Not So Bad After All?

It's fascinating. During the school year, I always feel like the dunce in studio. I always feel like teachers look at my work and think, "This is exactly what I teach students not to do." I feel like most people in studio think that in general my architectural design skills are poor to Wal-mart quality. And yet, here I find at LWMA that the architect and my supervisor actually seem to like my work. My coworkers actually seem to like it too. Not my school work, mind you. I'll just continue hiding that trash I do during the school year.
Right now the office is working on a new project in QingDao where we are revamping some old factory buildings for office and retail. I chose to do a geometric analyzation a la first year. For once, the person in charge liked what I did, and assigned two people to work with me on my idea. Not that I'm in charge. XiaoGuan and ZhangYu spent the better part of an hour interrogating me in a language I find I barely understand, trying to understand how I came up with what I did, so we can all figure it out and make something nice. I do think I'll keep this project for my portfolio. It's slightly Koolhaas like.
So maybe I'm actually not a bad architect. Maybe I just need to take less classes so I can focus more on studio... I think I just have to restructure my priority list during the year.