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Anyone doing Architecture?

  • 15-01-2010 3:47pm
    #1
    ainrialai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭


    Hi,
    Im a Leaving Cert student and had been planning on doing engineerng since the start of the year.
    Now Im interested in doing architecture.
    Does anyone have any info on it.
    What are the leture hours like?
    Is it mathematical?
    Is it stressful?
    I would appreciate any help.:rolleyes:


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  • #2
    pljudge321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭pljudge321


    You should look at the structural engineering with architecture course if you are interested in both.


  • #3
    Ado86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭Ado86


    ainrialai wrote: »
    Hi,
    Im a Leaving Cert student and had been planning on doing engineerng since the start of the year.
    Now Im interested in doing architecture.
    Does anyone have any info on it.
    What are the leture hours like?
    Is it mathematical?
    Is it stressful?
    I would appreciate any help.:rolleyes:

    Hi,
    Im not doing architecture, but one of my best friends is currently in her fourth year.
    I dont think lectures feature majorly as part of the degree. Its moreso about projects which require a lot of time spent in the studio. My friend could be there from 10 am-10pm five days a week and quite a few all nighters close to deadlines, including working on projects at weekends also.
    From what I gather it is stressful yes.
    Can't really answer any of your other questions though.


  • #4
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    more or less this ^^^^^^

    guidance councillors must be crap, do they not realise that all the modules (of every degree in the uni!) are available to be browsed online on the UCD site?
    and you (all) can see first hand EXACTLY how many hrs of lectures you will be doing a week, a guide to the kind of things you will cover and that sort of thing.

    If you all are this crap at research you are in for a surprise when you get to college :pac:


  • #5
    dixiefly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭dixiefly


    Give the OP a break. The Leaving Cert year is very intense as you probably well know. Depending upon a persons capabilities they could be studying pretty much any free time they have got.

    It is one of the advantages of a forum such as this that you can get people's advice and experiences.


  • #6
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    pljudge321 wrote: »
    You should look at the structural engineering with architecture course if you are interested in both.
    The Structural Engineering &c degree is definitely mathematical - lots of hairy Calculus, and complicated equations for calculating performance of structures. Engineering is not for Mathophobes. :o

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #7
    pljudge321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭pljudge321


    bnt wrote: »
    The Structural Engineering &c degree is definitely mathematical - lots of hairy Calculus, and complicated equations for calculating performance of structures. Engineering is not for Mathophobes. :o

    Preaching to the choir - though admittedly Im in a completely different disclipline to structural though I have heard the maths in structural is easier then some of the stuff mechs & elecs have to deal with.


  • #8
    fillmore jive
    Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭fillmore jive


    A friend of mine is in third year now. From what I hear it's a very demanding course, an awful lot of work outside of your lectures with portfolio and that, but if you're into that stuff you'll have no problem wha?


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