Friday, September 6, 2013

Grassroots 2013


AIAS to Grassroots 2013-

We arrived in D.C. on a Wednesday night and decided to rent bikes (which we THOUGHT were super cheap at the time) to ride around the mall area. The next day was the beginning of the conference and we started every morning off with a cup of coffee and a beat-box.  Juicy-J (Joel Pominville) and N-Zilla the Killa (Nick Tafel) are notorious for their raps at AIAS roll calls and it was AWESOME!  After we got the crowd pumped up, we spent most of the day listening to speakers (some of them counted towards IDP credit) or participating in sessions with all the students to share ideas about everyone’s chapter.  There was a barbeque at the AIA national headquarters on Friday night and a tour of the memorials after that. Saturday night was the big party on the ferry and everyone got dressed up and ate hors d’oeurves like sophisticated architects.  However Matt Barstow did break it down on the dance floor, which was pretty crazy. Overall, the trip was a huge success.  We learned a lot, met some incredible people from all over the country, and had an absolute blast!


Check out this video from of us rapping Grassroots: 


https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0-GEr3mztJweGRrVU9rVVRUVDg/edit?pli=1

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