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Field Notes Response

Architecture students spend a great deal of time together. Their studio class is a 4 hour class in which they do projects. Because they sped so much time there they are a very close group of people and learn to help each other with projects. Some of these project might be done 4 or even 5 times before a final is complete. The professors have a very close relationship with the students as well. They critique projects over and over before a final is due to help the student understand aspects of the project and to help them make a better grade. These students are very hardworking and seem to posses the same basic qualities. They all are creative and intelligent people that question the composition of everything and seem to think in a way unique to there major study. Their other classes seem to have the same feel as studio, small groups despite the fact they may have 70 students. Students are encouraged to participate and sometimes forced into it, this gives the professor a relationship as that found in studio.

where n what on research

bsu.edu - landscape architecture, CAP

google.com - landscape architecture colleges, accredited schools of architecture, top landscape architecture schools, landscape architecture

Q's

1. What service projects do you do.
2. What are the credentials to be a member the program.
3. Whats the highlight of your year.
4. Is there any perks to being a part of this program.
5. What kind of projects do you work on in studio.
6. Are there any main design processes that this program focuses on.
7. How accredited are the professors.
8. How prepared are the students once they have completed this program for the job world.
9. How accredited is this program nationally.
10. What could you do to increase this accreditation.

week 3

I will be doing a great deal of my research in the architecture buildings since my subculture has to do with landscape architecture. Most people on campus say just about the same thing when they here architecture student, crazy and sleep deprived. People on campus know of the architect majors as the people that are never sleep and never quit working, or the smart people on campus that never leave the class room. I am in the CAP program I have not declared which major in this field I want to pursue, however I can tell you that they are not that far off on a few of these things. I do not have much experience with "la's" as they are called, landscape architects, but I can assume that they are just like the rest of us, overworked. CAP students, college of architecture and planning, are almost always working on projects for studio on top of all other school work therefore it could be said that we never leave the class room because if you go to a studio at 2 in the morning on almost any given night there will probably be someone in there working on a project.

test results

Over all I do agree with how my test turned out. I thought that there were a few of the scenarios that I prefer things from both spectrum's but that the overall conclusion was probably close. I do not think that the test is a "you are defiantly this or that", but more of a "you tend to be this."

test

ESTJ

Week 2

When I start to pick my subculture for this semester there are a few thing that I look for. One of the most important things that I look for is am I interested in it. If it is not something that I might find myself doing or joining one day, or something that just really fascinates me then I will not enjoy it and therefore will not want to work on it. I frankly do not care to learn anything about something that I do not like or find interesting, but if it is something that I like and will find I can eventually use then I am all for exploring and learning everything there is to know about it. The point of learning and doing this project is to learn about other people that are not like me, however that is the group I want to learn most about. I believe that in order to learn about others you must first learn about urself, therefore my goal in this to learn more about myself so I can learn about others.

box 11

When I think of the Design Build Experience, I have a few preconceived thoughts. One thought is about the type of people that would be on this team or in this group. Being through the architecture college, you some people would think of this group being a bunch of nerdy students with no life, however I am in the architecture program, although not part of this group and did not even know that it existed, i could tell you that my thought are alot different form other peoples. I first think of a general team or group being mostly second or third year student and not having much to do with upper class men or graduate students. They probably are not the normal "nerds" that everyone thinks of but are non the less the type that would have glasses and most likely not sports enthusiasts. Although this probably is not true when thinking of a group such as this I think of the people that win the science fair and are the big school people, in all the clubs and have no social life other then the activities they experience through it.
Although i say this about them, it very much sounds like something that i would be interested in. I was not into science fair or any school clubs other then sports in high school so I already have completely destroyed my first preconceived notions about this group. I love to design and build things and love to plan them out, hence why i am in the architecture program. It is extremely weird how we look at a situation and say "man I wish I was in that" but yet the people that are in it are the people that we do not want to be associated with.

everyday

The alarm clock goes off, i slam my hand down on the snooze button and go back to sleep. Five minuetes later this simple step is repeated. Then I wake up 15 minuetes later and think that I am late, so I jump up grab my stuff and go get ready. I come back 20 minuetes later to look down at the clock and realize that I set it 15 minuetes early and now I sit down and try to stay awake for another 20 minuetes before I go to class. I go to the CAP building and stay there all day, 8 in the morning till 9 that night. I draw and sketch, think and plan, and repeat. I come back to the room at 9:30 and do a bit of homework then watch a movie and hangout a little to have some fun, then I go to bed around 1 in the morning just to wake up the next day and do it all over again. Some will wonder why, others say I'm crazy, all I have to say is that I'm a Ball State architecture student.

sub culture study list

American Society of Landscape Architects

Student Planning Association

Indiana Outdoors

Interior Design Alliance

Design Build Experience

Tennis Club

Box 1

Baseball Club at BSU

• athletic
• usually on a field or open space
• very sarcastic and love to taunt others
• superstitious
• love to be around other people that know and love the game

Architecture

• determined
• creative
• always in studio
• very particular and nit picky about certain things. ie projects
• very close with each other, almost like family
• sleep deprived, overworked, and very fun

BSU Student

• always looking to party
• hate to walk but do it anyways
• love football and hot dogs
• used to the wind
• poor, or very low on cash
• loves free stuff and will do anything to get it despite how cheap or useless
• the nest

The people in the architecture department, or archies are known for there devotion. Always in studio the architecture building has become to be known as the bat cave where all the archies live. Although we do spend quit a bit of time in studio we do not live there and only the people that procrastinate are the ones constantly pulling the all nighters. Be a program of such high caliber as Ball State's, the students here are very hard working and loyal. Since we are all always working on projects very diligently, we get to know each other very well eventually getting to the point where class mates turn into family in which not seeing almost seems like a crime. Being college students we all are poor, or very low on money, so we learn to be creative not only in our work but in the materials we use to do the work. After awhile professors perfection expectations get to us so we do projects over and over meaning we need a lot of cheap material so we get even more creative and share ideas making us all even closer. In the end after all the projects are done and we are all sleep deprived and laughing from stupid jokes that are only funny because of the amount of sleep we've had, we have made tons of friends and had the best times of our lives, besides who else can say they hangout in the bat cave

sub cultures

Current:
Baseball Club
Architecture
BSU Student
Broke College Student

Past:
4H
FFA
Basketball
Baseball
Tennis
Band