Steven O'Leary:  

Life After graduating from Cal Hi in 1982, Steven attended Cal Poly Pomona to follow his dream of becoming an architect. A short seven years later he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree. Today he is a licensed architect and has worked on custom homes, schools, and civic & university projects. He currently resides in the San Diego area with his wife (whom is also an architect) and their three children. Steven has fond memories of high school, albeit inaccurate and mostly imaginary. And although he's chosen to block out the bad memories -like being trashed-canned his freshman year- he still has a rosy disposition on life. An eternal optimist one might say or perhaps just a simpleton? The jury is still out on that one.... And finally - as always- Steven enjoys writing about himself in the third person. College When I was in second year studio, I had a 7:00 AM Structures class with Professor Chylinski, whom typically would ramble on about how as future architects we wouldn't be so concerned with "jazzy design" because we'd be too busy in legal wranglings with our clients and their contractors. He would literally say,"you'll get sued, you'll be sued - you'll get sued". Inspiring huh? Somehow I had my doubts that our futures could be so bleak, so like many of my classmates I pushed on. Along the way, I was fortunate to work with some very talented instructors and architects, people like Michael Folonis and Charles Calvo to name just two. Charles is no longer with us, he moved onto greener pastures at Auburn and finally at Mississippi State University were he died far too young (42 years) back in 2000. These people inspired me everyday ...Expand for more