Does anyone regret studying Architecture?
I'm now 90% sure that I am attending UWE for Architecture and Planning this September, but I would like to heard from other students about the negatives for studying Architecture.
Here's my list of negative points for Architecture:
- being glued to the computer using Microstation and photoshop for hours etc
- 7 years of studying (8 years in my case)
- one huge student loan to be paid off at the end of 7 years.
Here's my list of negative points for Architecture:
- being glued to the computer using Microstation and photoshop for hours etc
- 7 years of studying (8 years in my case)
- one huge student loan to be paid off at the end of 7 years.
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s.h.
there will be a lot of disadvantages for doing architecture, but if you are really willing to do it then those disadvantages wont really bother you.
Exactly. If you really want to study architecture and be an architect, then the positives out weigh the negatives.
Sure, you'll be in a fair bit of debt, but with the salary of an architect plus the money from those 2 years working should mean that that debt should be paid off fairly quickly.
The workload shouldn't be too much of a problem if you enjoy what you're doing, plus in the first year they'll probably ease you into the course so you'll have more time to do uni stuff (getting pissed, socializing, playing sports etc). As to being glued in front of a computer, I guess that it is inventible but I would probably depend on what uni you go to on how much time you spend in front a computer screen.
Its a fun degree- a lot of work , but fun work. However its def not the degree to go into if you want to make lots of money. Its not just living costs you'll have to pay for - but also materials etc
bananamoonbeam
Its a fun degree- a lot of work , but fun work. However its def not the degree to go into if you want to make lots of money. Its not just living costs you'll have to pay for - but also materials etc
That's true. At Oxford Brookes they say you'll spend about £200-300 on materials alone. Add to that field trips (although there not compulsory, you'd still want to go) and it is definitely expensive.
yeah Sheffield is the same with field trips. Also drawing board, endless amounts of tracing paper, foamboard, cardboard...it all adds up! And you're so busy with the course that it's hard to balance a part time job at the same time.
...but thats not to say you won't enjoy architecture. Personally I'd much rather enjoy the degree I'm studying and perhaps have slightly less time and money to spend on clothes and going out, than be stuck studying a degree that I have absoloutly no interest in.
...but thats not to say you won't enjoy architecture. Personally I'd much rather enjoy the degree I'm studying and perhaps have slightly less time and money to spend on clothes and going out, than be stuck studying a degree that I have absoloutly no interest in.
I'd say its the longest, one of the hardest, most costly degrees you can do. If you did a chart of how many hours you put in, how much work you do, and how much you get paid you'd avoid it like the plague. But we're all nutters and do it anyway!
We know we're going to be poor, skint, nakered and over worked. We're all happy to work 100 hour weeks without gettin paid. We're happy to wreck our eyesight by staring at screens, and become some kind of hobbit / ghost creature like on the Machinist. But that's architecture. I love it or leave it.
Personally, I love the thrill and the lack of logic to study it, its about love passion desire, it tests you to the limits. But anything like art/acting/film making is always going to be something you enter into because of the love rather than some kind of gain.
If you want wedge go into economics and get a job in IB.
It shouldn't seem like a 7 year sentence, rather 7 years of time when you'll be having the best time of your life doing so mething itnerestesting and challenging rather than memorising textbooks like you do on most other bland courses.
It's your life, spend it as you wish. If you've got doubts - don't do it.
We know we're going to be poor, skint, nakered and over worked. We're all happy to work 100 hour weeks without gettin paid. We're happy to wreck our eyesight by staring at screens, and become some kind of hobbit / ghost creature like on the Machinist. But that's architecture. I love it or leave it.
Personally, I love the thrill and the lack of logic to study it, its about love passion desire, it tests you to the limits. But anything like art/acting/film making is always going to be something you enter into because of the love rather than some kind of gain.
If you want wedge go into economics and get a job in IB.
It shouldn't seem like a 7 year sentence, rather 7 years of time when you'll be having the best time of your life doing so mething itnerestesting and challenging rather than memorising textbooks like you do on most other bland courses.
It's your life, spend it as you wish. If you've got doubts - don't do it.
The negatives don't sound too bad.
I'm hoping my company will sponser me through my BA course, so it won't be as expensive.
I won't get any financial backing from my mom since she's retired, so everything is coming off my own back plus loans to pay for everything!
I'm hoping my company will sponser me through my BA course, so it won't be as expensive.
I won't get any financial backing from my mom since she's retired, so everything is coming off my own back plus loans to pay for everything!
I won't lie, sometimes you will get so unbelievably miserable, but when everything starts to go right it is fantastic.
It is a difficult learning curve at the start, but you fall right into it.
It is a difficult learning curve at the start, but you fall right into it.
ArchiBoi
I'd say its the longest, one of the hardest, most costly degrees you can do. If you did a chart of how many hours you put in, how much work you do, and how much you get paid you'd avoid it like the plague. But we're all nutters and do it anyway!
We know we're going to be poor, skint, nakered and over worked. We're all happy to work 100 hour weeks without gettin paid. We're happy to wreck our eyesight by staring at screens, and become some kind of hobbit / ghost creature like on the Machinist. But that's architecture. I love it or leave it.
Personally, I love the thrill and the lack of logic to study it, its about love passion desire, it tests you to the limits. But anything like art/acting/film making is always going to be something you enter into because of the love rather than some kind of gain.
If you want wedge go into economics and get a job in IB.
It shouldn't seem like a 7 year sentence, rather 7 years of time when you'll be having the best time of your life doing so mething itnerestesting and challenging rather than memorising textbooks like you do on most other bland courses.
It's your life, spend it as you wish. If you've got doubts - don't do it.
We know we're going to be poor, skint, nakered and over worked. We're all happy to work 100 hour weeks without gettin paid. We're happy to wreck our eyesight by staring at screens, and become some kind of hobbit / ghost creature like on the Machinist. But that's architecture. I love it or leave it.
Personally, I love the thrill and the lack of logic to study it, its about love passion desire, it tests you to the limits. But anything like art/acting/film making is always going to be something you enter into because of the love rather than some kind of gain.
If you want wedge go into economics and get a job in IB.
It shouldn't seem like a 7 year sentence, rather 7 years of time when you'll be having the best time of your life doing so mething itnerestesting and challenging rather than memorising textbooks like you do on most other bland courses.
It's your life, spend it as you wish. If you've got doubts - don't do it.
lol im a nutter as well! reading that has got me realy excited again, im looking forward to going and spend 100 hours a week of working on models!
not looking forward to being poor! but it'll be fun all the same!
i couldn't agree more
you may find tho that sometimes friends outside your course may not understand the fact that you have to become a hermit, but stick with it, they come round to the idea. the benefits and rewards from the work and the close social scene in the studios is well worth it.
yossarianlives
I won't lie, sometimes you will get so unbelievably miserable, but when everything starts to go right it is fantastic.
It is a difficult learning curve at the start, but you fall right into it.
It is a difficult learning curve at the start, but you fall right into it.
you may find tho that sometimes friends outside your course may not understand the fact that you have to become a hermit, but stick with it, they come round to the idea. the benefits and rewards from the work and the close social scene in the studios is well worth it.
the most tedious time for me is the final couple of weeks of a two week project where you are working to make beautiful presentation images and models of a scheme you know inside out and are sick of as you've been thinking about it pretty much non-stop for the past 3 months - so there's actually very little original thought of "discovery" in it for you - its robotically making, drawing, laying out.... i find it hard to get too fired up about this part of the project, but obviously its important or all your ideas won't come across well at the crit. is this what they mean by the expression "a necessary evil"?
jrhartley
the most tedious time for me is the final couple of weeks of a two week project where you are working to make beautiful presentation images and models of a scheme you know inside out and are sick of as you've been thinking about it pretty much non-stop for the past 3 months - so there's actually very little original thought of "discovery" in it for you - its robotically making, drawing, laying out.... i find it hard to get too fired up about this part of the project, but obviously its important or all your ideas won't come across well at the crit. is this what they mean by the expression "a necessary evil"?
How many hours do you spend on your coursework?
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