Reading 2 - Suggestions for an integrative education - Response

We, architecture students, are told that employers expect a certain amount of understanding of BIM and BIM software. How much knowledge they expect is unclear. It is also made clear that school is only the beginning of our architectural education. We are told that most of what we will need to know to become mature architects will be learned on the job. Taking that statement at face value it may seem that architecture students can take it easy at school. Actually, the opposite is true. The amount of knowledge we are expected to  absorb can already be overwhelming. Despite that, I don't see BIM as disruptive. It is part of the reality of the architecture profession, so I want to learn it. On the other hand, I don't yet see how it will help me with  what Cheng refers to as "design thinking." Whether it is a limitation of the software or my inexperience in using it, I don't think I will become comfortable designing in Revit any time soon. I see Revit as a tool for solving the problem of transitioning from design concept to so something that can physically be constructed, analyzed, priced, etc. BIM needs to be integrated in such a way that it overlaps both design thinking stage and problem solving. This could mean a simpler version of BIM as Cheng suggests, to introduce data in design. But at this point in my education, I see BIM as a way to answer questions I have not yet learned to ask.