Laura, thanks to you for your participation. I really enjoyed meeting you and heard many positive things about your "real life" session from the students – great job! Thanks so much for your feedback – we always try to learn from the year before. Regards,
Andie Moeder, IIDA, LEED AP, HOK

I love your website!
Nana Kersh Winters, Schooler Kellogg & Company

Love your newsletter! You are just so creative!
Ann McCurdy

I was reviewing your list of Design Schools and saw that for Kansas you have listed: Fort Hays State University , Johnson County Community College , Kansas State University and University of Kansas . ALL of which you have listed as being FIDER accredited, which is incorrect. If you check www.fider.org you will see that Kansas State University is the ONLY school in Kansas that is FIDER accredited. I hope you take the time to review this, because a prospective student may easily be mislead by your information. Thank you.
Megan Stearman, KSU

P&C Response:
Thank you very much for writing because we truly do want input from readers. If you look at the entries closely, however, you will see that I have not listed any Kansas school except for KSU as FIDER accredited. The entry for Fort Hays State University , for example, reads as…

Location: Fort Hays FIDER accredited: NO ASID Student Chapter: YES IIDA Campus Center: NO

The problem lies with how the text shows up on the site, and you are the second person in 6 months to mention this. When I prepped the information for each school, I actually entered it to read as…

Fort Hays State University
Location: Fort Hays
FIDER accredited: NO
ASID Student Chapter: YES
IIDA Campus Center: NO

However, when my content management system processes it, it runs all together. I think what I’m going to have to do now (since 2 people have now mentioned it) is go back to every single entry and put semicolons in between so that it will read as…

Fort Hays State University
Location: Fort Hays; FIDER accredited: NO; ASID Student Chapter: YES; IIDA Campus Center: NO

Counter-response:
I see what you mean now, though it is hard to catch right away. Yes, I think commas would do the trick. Except, talk about some more sleepless nights! Good luck with that and the rest of your website! Best regards, Megan Stearman

I love your web page – it is very, very helpful and so creative. I think that it is a great idea to gear it towards high school students interested in the profession. I think a lot of people undermine and don’t exactly understand what Interior Designers do, but slowly the doors are opening. It was such a pleasure meeting you, and I wanted to thank you for making me feel like I am ahead of the game and have a chance in whatever I choose to do. It’s nice to have someone notice my drive, passion, wild dreams and endless goals. I can’t wait to start this new chapter in my life but most of all I can’t wait to share my experience and help others that will soon be going through this.
Selange Gitschner, design student from Texas State University

Hi there~ I was wondering if you have a section on your website that lists internships around Dallas for us interior design students that don’t know where to begin to look! Thanks, I love your newsletters!!!
Shelbie Miller, Texas Tech University

P&C Response:
Thanks so much for writing and expressing interest in this service. I am planning on doing this and have already developed a name for it, in fact: JobLiNK. However, as you can see, I don’t yet have it up and running, which does you no good, does it” I would love to get it going by May – end of semester time – but I can’t guarantee that. Of course, I can be only successful in this endeavor if local firms choose to participate. The good news is that I’m trying hard to get the P&C word out there and make people understand the benefit of what I am trying to do, so hopefully by May I’ll have even more credibility, and therefore, local cooperation. So all I can tell you to do at the moment is to stay tuned and spread the word. Thanks!