As a little girl, I always had a passion for drawing and creating. At the time my uncle was an engineer and my dad was a kitchen designer and installer. At the age of nine years old my grandma wanted to building a house and to do that she went to an architect in the local area. During the times she would go, I would always be sure to go with her and pay attention to what the architect would be talking about. After the few times I went, thats when I realized I knew what I wanted to do as my career.
My dream career in the future was to be come an architect who is highly respected by many people and gets the job done correct. As of today I am a student in City Tech College and is currently in the field of studying architecture. I am in my fourth year and is almost done with my degree requirements. Being in this field of study, I have learned so much and I am able to apply the information I learned to the working world. I have interned in an architecture office before and it is very interesting what goes on. As for the few months of being there, I have learned so much. One thing I have noticed is that being able to actually work in the field and going to school learning the materials and skills is very different from each other.
I definitely feel that I have learned more being in the actual field it self with guidance of architects I was working with rather than what is taught in school. Overall I really enjoy being in this field. It is very interesting and I am able to brainstorm, draw out my ideas and really get creative with designing. Even though there is so much work to do in this field, it is extremely worth all the stress. Once you complete the job you end up feeling proud of the work you did. A quote that I heard a lot and has stuck to me was, “As an architect you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown. – Norman Foster”
