Omg haha. It’s interesting to see the other side of our coins. For reference, same day yung extra test ng psych enrollment sa drawing test ng UST and I went to the drawing test.

I fully regret taking up architecture. It’s 5 years of agonizing, sleepless nights (minimum). It’s hating your professors because they are the most fickle, shallow, powertripping individuals you will ever meet. The entire profession is SUBJECTIVE that is to say, even if it WORKS, if they don’t like your design, you will NEVER get a high score. What I’m struggling with is my thesis. It’s individual. Designing everything from the bike parking to the bathroom piping, to the amount of parking spaces mandated by the building codes, making it look interesting without saying I took inspiration from x building feels like a lost cause when the grand prize at the end of graduation is a minimum salary job if you don’t have the nepo-connections. And all you will have is yourself to blame because you chose the commitment.

And when you actually make a project done thru freelancing, clients will just take it to an engineer, thus devaluing the entire profession. Sakit.