Wednesday, February 11, 2009

You know you're an architecture student when....







UTAS architecture school + design, where I spend most of my times...

I read this articles recently, quite interesting and familiar if you're an architecture student.

You know you're an architecture student when....

...you know the janitors by name.
...your roommates say "good morning," and you reply "good night."
...you carry a toothbrush in your backpack.
...you start paying rent for your desk space in studio.
...You total up 3 meals of the day to your breakfast.
...'Red Bull' is you favorite drink.
...all of the Christmas gifts you give are wrapped in trace.
...you ask Santa Clause for architecture supplies.
...you ask Santa Clause for a sleeping bag.
...after all of your expenses, you can't afford to pay attention
...you have 3 or more cups of double shot coffee espressos in one night
...you hear the same song on the radio 3 or more times in one night.
... You know the different taste between UHU and Pritt glue
... You can stay alive without sunlight, communicate with people nor having foods but you would commit suicide if the plotter doesn't plot your work out
...You've lost your house key and u realized week later
...you sleep more than 16 hrs at weekends
...u dance madly at 3 am though u aren't drunk
...you note smt with yr drafting pen or yoken
... You are an expert and Photoshop, illustrator and auto cad but u don't know how to use MS excel.
...you've got 2 subjects / day but u got to study it whole day.
...you spend more time in studio than in your own bed.
...your parents are complaining that you're not having enough fun.
...you haven't taken a shower in a week.
...you see showering as a waste of time.
...you've ever dreamt about your models.
...upon hearing 'supermodel', you think of a nicely crafted-foam core model.
...your parents have more of a social life than you.
...you consider using broccoli for your models.
...you enjoy hanging out at 'Home and Garden Fair'.
...you know all the 24-hour food places in the area.
...your friends get more sleep in one night than you do in one week.
...You consider 3AM an early night.
...when you are out at 3AM, and people knows where you're at.
...everything you eat comes in single serving baggies.
...smoking sounds appealing.
...you're out on Friday nights in studio.
...the only building on campus with its lights on is your studios'.
...you say "It's only midnight- I have plenty of time to finish."
...you confuse sunrise with sunset.
...you ask what time it is, then ask "AM or PM?"
...you strangle your roommate because she said she stayed up late studying.
...your Friday night is 68 hours long.
...you slice your finger, and the first thing you think of is if you'll be able to finish your model
...you understand why architects have glasses and white hair.
...certain songs remind you of studio.
...you change the style of music to country coz u r fed up with POP.
..Sister's favorite brand names are Prada DNKY etc... But yours are Mastex, Staedtler, pentel, rotring.
...you dare not to have a gf/bf coz no one can accept for what u are
...you can conceptually compose the food on your plate.
...upon hearing 'Weekends' you think of sleep.
...you have to wait for breakfast shops to open.
...you go to the food shop, and order the "usual", and they understand.
...you use architecture tools to eat.
...you only buy groceries once a month.
...you wake up to go to school and you're already there.
...you start wearing all black.
...you have no life, and admit it.
...you start to critique a radio selection's selection of songs.
...you bring your friends to studio to keep you company.
...you refer to outside studio as the "Real World."
...you confuse today and tomorrow.
...you tell time by when other people leave studio.
...you hear "Didn't you wear that yesterday?' followed by "and the day before that?"
...you roommate files a Missing Person Report.
...you count the number of days (not hours) you've been awake.
...you think days are 48 hours long.
...you go to the store to buy a six-pack of 'Red Bull'.
..."respect", "coolness', and "hatred" are all based on how much sleep you get, or lack of.
...you start using words your instructor uses.
...your bed has collected a layer of dust on it.
...concept of time is not forward, but a countdown from the time a project is due ("What time is it?""4 hours 'till").
...you have a tent pitched in studio, but still don't go to sleep.
...doing models all night long excites you.
...you know the people in the studio better then your roommates
...They know the phrase "Always done, never done" all too well and wish the professors would stop saying it...
...They know the number and price of their favorite item in the snack machine downstairs, as well as every other item and all the drinks in the other two machines.
...you have sent messages on aim to another jackass architecture student in the same room as you are.
...you spend more time in studio than with your wife.
...when you tell people you major in "architorture"
...U can't draw without listening to music!
...when people tell you that they like walking around with you because you see things know one else does.
...when someone says "icon" and you think of Louis I. Kahn.
...When you have slept straight through a day and into the next day after a final review..
... When lack of sleep makes you feel and act as if you are high
... When any flat surface is seen as a place to take a nap (underneath the tables in the computer room (that's where it is the warmest), in hallways, on drafting boards
...When you go to studio and spend more time socializing than doing work..
... When you have big enough balls to tell a critique that they are wrong..
... When everyone in studio hates you because you are the one who plays their music too loudly
... When after playing your music too loudly the same people who hated you start to take interest in your music
.... When you tell someone in another school that you are architecture major and they automatically assume you have no social
... You try to do things to make your friend laugh while he is presenting.
... You have layed flat out on the floor and gone to sleep during a review..
.. You have snored during a review..
... When you skip classes because you have too much work to do.
... When writing a paper seems impossible and completely foreign to you...
... When you have an inexplicable mark running off your page because you fell asleep while drafting
... When you are able to fall asleep underneath a running shower head and you are completely sober
...you lose your eyesight and you gain backache and neck ache
...when people stop you in hallways and say "hey, I like your beard" and you realize that you haven't shaved in three projects
...when you refer to your computer as your "significant other"
...when you have nicknames for all your tools
...when you talk to all your tools like they're "real people" and use their nicknames
...when a triple shot espresso just doesn't have enough "kick"
...when you try to talk to another person and realize that you've invented your own language and nobody else understands you.
...when a 102 degree fever or strep throat is to you no excuse to miss a crit.

























UTAS studio life.........my studio is on the top floor, the double volume space given me the oppurtunity to "survey" the 1st year studio at ground floor for lovely ladies...

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