<p>Hello,
I am a 15 year old Freshman and I’m wondering what people think about what I should go into. I know it might seem early for me to think about it now, but I want to be able to have time to change my mind and already have some knowledge of where to go. </p>
<p>Well, anyways, I am interested in 4 things at the moment. Mainly I’m leaning towards architecture, hence, my post is in the architecture section. I really enjoy music. I think I could maybe be considered kind of advanced for my age. This, I was thinking of having as a minor or undergrad. I also am very interested in visual arts, such as painting, sculpting, and 3D animation. Game design would be probably last on my list but I still am very interested in it and have designed a few 2D rpgs. </p>
<p>The reason I am posting here, I am not sure if it’s the right place, is so that I can get opinions of what you think I should do. I can draw pretty well I guess, and do so regularly. I take part in many extracurricular musical activities. And I am learning blender right now and have not finished making my first real model. I can show any of my architectural drawings, 3D models, or other drawings if you like. Also for an example of my skill level in music, I performed the Carnival of Venice, variations 1, 2, and 3 last year, and am performing the Goedicke concert etude in B flat this year.</p>
<p>Thank you for taking the time to read this. =)</p>
<p>Well, I think you should get a better idea of what to pursue by investigating the fields of everything your interested in, and as a freshman you have the time to do this.</p>
<p>But when you do get to the stage of choosing a major for college: you should chose the discipline that interests you most and,</p>
<p>if your terrible at it-- you should do it anyway because you will get better.
if your mildly ok at it— you should do it for the exact same reason as above.
and if your incredible at it— you should do it because you want to do it and not because your incredible.</p>
<p>I ended up in architecture because I was good at math and art, but didn’t really have the confidence or creativity to be a fine artist. (If I had it to do again, I might look into illustration.) To be a good architect you should also have reasonably good people skills. You or someone in your firm will have to talk to clients to get and keep jobs, you have to deal with contractors. I like the combination of desk work and field work. As a sole practitioner, I like having many different hats.</p>
<p>Today I’m going to mock up some photomontages of a proposed awning, finish up working drawings of a kitchen addition, drive to the local building department to file some plans of a retaining wall, meet with a contractor who is trying to get a couple of job proposals together and I’ll probably avoid doing my estimated taxes for another day. Sound like fun?</p>
<p>As a high school student what you should do is:
Take 4 years of math (preferably to Calculus), 4 years of English, 3 years of social studies, at least 3 years of language, at least 3 years of science and perhaps AP Physics, do some visual arts electives. Keep up with the music, you may yet prefer to go in that direction. Don’t burn any bridges now. Take the most advanced courses you can comfortably handle.</p>
<p>As Tzar advised, continue to explore your interests while doing what mathmom said, taking a variety of the most rigorous courses that you can do well in, and you’ll soon figure out where to go.</p>
<p>sorry I wasn’t able to respond right away, it’s midterm week and I’ve been studying a lot so I haven’t had time to do much else.</p>
<p>right now I’m taking Honors Geometry so I will be able to take calculus my senior year.</p>
<p>I am also in all other honors classes and some of them seem to be a little bit much but this is my second year of foreign languages (French) and I’m doing okay in it.</p>
<p>right now I would prefer doing design sketches and more artsy things with architecture</p>
<p>on my free time I do draw architectural designs and I’m getting pretty good at it I think except that my handwriting is pretty messy so it’s sometimes hard to re-read any ideas I wrote on them. I also make 3D models with Blender, a free 3d modeling software, and draw activity drawings such as someone playing soccer and I’m working a lot on anatomy right now.</p>
<p>Right on, trumpet playing! Goedicke is such a fun piece to play! That, and the Arutunian concerto. My personal suggestion, you should def. check out UCLA’s Design Media Arts program. Or at least do DMA’s summer design program. That, and UCLA has an awesome music AND arch. program!</p>