What was your experience like in architecture school?


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...getting into an architecture school environment where you're the only woman was quite affecting. It affected my behavior. I was seen and not heard. I thought if I didn't make any noise no one would know I was there. It was a very different circumstance. I became very, let's say, isolated in my architectural education. This was at a time before the pill, the schools were in loco parentis; there was a requirement to be inside your dormitory at 10:30. All of the activity in the studio seemed to start at 9:45; and so I ended up doing my projects either at night alone in the dining hall, which was spooky. It was spooky being the only person downstairs working all night! And I needed big tables and stuff-it was creepy. And I also learned to work in the studio early in the morning, when there was no one there. And I notice at MIT going through in the morning, I saw four women in the studio, and I thought, "Go on, you're right on!" I understand.