Always learning - a good thing

Along with my research into schools to transfer into upon release, I am also reading up on the major that I want to study - architecture - to make sure that it's really what I want to do. One of my goals is a career that allows me to create beautiful, useful things using my creative and mathematical talents in tandem. From what I've read so far, architecture fits that goal well with an aim to create functional buildings that please the senses.

I read a book from the unit library that was a very brief overview of architecture, but it had at the back a list of books for further reading. Not knowing how those books compare, I sent the list home in a letter and asked if someone could look into them to see which were worthwhile. As an extraordinary blessing, my mom ordered some of them as an early birthday present.

Over the past few weeks I've been going through them fairly seriously, taking notes as I read so I retain more, and have a reference to look back on down the road. So far, it's been mostly basics and how to consider existing architecture with a critical mindset, but from flipping through the other books, I think I will get a decent foundation of knowledge. In any case, I'm learning - and that's a good thing.