Life of an architecture student

* This is an entry I wrote for our studio's publication.

When we first entered architecture as an innocent first year, many doubts and questions came to our mind. People will ask us, ‘ Why do you choose architecture? ’  some of the answers are ,’ I want to earn more…’ ‘ I love arts and science!’ ‘ I love travelling!’ ‘ I don’t know why!’ During the induction meeting with the lecturers, ‘Welcome to ARCHITORTURE.’ is what we were welcomed with. Since then, our studio has gone through various challenges and events that strengthen our bond day by day. For instance, Festsena, Archustic Architectural Workshop and studio works which required utmost collaboration between every studio members. We also have some memorable studio trips to Johore, Singapore, Bali, Port Dickson and even hiking at the Broga Hill.     

Pulling all nighters in studio can be fun as we  support each others by giving motivation, sharing ideas and keep each others awake with some entertainment. In this studio, you can often hear the laughter from far away. Our high spirit of togetherness, collaboration as well as having fun brought us to who we are today. We see each other grow for the past three years and knows each other well, even some little secrets.

We are always proud to be an architecture student as we lead an undergraduate life which is totally different from others. We learn things from hands-on experience, to name a few, from hand drafting to 3D modeling, from building physical models to woodwork, from artistic design to on-site technical knowledge and from verbal presentation to multimedia presentation. All these cant be found in any textbook. We learn to be more independent, creative, flexible, good in time management and we develop our personality through the process.  

Now that three years have past, some of us are going to continue studies  and some are entering the reality of architecture world as future architects, graphic designers or photographers. Even though we will be separated,  we will still keep ourselves updated in each others life. Instructors weren’t kidding when they said that we will become a family. I hereby would like to express our greatest gratitude to all the lecturers and staff of Architecture Department, UKM who are always be there to support us, guide us to understand more about life and achieve in our academic. Architecture Department of UKM is where we develop ourselves to a better person and where our sweet memories of youth engraved.    

“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.” James Dean

Carpe diem, my friends!