IDEO for Me! Maybe.

As if it's not bad enough to wake up at 7 am on a Monday, it was cold this morning. What up Savannah? Get with it, it's spring. So after making the long 15-minute trek to my class through the bitter cold wind, sleet, and snow, the guard refused to let me in the building. I didn't have a lame "Spring" sticker on my i.d., therefore, I could not be admitted. Please bear in mind that my class would start in 6 minutes.

I had to turn around and make the trip back to my residence hall. There, I had to wait until the office opened at 8:30 to get the little sticker which would magically grant me entrance to class, to which I would inevitably be 45 minutes late.

I won't talk about how irritated I was. But I was. Oh I was.

The day redeemed itself because I went to a presentation tonight given by Bill Moggridge. I know—you don't know who that is. Don't get your panties all in a bunch, I'm about to explain.

Bill Moggridge is one of the founders of IDEO, the company that introduced me to industrial design and inspired me, the industrial design firm of pretty much the world. It's something like the No. 1 innovative business in the U.S. and it has offices all over the world. It's big. It's my dream company. He also was one of the designers to work on the first ever laptop. Ever. He also contributed to a bunch of other unprecedented projects that would just blow your mind.

I attended the presentation and it reminded me of what I liked about industrial design, which was good because lately I've just been not so sure how I feel about it. When it was over, my friend told me she was going to go talk to Bill and just ask him some questions. Ah! (that was a screech on my part) Wait, talk to him?!

I agreed to tag along and I ended in a short conversation with him where he basically told me that if I'm looking for internships with IDEO, the window is tiny. They give preference to students where IDEO has programs set up, like Boston, Palo Alto, and San Francisco because that's where some of their offices are.

Ahem...my God can make a way there is no way, and He has an incredible plan for my life whether I end up in industrial design or not, so Bill, you can just wait and see. And that's all I have to say about that.