Re#15:
It was reputed in my day that Cornell architects spent most of their waking hours in their studios, and it seems that has not changed.
I don’t know whether it is any different at any other architecture college though.
But for a dissenting view on what goes on there, I give you the comments of @gomestar, the greatest-ever CC Cornell poster, who dated and later married a Cornell architecture major.
I quote him:
“having not read most of the latter posts here, I can say this is only sort of true. My gf is in arch. at Cornell and she’s in the studio substantially less than most people, yet she’s at the top of the class. The difference? She doesn’t socialize while she works, other people are bringing in food, chit chatting, blasting music, planning parties, discussing past parties … everything but studio work. I’m at Rand hall ALOT, and I’ve seen too many all nighters pulled not from an overabundance of work but rather from poor priority selection.”
I can’t say whether I agree or not, because I have no idea.
I do recall an architect from my freshman dorm who went into a pretty social fraternity, he apparently made time for some sort of social life.