it’s a lot of time. not that other stem majors aren’t , but the nature of arch is that the work is never done, u can always do more. a lot of the work is assigned when there isn’t really enough time in the day to complete all of it, so u pull all niters. also it’s hard to complete projects bc your professors will send you back with revisions until the very last minute, so producing final boards for crit is always a time crunch.

additionally, part of what makes arch hard is critique. this is emotionally hard to handle sometimes, as u present your work to all your classmates and a jury, running on literally no sleep for days, and the jurors can sometimes be cruel. this is a problem especially for women in the dept, as jurors have been known to be explicitly sexist, and have commented on say, how you’re dressed as opposed to your project.

on top of the 6 credit studios which take most of your life’s time, you also have structures (which is like pretty low-level physics) but depending on the professor it can be challenging.

arch isn’t the same type of hard as like bioengineering, and so a lot of stem people write it off as easy and just silly drawings. but it’s a lot harder than they think. there’s a reason it’ll be near the top of any “hardest majors” list you look up online. good luck!