<p>-I am going into my Junior year of high school.
-4.0 GPA
-My strengths are in history, Geometry, and art.
-I am distracted very easily
-I am Organized
-Very few know what I really think.
-I am not one for large parties; I prefer a quiet evening with just a few good friends
-I give problems considerable thought in order to find solutions
-I enjoy starting something new - I quickly become bored with old projects.
-I am always searching for new ideas and improvement possibilities.
-I try not to hurt others with my words.
-I am rather sensitive and am quickly hurt.
-I prefer to plan everything in advance.
-I am normally punctual and reliable - I do not like it when others are unpunctual.<br>
(okay, that was mostly just a personality test)</p>
<p>There is only one problem I am always worried about: I don’t know what I want my future career to be.
I know this isn’t much to go on, but any suggestions would be helpful and hopefully open my mind to many possibilities in the future.</p>
<p>Watch as many [url=<a href=“http://www.ted.com%5DTED%5B/url”>http://www.ted.com]TED[/url</a>] videos as possible (you’ll find a wide range of topics in the social sciences, hard sciences, art/design, and more) to get a sense of all the options that are open to you.</p>
<p>As I look around at the architects that I know and work with, the following characteristics you list are pretty typical (bright, curious, somewhat introverted);</p>
<p>-4.0 GPA
-My strengths are in history, Geometry, and art.
-I am distracted very easily
-I am Organized
-Very few know what I really think.
-I am not one for large parties; I prefer a quiet evening with just a few good friends
-I give problems considerable thought in order to find solutions
-I enjoy starting something new - I quickly become bored with old projects.
-I am always searching for new ideas and improvement possibilities. </p>
<p>The following characteristics are not as typical, because being thick skinned and opinionated is a good survival characteristic for architecture school;</p>
<p>-I try not to hurt others with my words.
-I am rather sensitive and am quickly hurt.</p>
<p>My suggestion is to try to attend a summer architecture program. I think that is going to give you a very quick answer as to whether architecture is something you are going to enjoy.</p>