Before I get to college, I have never thought about I would get into architecture one day. I was not even sure about what I am going to do in the future when I need to pick a major for college. So, I was chosen to study business management as I first wanted to become a hotel manager. However, after a year of studying in business, I didn’t feel I was enjoying during the studying process and couldn’t see myself to work in this field. Because my cousin was graduated from NYCCT and currently working as a drafter for a firm, so we had some conversation about this field, and I decided to switch my major to architecture. As being an architect student for three years, I was found myself been having more and more interest in what I was learning and want to pursue to study more along this path.
As for my dream job, I would like to work as a drafter in either license or not. So for my short term goal is to get my bachelor degree in BTech degree from NYCCT and would like to get an internship from a small firm to help me to get experience from each phase of producing a drawing set, because what we learned in college are just some basic skills that we might in the future job, but when we enter the actual working field, we need to learn a lot more in order to make us to be in the higher level in the job, so it is better to start internship in a small firm to get basic knowledge of different phase of a project from the beginning to the end. For the long-term goal might be to work in a bigger firm and gain as much experience as possible and hopefully able to pass the ARE to become a RA someday.
