I bet none of you took more than 9 years to get your BACHELORS DEGREE.

[SmileyBoy]

Because that's how many years total of college I'm looking at before I get a stinkin' Bachelors of Fine Arts (BFA).

Estimated graduation date: Third week of December in 2009. At the age of 27.

I'm from the HS class of 2001, and I'm still a looong ways away from getting a freakin' UNDERGRAD. All my high school friends have normal careers now, and I'm still stuck on campus.

I've been taking college classes EVERY SINGLE available semester straight since January of 2001.

God, I should've realised that architecture wasn't the thing for me a long time ago...

:cry:

[crim son]

1. Architecture is a long program

and you have to be unusually gifted to get through it. I admire the fact that you are working dilligently toward a long-term goal.

[SmileyBoy]

3. I've dropped out of architecture.

I'm currently working for a Bachelors of Fine Arts with an emphasis on Digital Media.

I have learned in the past two months that architecture BLOWS NUT CHUNKS.

[crim son]

4. LMAO!

There you go! I dated a couple of guys doing the Harvard program. They were both absolutely obsessed! One guy bored me to tears. We'd be eating breakfast and he'd say, "Do you know what John Hejduk eats for breakfast?" :snore: Your new major makes you sound infinitely more interesting :)

[SmileyBoy]

6. Yeah, I've noticed the architecture students aren't my "kind" of people.

Real overachievers. I bet all of them had GPA's of 3.9 or higher in high school. They have no idea what it's like to experience failure or extreme frustration in life.

I've met some of the art students at me school. They're TOTALLY MY PEOPLE.:D

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. Nope. 7.

[KamaAina]

11. "Seven years of college down the drain!"

[windlight]

5. Well....

I finished HS in May of 1990.. finished my BS in Computer Science (after a few detours in other majors) in Dec of 1999. the best thing i can tell people after that is i finished the CS part in 2 years flat. (with 4 out of 5 classes taken at a time being CS)

[SmileyBoy]

7. I have all my Gen Eds and electives done.

It's the studio classes and required classes I need. 28 of them, to be precise.

[evlbstrd]

8. I took nine years for a BFA.

But I count the five years in the military before school.

[huskerlaw]

9. I was in college for 9 years.

But then again, I have 3 degrees...

Don't be hard on yourself though. Being in school that long is far better than being stuck in an occupation you don't like. At least you realized you had the wrong major before you'd spent 5 years suffering at a job you hated.

[SmileyBoy]

10. Oh yes, believe me, I would've HATED being an architect.

Hell, I couldn't even take one more semester as an architecture STUDENT.

[mzteris]

12. I did the 25 year plan. . .

May 74 - Dec 75, then part-time in '77.

A lllllloooooong break - and return in Jan of 2000 - part time until May 2002! Woo baby! Then I graduamacated.