It's going to take me 8 years to get a 5-year degree.

[SmileyBoy]

A Bachelor's of Architecture.

I snipped my credit load today from 15 to 12. This forces me to take two years of pre-architecture, rather than one, then a five-year span in the architecture program, plus an extra year for classes I trimmed from each semester. I would not be able to handle 5 classes at 3 credits a pop, because of the workload. I can get better grades if I don't have much of a load of work for me. 12 credits is the minimum for full-time student status, and I don't want to fall below that. Also I'm a transfer junior, not a freshman. So that means a total of 10 and a half years of college. *shudder*

So, I'll be graduating with a Bachelor's of Architecture in the spring of 2011. I think I have to throw up now.:puke:

[E_Zapata]

1. Just hit it, dude!

A lot changes as you move through the program. You *will* find a way to accelerate it as time goes on. Trust me. When the barn gets closer, you will find a way to make it happen faster.

[Misinformed01]

2. So what?

You are going to be 8 years older anyway...with or without the degree you want.

[dofus]

3. Is taking a class or two in the summer

a possibility?

I'm a perpetual student myself, and too often I see young people taking too heavy a courseload considering they're also working full time. Invariably they wind up dropping a course late in the semester, or even failing a class or two. Better do it your way. As already pointed out, you'll be eight years older by 2011 anyway.