First week back, they gathered first years through to fourth years in one great lecture theatre for a motivational and inspiring "chat"(our program Director liked to call it, but it was just a lecture) about the years to come. Our program director talked about how failure didn't represent your overall success in life and that some of your best work is not in your first, second or third but your fourth year so don't stress. He addressed student concerns about employment and admitted that we may not all graduate as designers but stem into other positions in the built environment field. He also addressed the "great conundrum of architecture students" - having no life - and said that they've compressed and changed the course over the years so that the workload and the time you spend on projects is not wasted energy. He basically said that 4 years of giving up your life is nothing compared to what you will be achieving. So yes, no life if you want to do extremely well.
Then we had another one hour lecture with our year lecturer who I've never had before. She's really nice and passionate about teaching and not biased towards certain styles of architecture (she loves all kinds from minimal to grandeur). She sounds a little OCD to be honest. The workload that she's set out is a little extreme - 25 hours of research a week, a pitch to our "client" aka tutors each week, and 2 fast-paced briefs over 4 weeks. That's a brief given and due every 2 weeks.I'm scared. I'm nervous. I've done this before yet I'm not used to it. I don't think I'll ever get used to it.
I like finding quotes from architecture students because I feel less isolated when I'm experiencing a mental breakdown.
Let's try not to get into them in the first place, I guess.
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