Stress and workshop

Architecture is one of the most beautiful but difficult degrees at college. It teaches how to look at the world surrounding us in a different way and from another perspective. You become an architect after you have gone through many courses. However, I would say there is specifically one of them that I consider to be the most important, yet stressful, and that one is Workshop. This course demands plenty of hours a week, including weekends, and you have to deal with it throughout the degree. It is important because it teaches how to build a model, carry out a project and else. At the beginning, the tasks were simple, but that didn't mean they were necessarily easy. In fact, they were sort of difficult to me because I didn't know anything about design or spatial relations. It also requires a lot of creativity and imagination, which were difficult to me as well because I wasn't used to imagine and create things with such level of exactitude. In high school, I almost didn't do these things because there were more relevant subjects according to the teaching staff that needed special attention and dedication. Due to this fact, sometimes I had troubles developing a design that works, so as a consequence I lost a lot of hours working unproductively and I therefore ended up sleeping two-to-three hours the nights before the final evaluation (sometimes I didn't sleep at all). I had to learn the hard way how to manage my time and avoid these stressful situations, so I started to get my priorities straight and eventually the normal sleeping at night became possible. My advice for a new student would be: enjoy your limited free time and manage your responsibilities effectively.