Difference between Architecture student and other students??

[deshmukhomkar]

Difference between Architecture student and other fields student??

Seating in front of my drafting table i was just thinking of my past architecture studies and life...submissions,those late night studies , eleventh our model making , running for plotting , xeroxing the journals , computer failure before the day of submissions....that is amazing..but whats the different between us and the other students like medical or enggi. students? what do u think?? is there any difference?

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[innova+e]

compared to 'other students' in pre-professional programs such as law, medical, (insert favorite other here), architecture students can look forward to lower pay per hours spent in lab/school when compared with the aformentioned. My advice, go out on your own, no salary cap. .
good luck.
ac

[Married To The Job]

It's been a long time since I was a student, but if memory serves, there's quite a difference between architecture students and non-architecture students. The main difference I remember is that my college roommate only knew about a handful of her classmates before she was a junior. I knew all sixty of mine. By the time I was in grad school, my dozen classmates were like family. Twenty years later, most of us still are.

Doing architecture is a bit like boot camp for marines. All those shared challenges have a way of exposing strengths and weaknesses for the entire class. In addition, you must 'DO', not just study and regurgitate. Very few other curriculums require you submit to a rigorous critique process as well. I was amazed at how thin-skinned non-architecture students were. My non-arch. friends were so worried about the subtleties of grades and their GPAs. Much less griping about grades in architecture. Technical correctness is not the only piece of the puzzle...showmanship, graphic prowess, radical risktaking...it all played a part.

So underneath it all, these things are something we share with architects who study in similar programs. Being an architecture student was viewed as a lifestyle, not merely a degree program. Granted, the only thing I did at the time was be an architecture student. I had married classmates, and classmates with children -- I would imagine their experience was a bit different. I'm not sure I would have made it if I would have had many other outside responsibilities.

I suppose other arts/design courses can have similar effects; however, a mistake in a painting later in life just means it will be less aesthetically pleasing. A mistake in architecture might mean someone's life is at stake.

[nox_armada]

wondering...architecture mistakes? hmm...

[MaNaeSWolf]

As I am still a Architecture student and I have spent a year studying something else I can tell you.
Its Wednesday today, tomorrow I have a test, Friday I have 4 assignments to hand in. Im not stressed because I know I have the whole of tonight to study + 24 hours to do the other 4 assignments before friday. The real reason why I am not stressing is because not one of those 4 assignments is a Design Hand in!!!

Any other student would have caved by the test tomorrow part!

[Married To The Job]

Regarding the last post on not stressing -- I can completely relate. I finished all of my required electives a couple of years before I graduated w/my BArch. So I was able to take some non-architecture design classes in theater. I even talked another arch. student into taking a set design class with me. I've never seen so much whining and griping about simple design projects. From my point of view, it was like a vacation. Some of the theater students would have curled up and died if they'd ever been exposed to an actual architectural design critique.

There is no crying in architecture.

[Frenk01]

We are really being brainwashed, others not ...

[norcalian]

Other students sleep.

[166kristina]

Architecture students get to play on this and can say it's for their studies!

The Super Architect!