Architecture students do not get as much credit as they deserve. They often go overlooked and are some of the hardest working students on any campus that actually offers architecture. After being an architecture major for one year, I'm more than thankful to be out but have nothing but the utmost respect for architects. If you're an architecture major, this one's for you.

1. You LIVE at studio.

You might as well stop paying rent at your apartment because you spend more time at studio anyways. You're there every hour of the day and in studio more than a STEM major is in Marston because Marston just isn't open that long. If you weren't supposed to be there that long, you wouldn't have your own desk.

2. Life outside architecture? That's funny.

"I can't, I have to go to studio," is all your non-architecture friends hear anymore. But on the upside, you build amazing friendships with the people in your studio. They're the only people who understand what you're going through.

3. You and your body are on two different timezones.

You stay up the majority of the night and you're lucky if you have time for a two hour nap during the day. Your body is on a completely different timezone than you, and when you do finally get to sleep, it's not long enough.

4. Ordering food to studio.

When you do have time to eat, it has to be in studio. When you set your location to "Architecture Studio," the Bite Squad driver already knows to park at Broward and come up the steps.

5. All the plotters in the building are broken.

After an all nighter of photoshopping and drawing, when you go to print your work- all the plotters are broken. You break into every single studio with your USB hoping to find a plotter that isn't jammed or out of ink or paper that you can hijack to bring to a working plotter that ran out of paper.

6. Weight fluctuation.

This doesn't happen to everyone, but I know quite a few people who, including myself, have experienced this. Your body either isn't getting enough sleep and you're gaining weight, or you're losing weight from not having time to eat. During six weeks of summer studio classes, my weight fluctuated twelve pounds up and down about three times.

7. All your money goes to supplies.

Half of your bank account goes towards buying architecture materials. For Design 1, every project is going to need Vellum, linears and tacky glue. This is already on top of the hundreds of dollars you have to spend on a drafting board, rulers, x-acto knives, triangles, lead holders, eraser, a cutting mat and sketch books, not including the monthly membership and paid downloads for Adobe Photoshop, Autocad and Rhino.

8. The 3AM Crisis

Every student has experienced this at least once whether it's breaking your project you worked all night on (me in the header photo), running out of linears or the plotters breaking. Anxiety attacks or meltdowns are optional.

Go hug an Architecture student today. They need it.