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Monday, April 09, 2007
  So True...
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 ask Santa Clause for a sleeping bag....

you have 3 or more cups of double shot coffee espressos in one night...

You know the different taste between UHU and Pritt glue...

You can stay alive without sunlight, communicate with people norhaving foods but you would commit suicide if the plotter doesn't plotyour work out...

You've lost your house key and u realized week later...

you sleep more than 16 hrs at weekends...

You are an expert and Photoshop, illustrator and auto cadbut u don't know how to use MS excel...

your parents are complaining that you're not having enough fun....

you only leave studio to buy supplies....

you haven't taken a shower in a week....

you see showering as a waste of time....

your parents have more of a social life than you....

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....

everything you eat comes in single serving baggies....

you're out on Friday nights in studio....

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 ifyou'll be able to finish your model....

you understand why architects have glasses and white hair (are alcoholics, divorcees, etc...)....

you know all of these are true, no exaggerations....

you can conceptually compose the food on your plate....

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 (and your groceries come from a vending machine)....

you wake up to go to school and you're already there....

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 can write a 6-page term paper by procrastinating....

you hear "Didn't you wear that yesterday?' followed by "and the daybefore that?"...

you think days are 48 hours long....

concept of time is not forward, but a countdown from the time aproject is due ("What time is it?""4 hours 'till")....

doing models all night long excites you....

They know the phrase "Always done, never done" all too well andwish the professors would stop saying it...

And if you have been drunk while in the studio working on aproject, join the club.....

you use your T-square or straight edge as a baseball bat (guitar, fiddle, light saber..)....

when you use words like "gratuitous"....

when you have to use spellchecker to see if you spelled "gratuitous" right....

When you're not sure what day of the week it is...

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 (underneaththe tables in the computer room (that's where it is the warmest), inhallways, on drafting boards...

When the books that you read consist primarily of photographs andnot so much of words...

You have given a final presentation with your fly open...

When you skip classes because you have too much work to do...

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 a triple shot espresso just doesn't have enough "kick"...

when you try to talk to another person and realize that you'veinvented 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.

thanks for sending this miss h.
 
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