As a graduate student at Tech, I've learned that to be a great architectural student requires hard work and unconditional dedication to one's own projects. It's also important to always be open to new ideas and explore beyond your parameters and to be able to articulate your ideas well as each of you will embark on together. Remember this, as Frank Lloyd Wright once said;
"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. "- FLW