and redoing the Seaholm Power Plant. The city council routinely asks his advice on projects they've got going, like the Mueller redevelopment. Jonathan's presentation impressed the pants off of Sinclair Black.

Every question Professor Black asked had a well-thought-out answer--he had never considered the area Jonathan had proposed to redesign, in this way so there were several very good questions. He also asked Jonathan to continue the map of his proposal from his focus on the transit corridor to as far as he could reasonably reach. In the end, it was obvious that Jonathan's work had opened Professor Black's eyes to the hidden possibilities of this idea. I think there's a seriously good Letter of Recommendation for grad school coming our way.