Take Us As You Find Us

I think I'm extremely socially awkward, but sometimes when I have a conversation with someone they usually resort to the old 'what do I study' since they don't know where to begin. So almost every conversation I have with somebody usually resorts to 'so what do architects do?'. I'm not an architect. But I continue on a limb.

My typical conversation with an engineering student goes like this:

Engineer: Oh you study architecture?
Me: Yup.
E: Oh, the dudes who make buildings pretty?
Me: Yup.
E: Architects are so unreasonable eh? That's what they tell you in Engineering. They make those annoying structures that hardly stand up, and then we engineers are told to make it stand up. Sigh.
Me: Yup. I know. In architecture school, the teachers couldn't care less. They just tell us we can design anything we want as long as it looks good, and they tell us we can leave the engineers to do the rest.