Throughout your entire history of formal schooling, what do you consider to be your greatest success story?

For me, it was easily my comeback in the architecture program between my junior and senior years in college. During the start of my junior year, I was one of the top students in my graduating class, and by the end of that year, I fell to the bottom because I experienced what could be best described as the architectural equivalent of writer's block. I just couldn't get my ideas out.

So during the summer, I tried to sort through my issues and decided to make a comeback. And I did. My studio grades during the final 3 studios shot way up and I was back on top again!

I was really afraid of being at the bottom, and I think that helped fuel my ambition to recover from my mistakes.