I finished Architecture

And in the strange year 2020, just like every year, a new class of students graduated from the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism. After two years of specific preparation for admission, followed by another six years of study, these young people step into professional life accompanied by a diploma. However, what value does this diploma have in the context of the high rate of university inflation in recent years, at a time when in Romania there have been, and still are, diploma mills operating, producing diplomas that are easily obtained with minimal effort and even minimal attendance?

I will try to answer this question by going back to the moment when the preparation for the entrance exam begins, a moment that tests the student's desire to become an architect. Typically, preparing for Architecture means going at least twice a week, often on weekends, to 5-6 hour long sessions where you learn to draw in space and understand the principles of descriptive geometry. After six hours of sitting in a chair and drawing on a drawing board, in the dark in the evening, you leave exhausted and head home. On the street you see young people, happy, rested and full of energy, heading for the disco. You would stop nowhere else and look for the shortest route to your own bed, where you can even throw your clothes on. Because you know that, apart from your high school classes and preparing for your BAC subjects, you have to draw at least 4 hours a day to finish your homework for your drawing tutoring.