From me, to architecture student, to architect, and back...

With time passing by i have come to realice the huge amount of skills that an architectect require and after that i realice that most of the skills that i have learn for surviving to this career, are only for the studing of architecture, and not necesarly for practicing architecture itself.
A person that study architecture needs perceverance, creativity, huge amounts of determination for not giving up everything every week, needs to be able of talking to somebody for explaining his idea and if necesary, be able to defend it against other arguments, but also needs flexibility when tries to integrate new variables in this idea, needs to learn to administrate his money, knows the limits of endurance that his body has when speaking of sleeping time, knows the kind of thing that needs to eat for saving time and last longer awake and healthy, the hability to put in pause a proyect while working in another and realice in that moment that doing this you always get new ideas for the first one, and finally (but not less important, and i have probably forgot a few) need to know how to relax, choose days to say for real "today i'm not doing anything", leave a few day in the mont to see your family and friends, this is fundamental for not going nuts.In the other hand, the skills that an architect need are for me two basic one, or divide in two big groups, first and architect needs enthusiasm for his work, feel pasion for the work that is doing; and second, an architect, specially one of The University of Chile most be ethic, when a doctor in a hospital made a mistake can ruin or even terminate someones life, if an architect made a mistake, can ruin or also terminate a big number of people's life, we most always consider that somebody is spending a lot of time and money in building this, and someday someone else will spend even more money to live in it, and our work is to make proyects that make spending this money on it worth it