THERE IS ALWAYS A BETTER SIDE TO EVERY STORY.

Even under such chaos and pressure, the happiness of a successful outcome at the end of a submission can compensate for any amount of pain, starvation, or sleepless nights.

No matter how bad or good a jury is, once it's over, a person's mind is more like that of a soldier returning from war. You are either a martyr for a failed but well-attempted design or a hero for a successful one. All of this necessitates an evening of food and drink, as well as the all-important sleep that we architects regard as more valuable than money.

When you see the structure come to life, the models for which we put our hands together become a source of immense joy. What a pair of hands, some material, and glue can accomplish is sometimes pure genius.

The all-nighters turn out to be more of a bonding session among fellow students, where everyone gets together, drinks coffee, and laughs over all the latest gossip on campus, discusses the future, current events, basically everything except architecture, because who needs more of that, right?

THE DAILY RULE

The life of an architecture student is undoubtedly the most chaotic, from the infamous all-nighters to the near-impossible submissions to the ever-so-taxing model making where one ends up sticking his or her own hands together more frequently than the model itself. We no longer have any fingerprints. And, of course, the numerous cups of coffee consumed, where caffeine itself ceases to exert its effects at some point.

Here is a list of some of the issues that architects face.

Working every day, every minute.

When your friends complain about having to sleep for only 7 hours and you have an entire night ahead of you, not to mention a whole lot of coffee

The agony you feel when your perfectly drafted design sheets are sketched on by a professor.

When you realise that software is no longer enjoyable because you can't find the computer mouse.

When the professors are unsure of what they want from the design project.

The list goes on........

The most important aspect of an architect's life is his or her design work, which he or she strives for 24 hours a day, seven days a week.