New Year’s Goal

I know this is a lit­tle late, but Happy New Year! 2009 was not the best year for many and I am hope­ful that 2010 is going to be a great year. So look out for great things! I am not one for mak­ing a res­o­lu­tion for the New Year, but I have set a major goal for this year. This year I will finally com­plete the Archi­tect Reg­is­tra­tion Exam. Not only will I be happy about this accom­plish­ment, but I know my fam­ily, my boss and friends will also all be equally as happy.

To keep myself in line and focused this time around I am going to adopt the same train of thought as I did dur­ing archi­tec­ture school. Dur­ing the gru­el­ing days of archi­tec­ture school I had to bal­ance school and my stud­ies on one hand and fit my job, social life, eat­ing and sleep­ing in the other hand. School and the work asso­ci­ated with it took prece­dence over every­thing includ­ing sleep­ing. I’ve been out of school for nearly eight years and life has kept me focused on other things instead of accom­plish­ing the exams. While I don’t plan to lock myself in my office and be a com­plete shut in or go days with­out sleep­ing, I do plan to study as much as I pos­si­bly can. Know­ing that on occa­sions I will have to sac­ri­fice a fun night out or an evening of watch­ing TV to study. My plan is to take an exam every four weeks (or sooner), with my first exam being at the end of this month. I had started (re)studying Con­struc­tion Doc­u­ments and Ser­vices months ago so that will be my first one.

Here is the order to my suc­cess:
CDS — Con­struc­tion Docs and Ser­vices
PPP — Pro­gram­ming Plan­ning and Prac­tice
SPD — Site Plan­ning and Design
SD — Schematic Design
SS — Struc­tural Sys­tems
BS — Build­ing Sys­tems
BDCS — Build­ing Design and Con­struc­tion Systems

12. January 2010 by jmr_arch
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