Postgraduate Courses: Study after I finish studying… uff

I don’t wanna think in more studying at the moment, but that’s because I’m exhausted about all of the projects, classes and stuff that I’ve been doing this first year of university, not because I don’t wanna do a postgraduate course. In fact, I do want to do one, but I don’t know in what subject specifically… It could be arts, history of arts, urbanism, sociology, anthropology, there are so much things to study!

Well, at least all of my interests are, in some point, near between each other; there are all related with arts and social science. And all of them will help me to improve my skills as an architect.

Now, at this precise moment, I think I would go for the arts course. Arts was always my second career option, and I would love to do some courses or something like that after I finish with architecture (If this career wasn’t so exhausting, I would do parallel careers with arts… but that’s not humanly possible). I think I would like to go with sculpture, it’s a subject that has always fascinated me. It might be because of the use of the space, the importance of the full and the empty, the textures… but more important than that; the level of expressionism of the technique. I really want to study some of that!

But, back to the subject; yes, I want to do a postgraduate course. Where? I think I would like to do it in Spain or France maybe, or another country that haves that amount of fine arts cultural weight. And well, I would love to live on this places too, it’s not only because the course.

But I think I will wait until I finish University to start thinking on more studying.

What to do?

I don’t know what I want to do in the future, I guess it would be related to architecture, design or art, but what? I don’t know. A year ago, I would have said that I was going to work with another architects in a little office, designing houses and stuff like that, but when I entered to the career, I realize that there are many things you can do studying architecture! And I can’t decide what would be the line I will follow.

I have been thinking a lot in urbanism; the design of the city for the people and their healthy development, giving order to it, making it sustainable, creating spaces where the people join and lives in community... It’s a very interesting area. But what about the design of houses and buildings? That would be an interesting area too, and there I can release all my creativity, and I would love to create things, things that would change people’s lifestyles (for good of course).

Well, I have like 5 more years to think about it, and if it’s something I know, it’s that I will work in something creative, because I think that’s the thing that moves my mind. And other thing that I take for sure, is the fact that I don’t want to give classes… I would be terrible!

Uff, workshop is killing me this semester! This week has been horrible; I have been studying a lot for my tests, and the workshop professor keep sending work and work to do, and my body can't take that much of stress! I have been sleeping like 3 or 4 hours a day, so I look like a zombie all day, and going to classes that way is not so useful, because my mind hardly records like a 10% of the information given by the professor. I’m falling sleep everywhere I go! In my kitchen, in the library, in workshop’s classroom… the other day I fell sleep in the subway, and I get to San Pablo! (that is like 15 stations after the one I was going). I need vacations.

Well, I can’t complain… I knew what was expecting me when I decided to study architecture. All of my friends and family told me that I wouldn’t have any time for the first 2 or 3 year of the career. My friends even did me a farewell party the last day of vacations (I hope it was a joke). And well, I like the career, a lot, and it worth all of the suffering (but please, give me some days off or something, my brain needs it).