<li><p>It is the most time-consuming major of all.</p></li>
<li><p>Salaries after graduation are some of the lowest</p></li>
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<p>What’s the appeal? You’re working your butt off in college only to make a lot less than other majors such as business, engineering, etc.</p>
<p>Architecture would be the LAST major I would choose</p>
<p>Because architects love architecture so much that it's worth the time and the difference in salary. Heck, I <em>wanted</em> to be an architect major, but I couldn't because of my lack of talent.</p>
<p>'Architecture would be the LAST major I would choose'</p>
<p>So why are you here? You need to be in the business forum discussing how much money you're going to make after graduation.</p>
<p>rick</p>
<p>Or you could work for a non-profit organization and go "wow, I wish I were earning the big bucks that architects make" haha</p>
<p>Because sometimes people don't care how much money they make-
Because sometimes people don't think of how much "work" they have to do when they love doing it.
Because sometimes it is enough for someone to know they are doing exactly what they want to be doing and that they wouldn't trade it for anything. </p>
<p>But mostly because all architects are crazy and can't see themselves doing anything else.</p>
<p>what kind of major allows you to go to argentina, chile, peru, ecuador, brazil, uruguay, for a design studio in just one summer?? i can't wait!</p>
<p>Architects work until their dead because they love what they do. Most people go to work and they hate their jobs. For Architects, it's not work it's a way of life.</p>
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<li><p>but i would much rather make models and draw than write a ton of essays, read a ton of chapters, and take a ton of tests</p></li>
<li><p>yea but if you start out in interships early and get a good reputation, each time you go back, you get more money...so technically you'll start making more after you graduate since you can now demand more becuase of your experience</p></li>
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<p>but why do you care? youre probably just jealous that while we work the hardest, we also have the most fun. ask how many business or biology majors know everyone in their class on a personal level. see if they can name everyone</p>
<p>Whoa people, chill... I believe lilwaynefan is asking for opinions, not trying to judge or get bitter on anyone...</p>
<p>Personally from what I see so far architects pretty much live in their own world of their passion, not exactly something you can understand by just logics...</p>
<p>I wise man once told me:
Do what you love and the money will follow.</p>
<p>True in some cases, too bad theres another saying: One's expectation is always higher than reality suggests.</p>
<p>Because he surprised me by telling me just before college application season that that's what he wanted to go into. I was very reluctant and he had a hard time selling it to me. Yet ...every conversation we had, my observations while standing or sitting behind him during school visits, my questions to family, friends and ex-teachers about their feelings of my sons interest in arch, plus my personal recollections of his childhood hobbies, schoolwork and interests lead me to the conclusion that he was heading toward architecture all his life.... I just didn't recognize it, but now I do. He's happy and I'm thrilled.</p>