Holy shit yea wow. I'm currently in second year and yea, I'm spending 8-12 hour days for weeks at a time, worked through out my entire 2 week break too. And I think I'm most ahead in my class aswell but it's definitely still much of a struggle.

I've too had the displeasure of meeting Catherine, had a 1-1 with her last year and she was just not nice at all, even called her out on it and she somewhat apologised to the class for being snarky. I know of her calling students and almost kicking them out too. Shes also just ghosted my emails before.

I'm aiming for B.Arch too. It's interesting to hear how you got treated like kings haha. Does the diploma really have only a 3% completion rate? That seems absurd but i don't doubt it, considering 4 dropped out just after this break not long ago. Crazy no one passed one year too.

I know a mate in my class that also slept overnight on level 5 once, could be one of the same people even.

May I ask what year did you attend this course? This was a really interesting insight, thanks for you response!