The end of the academic semester is drawing to a near, and architecture students are stressed out with their final reviews and projects.

I would define our profession as a part of the sleepless society, a group of students who are very frequently not getting enough sleep in their lives because of a pressure to meet deadlines in the design studio. Instead of suffering a loss of a grade, a loss of sleep is substituted. Some of this may be due to poor time management skills, but that is not always the case. Sometimes there are unrealistic deadlines that force students to spend hours in front of drawing boards, and more frequently the computer screen.

There’s an old joke that the lights to the architecture building are hardwired at the circuit breaker box, and that if someone turned off all the lights everyone in architecture would go to sleep. Instead, we always seem to be working on the next project, the next immediate deadline.