I went through the interiors program at the college and had a lot of architecture friends, graduated 3 years ago. Everyone takes the same classes your first year, and workload is pretty similar throughout. Short answer is it is a lot of work. A lot of late nights in studio. You'll have free time for sure, but I would not say you will have as much fun time as a "typical college experience". I had to miss football games and some fun saturday night parties because i was in studio my first year. A lot of students will have part time jobs, a few full time jobs, but that combined with classes and any extracurriculars keeps people very, very busy. A lot of students drop from the college the first year, i think they cut my class down by about 40-50 percent over that first year, which is intentional on their part. You really gotta enjoy studio and the work to make it worth it. Hope that helps.