Wow... as an architecture student I can safely say fuck you. Repeatedly.

I have no idea where you got your (bias and misinformed) perception of us as an art school, but hopefully I can clear some things up.

• We take timber and steel building construction courses starting in first year, as well as taking the HRAI exam in HVAC class and becoming certified in second year.

• We enter competitions in those courses starting in first year. These require exploded axos, detailed sections, and often we are required to submit the r value calculations to our profs afterward

• We learn and start working in AutoCAD and Revit in first year so we don't go into our first co-op with only advanced math courses and theory knowledge

• We typically work between 60-80 hours a week and over 100 if there is a studio deadline (which requires plans, sections, elevations, renders, construction details, diagrams, a site model, a building model, and whatever else our sadistic professors ask of us. All based on a project which we have had to design ourselves.)

• We have licensed engineers in our program (iron ring and all) who say they work more hours in architecture school than they had to as a student of engineering

• If you are in a co-op program, you will have 24 months of experience working in architectural and engineering offices, which should help significantly in your job search (because yes, it is a tough market out there)

My favourite quote describing the relationship between architects and engineers is "Architects need to know something about everything, while engineers need to know everything about something".

I have no quarrel with engineers - you guys as a whole are fantastic, and civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering are badass fields. I have a close friend in all but electrical.

92RS however - perhaps this is just the studio deadline I have in three days talking, but I hope you die slowly and painfully you ignorant son of a bitch.