<p>justin-- no, she goes to my school in san francisco, she's earlying too good luck to all of us, hopefully in two weeks everything will go well</p>
<p>panantha-- i wasn't speaking specifically to you, i'm sure your son's work is his own, i'm not accusing you. you said something about choosing what work with your son to put in his portfolio, and personally, i can't imagine my parents doing that with me. however, i'm as egoistic as any wannabe architect will be, so maybe my situation doesn't apply to yours</p>
<p>take it easy. we're all nervous for decisions, and the arch program is tough. i have another first choice, so things aren't as serious for me, maybe.</p>
<p>Anotherann: I do understand that you are not accusing me of anything. I welcome your comments. I am a parent who wants the best for my child(I'm sure every parent has the same hopes). When my son submitted his portfolio work to Cornell, he did ask my opinion when selecting certain pieces of work to submit and I gave him my honest opinion. When he had a choice of two and wanted to submit one of them, I told him which one I would have picked of the two. Having said this, the decision was ultimately his.</p>
<p>I know that all of you are anxiously waiting and I wish the best to all of you.</p>
<p>Besides architecture, is it important that you agree with your declared major junior year? Anyone knows if students begin taking classes freshman year for urban students?</p>
<p>another ann: I did see that you had posted it. But earlier you said -
"take it easy. we're all nervous for decisions, and the arch program is tough. i have another first choice, so things aren't as serious for me, maybe."</p>
<p>anymore EDers applying to architecture school?</p>
<p>When my son was looking for some guidance on what kind of art work is required for portfolio - he ran into one from this site, which was really good. Here is the link for those of you that is still looking to submit portfolios.</p>
<p>i can see that jimminy is talented in watercolors but i fail to see why professors would really want to accept him..i mean is it really creative? or simply copying from a photograph and painting it on paper?</p>
<p>justin, i'm right there with you. but i don't want to speak too fast. i'd love to see your work / share mine, do you have an SN? IM me at l1ne9 if you get this</p>
<p>Justin: What I see here is that the project he worked on shows the passion for art. An eight or nine month project shows a lot of dedication - surely, this is not copying something. It also shows that he is willing to experiment with new mediums like cement/hand glazed tiles. I do agree with you on the water color part of it - I wondered a lot about it too. I also did not see a lot of variations - I mean mediums like acryllic/pencil/charcoal etc... it is mostly water color.</p>
<p>If you have your artwork and are willing to share, I will be happy to ask my son to share his.</p>
<p>i have artwork on various photo sites. most of my photos have nothign to do with my portfolio but any artwork on there is probably included within the portfolio. and sorry, a lot of the photos are quite dark.</p>
<p>sparticus: Arch students are notorious for having sleepless nights. Do you know or have heard from other Arch students what causes the stress? Is it the workload or the critique from the professors or both? Also, do you know of Arch students that work on campus in addition to their heavy workload? Is this possible?</p>
<p>the stress comes from having too little time to do everything that is assigned. Some people can handle it but for most people, it is tough and all nighters are normal. Some people, like me, who are perfectionists and can't stand creating a mediocre project are often frustrated because the design process is long and it's hard to balance it with other college work. The critiques don't make the students stressed out, but for the most part, demoralizes them and for some, decreases their self esteem. It was like this at summer college, except it wasn't too bad because we didn't have other cornell college courses to take.</p>
<p>but it might be the critiques that drives stress because students aren't willing to create a poor project. So in order to create a good one, you must spend a lot of time on the project...it isn't building the models that take a long time...it's more like coming up with a good idea and reinforcing an idea..that takes a long time.</p>