It is said that Hanyi Wish is particularly smart, at the beginning of this year I got an offer from AA and Edinburgh to make a wish UCL, and now more than two months later, I really came ashore from the UCL fish pond!
UCL, like a "scumbag"
UCL has been my first choice since I was preparing to study abroad in my senior year. For more than a year, I was like a tireless suitor, going to Instagram and the official website every day to see the latest developments of UCL, including, the more I looked at it, the more I felt that this school was what I dreamed of.
However, UCL hanged me for more than five months, during which he sent several emails saying that there were too many applicants to give the results immediately, and he lived like a scumbag who raised fish.
Speaking of which, my portfolio was all closed at the beginning of December last year, and the schools that applied for it were all about the same, only UCL, and waited for two months for its work to be uploaded. I didn't dare to hang out during those two months, and with the help of the main band teacher and Mia teacher, I made some adjustments and added some content, and now I still have various different versions in my folder (of course, the final version was voted for UCL).
Relax at the party after submitting the first round of applications
The UCL is not worrying about the process of waiting for the offer, every time I feel that there is no drama, it will send an email saying "Oh, the portfolio is too much to see, you wait", so I can only continue to wait.
I applied for two majors, AD (Architectural Design) and DFPI (Performance and Interaction Design), in my own vision AD is more difficult to apply, the result is that before the AD came out DFPI rejected me, at that time I thought about it, this is even more useless.
Unexpectedly, one day in early April, the chinese art clerical teacher suddenly told me that UCL had sent a letter of recommendation, which said. When I heard this news, I was so excited that I didn't sleep well all night, and after the joy, I began to panic, afraid of what would happen.
So far, the students who applied for UCL with me have not received the results, and the ddl of the UCL side that submitted the language score is June 24, and if the language score is not submitted at the beginning, it can only be submitted after getting the offer, and the time can be said to be very tight. So everyone.
Self-discipline is important
Originally, I was going to take the IELTS test, but the three or four games were canceled, so after submitting the UCL, I quickly changed the TOEFL, fortunately, I prepared early and got the results at the beginning of the year.
Because I graduated last year, I basically taught myself at home this year, in addition to participating in an offline summer camp, classes with Chinese arts teachers were also online.
I think it's a test of a person's self-consciousness, because. To combat procrastination, I gave myself a very detailed schedule of time.
Time schedule
But I wouldn't set the time so dead. Presumably, everyone has experience, and in the end, most of the results are to postpone and then postpone and then fail. My approach is to set up 1-2 days of maneuvering days every week, and if the tasks of a certain day are not completed, they will be set aside for maneuvering days.
There is also a very effective way, so that I will have to solve the problem of this lesson before the next class, which is equivalent to setting up a ddl for myself.
In the year of Chinese art learning, I basically chased after the teacher to make an appointment, did not let myself have a free window, thank you teachers never bothered me hahaha.
Feed the teacher and me
Then there's the idea that I want to stick to one thing for a long time.
I studied environmental design at Jiangnan University as an undergraduate, and at that time I had the opportunity to study at the university and also had the option of working directly after graduation. Although it is very tiring to make a portfolio, I enjoy it myself and do not feel how difficult it is to stick to it.
The atmosphere of the Faculty of Architecture is great
And although I take classes at home, I don't do projects on a single machine. After coming to Hanyi, I met a lot of students who applied for a British architecture major together, and I also made a lot of good friends.
I found that everyone in the architecture major brings their own roll king buff, and I myself belong to it. In those months of catching up, I often worked on projects at home all night, and sometimes my parents got up in the morning and saw me making models in the living room and asked me, but in fact I hadn't slept at all...
Later, I found that not only did I fight like this, but also other students studying architecture in the group, especially DDL's days, almost every day someone met to stay up late.
Again, there is a reward for paying. And after getting the offer, no one is completely lying flat to play, but they are still learning. I myself am studying software during this time, I will find some excellent cases to try to model, as far as I know, other students learn languages, learn professional courses, and do not let themselves be idle.
The most exaggerated thing is that everyone sometimes chats about idle days and suddenly throws a link out: "You see this plan blablabla", . In our group, too, the learning exchange did not end with the end of the application season, and now everyone will often share cases and discuss together.
Recent chat files
Recently, UCL offers have come down one after another, and we have pulled up 22 UCL master's students, as can be expected, it is.
Of course, it is not to say that it advocates staying up late or rolling up or something, we often see some architectural professional persuasion techniques, saying that learning architecture is tired and irregular. I think the key is to look at what we think, just like we think, whether we love this profession and this industry is more important than whether it is easy or not, because the sense of accomplishment of making a project can offset all the fatigue and anxiety before.
It's a big deal to eat hot pot when you're tired of learning, as a Sichuanese. This year, I have not met with everyone online learning, and I hope that after I go to London, I can have the opportunity to have a hot pot together
Looking forward to seeing you all!
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