too late

Graduation may not the best starting point for the clock, professional registration may be the point where the clock should start. Unless you are not interested in being a registered architect.

Bryce, start first by getting into architecture school and learn a thing or two about the profession before getting all hot and heavy with fluffy ambitions.

don’t do it! Fuck this profession

Why wait till graduation?

Doing yoga, not stretching.

the sooner the better. your young body will heal faster after the stumbles and falls. keep your mind open to the lessons learned as you tune your craft into a precise, financially sustainable, locally legal and code compliant, adequately insured, technologically equipped, competently staffed, hopefully beneficial to humanity, architecting machine. have fun while you are at it, and try to get some interesting shit built while you are at it- it helps balance out the paperwork.