Life
usually comes across as a pure definition of stress, it seems like
everything we do or say in this life is putting us under a huge amount
of pressure, everything has to be perfect and flawless, I mean, if you
were anything near a perfectionist type of person , you probably are
having double the amount of anxiety a normal person would have…
Well,
lucky for you, enrolling in architecture school is kind of level one
for preparing you to facing the stress you have to deal with in real
life architecture world, in fact it’s nothing near it, but close enough,
I would say…
Between
coming up finally with a concept which takes ages sometimes, then
creating a 3D model digitally or the old fashioned way, then elevations,
sections, and detailed work…and blah blah, and then when you finally
think you are finished you have to make sure that there are no flaws in
your design and everything was done for a good purpose (functional
designs), and there isn’t any question the jury can throw at you that
you won’t have a reasonable answer or justification for it-which also
takes ages-and at some hopeless point of your design process you might
actually consider changing the whole thing and come up with an idea that
sounds way better for you, so you have to start things over — note: if
you are that type of student, and actually push through with it, then I
pity the day you entered architecture school …it’s just not worth it ,
at all !
Now,
the obvious answer would be to manage your time from the start, from
day one, when you got the assignment, and have had done your work during
the two months allowance -more or less- they provided you to come up
with the project you had to submit.
but, I mean, come on, not everyone can pull that off !
If
you are panicking right now and somehow managed to Google this, here
are my top tips for you to chill out and send the stress monster away
for a while, well at least till your next mental breakdown :
1. Take a deep breath ,
like now, and think that you would rather not submit anything than
submit something half done. so take your time, the world isn’t going to
end just because you are behind by like a *few months O.o??.
2.Coffee, Coffee, Coffee…or
tea, whatever your heart prefers, a coffee/tea break sounds like a good
idea to calm down, and it’s really soothing to go and make yourself a
cup of strong caffeine before you take second look at your project,
which at this point you probably hate and wish you can switch to another
major at this instant.
3.Take a break immediately, *small
nap is okay as long as you trust yourself to actually wake up. This
might sound insane at the moment, but sometime stress could be your
worst enemy, and every decision you make in your design now is going to
be your worst, remember you have to be as calm as possible to make good
decisions.
4.Open up your music folder and listen to any playlist, listening
to music while working is a good idea, it keeps your mind away from
thinking about how much time you wasted doing other things other than
the project you have to submit in a few days, or tomorrow, what ever
situation you have managed to put yourself into.
5.Watch something funny while you are working or before it,
this is a a good idea because it will help you not take your life too
seriously, it is not the end of the world if you don’t submit a good
design by tomorrow, and a little secret from one former architecture
student to another, some of the designs I’ve seen are really not that
awesome to begin with, but the way they are presented are beyond amazing
which helped elevate the project to another level, so even if you
didn’t finish up all the requirements you had to do, you can always
present what you have in a way to convince them that your design is
actually awesome !
6.Haters gonna hate, potatoes gonna potate, never
ever leave room for self-doubt, no one can put you down effectively as
your own self-doubt can, the more you self doubt your decisions, the
worse it gets, just believe that you can do it, and no matter what
people say or do won’t effect what you believe you can do.
7. Stuttering and Jittering are your worst enemies when presenting your work,
so just believing that your project is awesome is enough to keep you
from that, and if they hate it , so be it, because either way you are on
your experimental phase of designing and all the errors you make are
essential parts of your learning curve process.
-Good Luck !
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