I'm a 1st year Masters Student in Architecture.

Be prepared for a lot of work like people said. Most of it is pretty fun if your heart is in it. Ultimately I've found two types of students in architecture (well three if you count people who do poorly and don't do shit). First there are those who commit fully to architecture, they live and breath it, all their friends are architecture students, they spend a lot of time in studio, all their general education classes are design classes, they dress in all black, they're the stereotype. There's a second type, those who come in, do their work, study other things, go outside the studio.

Personally, I was in the second group and that saved me. At first I tried to commit fully to the idea of studio, spend every waking second there, read everything I could. And I was burnt out almost immediately, I almost dropped out. But I had an advisor who suggested I mix as many other classes in and what I found was when I came back to my architecture projects I had a new refreshing perspective on the projects. It wasn't that the work was any less, it was that when I wasn't working my life wasn't architecture, but those experiences influenced what I did.

If you begin to feel like you're getting overworked and bogged down I think the best thing to do is take a break. Both literally take a 15 minute break and more figuratively take classes in other classes you love. I ended up finding I absolutely loved history, not quite enough to major in it, but enough that I'm teaching architectural history in the fall which is paying for my masters, so that's pretty cool.

This doesn't mean you should do less work in studio, but see studio as a place to work, not as a place to live. I chewed out a student last year who would sleep in his loud studio despite living in the residence hall two buildings away because he only slept there because people saw how dedicated he was that he even slept at his desk. Don't be that kid. He has no perspective because he has no experience outside of studio.

Anyways, that may be more of a rant than anything else, but don't get sucked into the architecture clique. Dressing like an "architect" doesn't make you a better architect, it just makes you look stuck up.

As for the profession, it has a lot of dynamic people who do a lot of problem solving. If you want to make things look pretty all day you should go into graphic design or another design major but if you like design and want to go even deeper into how something looks than just a visual element architecture is really great and rewarding. What you do becomes something real, something tangible, and people experience it. It's fast paced but be ready for a lot of hours and don't do it to get rich, do it because you may have to work 10+ hour days right before a project deadline but you're loving every minute of it.

(Oh, and start applying for internships in January-February, don't be an idiot like me and think you can just cold call firms in April, they've usually hired everyone already by that point.)