Off to a great adventure!

Well folks, its been swell. I picked up my cap and gown yesterday tassel and all. I'm actually graduating.

I know if you're a prospective you can relate. We're both leaving our familiar lives for something new and exciting. It's a bit different this time for me. I have no idea what to expect, no classes or teachers and no gigantic institution of a university to keep me on track. Then again, I'm also college educated with a great portfolio and a lot of confidence. I really poured everything I had into this major and I'm very satisfied with what has come out the other end.

I daydream of my near future constantly. I'm finally going to be in the same place as my fiancé and starting off our lives as a unit. We've got all these adventures to pursue that have been building up for the past few of years of a long distance relationship. We can't wait to cook together, ride bikes, visit museums, decorate our apartment... ok, maybe that last one is more me than him. I'll have weekends finally and even the luxury of regular grocery shopping and laundry will be mine. Life is good.

So I'm off! Off on another mad-cap adventure. Thanks Syracuse, for giving me the tools to do what I've always been meant for. Thanks to my parents for being a constant support in every way. Thanks to my friends who have helped me along the way and thanks to myself (as weird as that might seem) for sticking with it and getting through. I'm ready to be done, but I'm thankful for all four years here for helping me be who I am today.

Keep up with me as Allie Jennings now and Allie Kilmer in a little more than a year.

Wish me luck!

- Allie

Winding everything up

Hello again everybody and happy almost summer! I know there are some major gaps in this blog, but time ceased to make sense in my life a couple weeks ago and is only starting to reinstate itself these last couple of days. I, my friend, have a portfolio. I still have a couple tweaks before it goes down to NYC later this week, but it's pretty much what's it's going to be, and I couldn't be happier.

Last Wednesday at our show for family and friends I was just so proud at what our entire grade has done. We really stuck it out through good, bad and worse to get through this major and it paid off as we always trusted it would. Every book on the tables was ready to show at an interview. We're all feeling good about graduating... it's just good all around.

Anyways, this week is all about making those last tweaks and getting everything triple checked and buttoned up for the real world. I've slept a bit more and ate a bit more and I feel like a person. So good!

One of the things I'm buttoning up is my website. It's not completely done yet, but you can still check it out. It'll be done by the end of the week. 

www.AllieDesign.tumblr.com

Maybe you'll recognize some of the projects from earlier posts!