This course has been very rewarding in terms of both challenges and the payoffs to those challenges. Allow me to expound. When I first opened up SketchUp Make, I was incredibly intimidated. I had the same feeling as when I first opened up Adobe Illustrator six years ago. The tools looked like they didn’t do anything, and upon my initial probing I couldn’t get anything to work. I figured this would be a rough semester spent looking up tutorials on how to perform the most basic of functions. However, when the software was being explained, I found that the learning curve was not as severe as I previously anticipated. The most challenging thing for me to make so far has been making the vase. On my first try, I was really happy just to get the Follow Me tool to cooperate. Then, when Mohammed gave me my print, much to my chagrin, the thing was not hollow. I had forgotten to hollow out my prime shape! Thankfully, this was an easy fix and the rest of the project went on without a hitch. I believe that my greatest strength is my ability to transcribe my ideas onto paper fairly well, that way, when the time comes to create in SketchUp, there is less time spent trying to figure out what we are going for and more time spent honing our final idea. This works well in concert with Adam’s conceptual abilities and I whole heartedly believe that is what makes us a potent pairing.