SANTOS STUDIOS

One of the most frequent questions I get as an architecture student at the University of San Diego is: “Wait, if the program isn't NAAB-accredited, can you actually become an architect?” The short answer: Yes. The long answer: It’s all about the "4+3" strategy or the "California Path."

As a first-generation college student, “research” always sounded like something really serious students did. You know, a "professional student". They somehow already knew what office hours were and what working in a "lab" meant before college. Students whose parents casually used phrases like “graduate school” at the dinner table. Students who didn’t need to Google what IS a literature review?