8 Types Of Architecture Students You’ll Find At Lebanese Universities
You know who you are.
1. The rich kid.
She’s usually a student at LAU, and she’ll come into class with her designer purse and speaking loudly on the phone in French-Arabic. She has a carpenter on speed dial for her Foundation Year projects, and then she’ll upgrade to the big leagues where her projects will cost her around $500, but that’s fine because Daddy wants his daughter to be an architect.
2. The lazy self-proclaimed artist.
He smells of cigarettes and hasn’t changed his socks since last Monday. He will loudly argue in conversations, will try to impose his ideas (and steal some) on everyone, when in reality he hasn’t passed a course since second year.
3. The duo.
They’re the creepy best friends. They do their projects together, they sit together, they pass together, and they fail together.
4. The kiss-ass.
The most hated person in the room (after #2 of course). He finishes his projects before their due dates, and you’ll find him sitting with the professor long after the class is over, discussing his architectural “inspirations” and “ambitions”. Bro, why don’t you cool it down a little.
5. The obnoxious girl who think she’s a rebel.
This girl is always fighting with her professors because they don’t “understand her art direction”, she questions everything anyone has to say, and it gets very annoying. She has weird colored hair, and piercings all over, normally no one would care about the way she looks, but because she’s extremely rude it makes us hate you all the more. (Note: I’m thinking of a specific person).
6. The cool group.
They come in groups of 4-6, they’re usually friends with Business major students more than people from the Arts department. They don’t interact much with the rest of the class, except when they need help with something.
7. The one who’s never there.
They only appear on jury day, other than that you have no idea who they are.
8. Son/daughter of an architect.
This kid obviously doesn’t want to be here, he/she hates the major, everything it represents, and everyone in it. But because here in Lebanon we have a thing where your profession, by law, has to be identical to your dad’s or mom’s, this person will be stuck in 4-hour design classes until the end of time.
main image via lau.edu.lb
