-: Architecture school still is based on a studio system
which is it's sort of like where the studio,
the design studio is the main course.
It's the heart of the school.
You have peripheral classes around that
like where you learn things like structures
and other sort of peripheral disciplines.
But the design studio where you have professor,
you have a handful of how many students
in five to 15 people depending
and you're working on a design problem.
Usually maybe some shorts ones
in the beginning of the semester
and then they get longer
and then you have a long one
at the end of a semester typically.
So those courses were, you know, mind blowing
and completely eye opening
in terms of understanding
the importance of the designed world.
It's all around us and it shapes the way we live our lives
and just that in and of itself
having sort of the scales
fall from your eyes a little bit was fantastic.
I mean actually I did take a fantastic course.
It was taught by a woman who use to work at the World Bank
and sort of got out of that and started teaching this course
but it was basically personal finance
for those who were studying finance.
It was basically giving you an overview
so that you could, you know, do your taxes
and save for understanding the financial world a good bit.
I would love to,
and you know, there's certain like million dollar ideas
I've had along the way
who if I had known how to put together a business plan
or read a spreadsheet or that sort of thing
I would've maybe enjoyed knowing that a little bit more.
At the time it just wasn't my,
I was a little more right-brained.
But yeah, just understanding money
and business a little bit more might've been a great add.
They, I would say getting internships.
Getting their foot in the door.
You know, pull every string you have
to try to get in the door,
even if it's an unpaid internship.
That's the way you build your resume.
Reach out to family friends.
Call, write, be thoughtful and creative
in how you can figure out who in the company
is doing the hiring and what their process is
and just figure out how to start getting that experience
'cause that's what starts building your resume
and that's what starts to look good.
The longer and more substantial those experiences are.
And that's where you start to build references as well.
Show people that you can perform and you're thoughtful
and you're organized and all that,
and it goes on from there.