While most people spent elementary school summers playing video games and foursquare, this editor lived a slightly more bohemian lifestyle.

Every year, what starts with around 40 or 50 freshman and sophomore potential architecture majors slowly dwindles to a small group of students who enter a surprisingly large array of fields. They are the proud, the computer-and-popsicle-stick-proficient—the architecture majors in the Columbia-Barnard joint program. And they will tell you that the program is not what you’d expect.