For architecture majors...read this and you'll be amazed that it's almost 100% true!!
For non architecture majors...read this if u wanna know the life of architecture major ppl
You know you're an Architecture Student when . . .
1. you analyze everything as if it were a building.
2. concept of time is not forward, but a countdown from the time a project is due ("What time is it?""4 hours 'till").
3. you slice your finger, and the first thing you think of is if you'll be able to finish your model.
4. you say "It's only midnight- I have plenty of time to finish."
5. you confuse today and tomorrow.
6. you carry a toothbrush in your backpack.
7. you confuse sunrise with sunset.
8. the alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.
9. you strangle your roommate because he said he stayed up late studying.
10. you're not ashamed of drooling in class anymore, especially in the Structures lesson.
11. you know what UHU tastes like.
12. breakfast is your 5th meal of the day.
13. the morning newspaper beats you home.
14. The idea that you have a room to live in outside of studio is just a myth.
15. you hear "Didn't you wear that yesterday?' followed by "and the day before that?"
16. you roommate files a 'Missing Person Report.'
17. someone asks you for your phone number and you give them the studio's.
18. You draw perspectives of your friends room on your Japanese homeowork just for the fun of it.
19. Whenever you finish a project and don't have any studio work to do, you are constantly wondering why you aren't in studio working.
20. You buy trace paper in mass quantities.
21. You understand what 4B, 2B, B, HB, H, 2H, and 4H are and have lots of each type.
22. Your idea of splurging on yourself is buying another circle template (or other miscellaneous template).
23. YOU ALWAYS WRITE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
24. You put a scale under everything you draw so that people know how big it is.
25. The biggest decision you have to make near the end of the term is "pencil, or ink?"
26. You always have a supply of bandaids around for exacto knife cuts.
27. You have a 30, 60, 90 and a 45, 45, 90 degree triangle. Or two. Or three. Or more.
28. You keep around adjustable triangles too just in case.
29. You start replacing pictures of your friends and family with pictures of buildings.
30. Watching the sun rise means you haven't gone to bed yet.
31. You never have enough wall space to pin things up.
32. You no longer leave studio to sleep, you just crash on the couch.
33. Your idea of relaxation is going to Writing 122.
34. You always have a supply of portable and non perishable food.
35. You can go for days without sunlight. (You go to class in the dark, you come home in the dark).
36. Midnight is considered early evening.
37. You put up everything on your walls with drafting tape.
38. Push pins become a valuable commodity.
39. on Halloween you trick-or-treat in studio to get arch supplies or 'Red Bull.'
40. Computers are known only as the white box of death. (They keep crashing on you).
41. you can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can't print, it's chaos.
42. Pencil smudges and ink smears are the bane of your existance.
43. You start competing with each other for number of hours without sleep. (Less than 40 need not compete).
44. redbull, coffee and cokes are tools, not treats.
45. Your four basic food groups are candy, caffeine, coffee, and pretzels.
46. Time spent with friends must be scheduled way in advance.
47. you've slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend.
48. you've listened to all your CDs in less than 48 hours.
49. you're not seen in public.
50. you lose your house keys for a week, and you don't even notice.
51. Days don't exist anymore, everything is based on number of hours of work. (Of which there are a lot).
52. you've used an entire role of film to photograph the sidewalk.
53. you become excellent at recycling when making models.
54. you take notes and messages with a rapidograph and colour markers.
55. you hear the same song on the radio 3 or more times in one night.
56. your parents have more of a social life than you.
57. your 11-year-old sister has more of a social life than you.
58. you consider using broccoli for your models.
59. you're dating another architecture student.
60. your friends get more sleep in one night than you do in one week.
61. you know all the 24-hour food places in the area.
62. you consider 3AM an early night.
63. "scoring" involves an X-Acto blade
64. you don't find out who wins the Presidential Election until Thanksgiving Break, if you get one at all.
65. you've got more photos of buildings than of actual people.
66. you've taken your girlfriend on a date to a construction site.
67. you've ever dreamt about your models.
68. upon hearing 'supermodel', you think of a nicely crafted-foam core model.
69. when you are being shown pictures of a trip, you ask what the human scale is.
70. you start wearing all black.
71. you carry a sweatshirt to all of your classes.
72. you have no life, and admit it.
73. you refer to outside studio as the "Real World."
74. you can use Photoshop, Illustrator, and make a web page, but you don't know how to use Excel.
75. you refer to great architects (dead or alive) by the first name as if you knew them. (Frank, Corbu, Mies, Norman...).
76. you buy 50-dollar architectural magazines that you haven't read yet.
77. when someone offers you a BIC pen, you feel offended.
78. all of the Christmas gifts you give are wrapped in trace.
79. you ask Santa Clause for architecture supplies.
80. Everytime you tell someone what your Major is they just look at you and say, "I'm sorry."
You know all of these are true, no exaggerations. ;)
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