Architecture School

The speaker begins by describing her graduation when she was one of only two students who submitted printed 1 Her age was a problem in that while she was 18, the 2 beginning age was 23. Another feature that disturbed the speaker was how serious everyone was, and there wasn't an inkling of self 3 She describes the location of the architectural school as being next to the royal 4 The school's location was another disturbing feature, because of how the departments were distributed, which the speaker describes as being very 5 This led to the fact that people found it difficult to meet each other and there was very little 6 between departments. The educational philosophy was also a problem for the speaker because going to the library was frowned upon, and the idea that you needed to be 7 was emphasised. The speaker describes the fact that, with a friend, having come from a book 8 education, this was particularly difficult.