Post 2: Why did I choose my major?

When I was a child, I used to draw very often and the memory of myself drawing the layout of my dream house when I was about 8 years old is clear yet: a house with five rooms and a huge kitchen. So, I guess that want to be an architect was on me since then. 

However, by my teen years I had been thinking that I had no talent for it so being a geologist turned into the only option until I was 16 years old. After that age, for some reason I convinced myself that studying civil engineering was the best for me because my math scores and I entered to study it (spoiler: it wasn't).

Finally, I decided to choose my dream job overall and I left the career that I hated from the day one. Now I'm studying architecture and despite the tiredness and stress I love it, definitely was a good decision. I made incredible friends, I've learned a lot and I've been know many professionals that I admire now. What I miss the most of the face-to-face classes is being with my partners in the "pircas" every afternoon and see this:




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  1. Antonia Zúñiga28 de abril de 2021 a las 18:01

    Hi Arly, I'm very happy that you're studying what you have always wanted. I wish you the best in your studies<3
    Nice photo, I hope to be there one day when everything returns to normal.

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  2. Antonia Durán28 de abril de 2021 a las 18:43

    Hi Arly, I'm happy that you finally decided what you wanted, I'm studying architecture too, I like to see more people who loves their major as I do, despite all the stress we know is a beautiful major and at the end, all the dedication is woth it :)

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  3. Karen Garrido28 de abril de 2021 a las 19:34

    Hi Arly, I am also an architecture student and just like yo used to build the house of my dreams when I was a child, how good you realized that engineering is not your thing and you are studing a career that you really like and that later you will be love exercising.

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  4. Fernanda Ovalle28 de abril de 2021 a las 21:25

    Hello Arly, the same thing happened to me to, I thought I hadn´t talent for architecture, but I am already in my third year and I think it was the best decision I made. PS: I hope you do your home project.

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  5. Renata Miranda29 de abril de 2021 a las 11:19

    Hi Arly! How great that now I am studying what you like. I hope that these years go great for you and that we will soon see each other in the corridors of the FAU.

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  6. Anais Burgos29 de abril de 2021 a las 14:27

    Hello arly, my congratulations! It's amazing you're studying what you always dreamed of child.
    Wow, fau is very beautiful, I hope that the pandemic ends soon ☹

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  7. Valeria Gutiérrez C.29 de abril de 2021 a las 18:14

    Hi Arly, it's nice that you got to study something you really love, I hope to know the "pircas" some day, the FAU is very pretty, it has its charm. <3

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