Philadelphia University

Date: Sep 30 2006
Major: Architecture (This Major's Salary over time)
If you're going into the field of architecture be prepared to have no life. You do about 1 project every 1.5-1.7 weeks. A project usually consists of a ton of work followed by the professor pointing out everything you do wrong for 5-10 minutes straight depending on his time left in class. Now, it's pretty hilarious when he's picking on everyone else, but if you're going to do architecture make sure you can handle a little bit of vocal harassment. SOOOO the first project for a first year student is a shoe model. This includes takeing a shoe, and making 15-20 perfect sketches every 3/4s inch or so. You take the sketches and figure out on your own how to transfer the sketches to the 1/8 inch cardboard. you then have to take the cardboard and since my shoe was 13 inches long, I had to make a 13 inch shoe out of 1/8 inch perfectly cut slices. That's 104 slices. They make you do the first one in a night or 2 so you will stay up all night. You wont sleep. Then the next day they gave us 5 days to do 3 more shoes with different orientations and make 3 20x30 boards with all of the sketches drawn and inked. It's a tough major and many of you guys I assume will cry often.

As for advice, use the tutoring staff. They're good people and are a lot of help. Like my calc teacher speaks so-so english and always stands right in front of what he's writing. So all I have to do is walk into this room at 12ish and write my name on a paper to show that the tutor lady is getting people.

All in all, even though the Design class is really really tough they do teach you a lot about art. Like they'll find a mistake and say its like that for the purpose of the design. You then have to figure out what a good excuse is for that. Not an excuse as in the knife slipped and I cut the board to far, but a very creative excuse that I can't think of right now.