I'm Going To Start Studying Architecture Next Year, Any Advice For A Baby Architect?

I'm going to start studying architecture next year, any advice for a baby architect?

good luck with your journey, dear.

architecture is a very time-consuming, hard discipline, but it's beautiful and heart moving at the same time. just stick to it and i guarantee you that everything is gonna be okay.

i made this post a few months ago about things i wish i knew before i started architecture, try to check it out 💞

barely passed a math exam but ehy still passed. it's been a tough couple of months.

you become very dangerous when you realise you can do it alone

I failed an important exam last year and now that I'm going to give it a try again in one month, I'm so scared... scared to fail it again despite all the work I've put into. I don't know why but I can't bring myself to believe that everything is going to be okay... Any advices...?

failing, unfortunately, is part of our growth process and i think that many institutions (especially school) consider failure as something shameful, something that must be punished. yet it is only by making mistakes that we really learn things. it's so paradoxical to be scared of failure, because failure is inevitable, it's part of life, we should accept it, feel good about it, yet society doesn't let us do it, it just makes us feel guilty, like we're wasting time, like we weren't enough. it is not so. we are doing everything right, even if we make mistakes sometimes.

hi angels,

i'm moving to spain in a couple of weeks for university, do you have any tips or advice for me? it's the first time i go abroad for a long period of time (one year) and also the first time i live without my family. i'd be lying if i said i'm not scared lol.

i have a question: why do you keep sabotaging yourself? why is it that as soon as you think something is just out of your reach you do everything you can to get in your own way? why is it that as soon as things seem to be going right, you plant your feet and sit on the ground with your legs crossed?

you're not fucking lucky. you worked for it, you sweated, and you cried, and you sacrificed so much to reach the level of knowledge and skill you have now.

have you worked so hard only to say "how lucky"? no, damn it, i won't let you. you may not be a genius, you may not be the best in the world, but do you fucking think anyone could do what you did? do you think anyone could get to where you are? do you believe that anyone has the possibilities that you have?

put this in your head, you are not unexpressed potential, you are exceptional and with your hard work you can achieve unimaginable things. stop wasting your dreams just because they seem too big for the drawer.

edit : in italian we say "dream in the drawer" when we refer to a hope that is unlikely to come true, but not impossible.

ex. my dream in the drawer is to become a famous singer all over the world

(just in case you didn't understand the last sentence)