Nuke it and Start Over

18/01/2026

First day on SpaceHey, and first blogpost!!

Ok so im in university, and am in my third year as an architecture major, or was because as of last Friday I had withdrawn from all of my courses and am now going into linguistics. I start my new classes tmrw and im actually super excited, I was quite lucky to realize i wanted to change careers a week before course adjustments had closed :D

That might seem like it was an impulsive decision, but i had actually been thinking about it for a while. Tbh i think ive been having doubts about my degree since second year however i didn't have any ideas for what else i would do and i definitely did not want to drop out so i kinda just kept going hoping that something would change. If any of you are or have been an arch major: thoughts and prayers that you get some sleep and that your crits go well. Its a really demanding major (also EXPENSIVE) so if you're not passionate about it, it becomes soul-suckingly dreadful. I was making myself extra exhausted and stressed for no reason at all. It really started affecting me last semester, I was doing the absolute bare minimum as i couldn't be bothered anymore; the reason my grades were decent was because most of my classes were group project oriented so lwk rode on on what my groupmates did (which is very abnormal of me as i normally would worry about whether or not im pulling my own weight). I was also becoming more and more unsure with what i wanted to do after i graduated, none of the career paths seemed interesting anymore (except for maybe interior design?). I could make decent money being an architect, but personally i dont see the point in that if im going to be miserable for the rest of my life. 

There were a lot of courses i took that i really enjoyed, mainly the geo/social studies courses which is funny funny because before uni, socio,geo,history related classes had always been my least favourite classes, but they now i love them! I do not however, love studio. For those of you who dont know studio is essentially a ~8hr/week course where you are given design assignments, and it is the main source of suffering for architecture students around the world (again, thoughts and prayers, pls put down the Monster). It is also quite reflective of what working in that field would be like, and i wasn't having it so finally decided that i had got to get outta here!

So now i'm looking to change my degree to linguistics for either the summer or fall semester, and am just taking a few courses to contribute to that degree for now. I've always had an interest in languages, which yeah did start when i got into anime and vocaloid but i've expanded my horizons a bit. I really like hearing people speak foreign languages, i just think they're neat. I took an introductory course to linguistics last semester as an elective and it was great! Literally the only class i cared about last semester. I also realized that i (kind of?) have passively done linguistic analyses before while watching anime before I even knew what those were lol. Linguistics is really underrated i wish i had heard about it before, could have saved me a couple years, but its about the character development and friends I made while being there (i guess?)! Obviously im not changing schools but it is going to be odd not sharing classes with the same 15-ish people. I do feel bad for leaving my friend to fend for herself in studio but she's the most passionate and intelligent person regarding this major, so i have plenty of faith that she will survive without me. I will be cheering for you on the sidelines.

i'm going to aim to become a speech pathologist, or an ESL teacher. If I can teach my grandma how to use an Applewatch and iPhone, surely i can teach people English.

i'm looking forward to tmrw.