My name is Erica Johnson I am a High School senior. My school offers a program called W.I.S.E. in which you can take a half a year of regular English than instead of continuing with that go off and pick a topic in which you are interested in and find it worth persuing further interest. I want to become an Architect. I honestly didn't know much about the requirements are and what it takes to be one so this is my research on how to get the best options for becoming an Architect in this modern job world.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Journal 11 (Feb 19th)

I went to visit Philadelphia University about a major in Architectural Studies. The campus was beautiful. We had a 5th year Architecture major as our tour guide she was very nice. She showed us the studio Philadelphia University has 2 studios one for upperclassmen and another for underclassmen. The studios were very cool. There was a lot of desks apparently we would spend the first 2 years of that major just focusing on hand drawings and working with making models. Philadelphia University's program works on trying to incorporate different majors all together to perform jobs. Like the interior design majors would helps design architecture majors’ different things and the construction management major help with the architecture majors and all different ways of adding everything together to have final projects. They said that they trying to simulate a work environment.
I have been teaching AutoCAD dealing for the past year and have taken the class for 3 years. They guide told us though that we really don't deal with AutoCAD until out 3rd and 4th year which kind of is a disappointment because I have so much skill with the program and I'm afraid to use it. Another thing our guide said was key was being friends with upperclassmen they apparently leave you materials when they are done, could give you books and programs and all sorts of different materials.

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