You know you're an architect student when...
A litany of depressing behavours.
- The alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.
- You’re not ashamed of drooling in class anymore, especially during Structures lectures
- You know what Superglue tastes like.
- You celebrate space and observe your birthday
- Coffee and Red Bull are tools, not treats.
- People are nauseated just by smelling your caffeine breath.
- You are surprised when you see a new building in your school.
- You think it’s possible to create space.
- You’ve slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend.
- You fight with inanimate objects.
- You’ve fallen asleep in the bathroom.
- Your brother or sister thinks he or she is an only child.
- You’ve listened to all your CDs in less than 48 hours.
- You’re not seen in public.
- You lose your house keys for a week and you don’t even notice.
- You’ve brushed your teeth and washed your hair in the university’s bathroom.
- You’ve discovered the benefits of having none or very short hair, and you’ve started to appreciate inheriting baldness.
- You’ve used an entire role of film to photograph the footpath.
- You know the exact time the vending machines are refilled.
- You always carry your deodorant.
- You become excellent at recycling when making models.
- When you try to communicate, you make a continuous and monotonous whine.
- You’ve danced YMCA with excellent choreography at 3 am and without a single drop of alcohol in your body.
- You take notes and leve messages with a rapidograph and colour markers.
- You combine breakfast, lunch and dinner into one single meal.
- You see holidays only as extra sleeping time.
- You’ve got more photographs of buildings than of actual people.
- You’ve taken your girlfriend (boyfriend) on a date to a construction site.
- You’ve realised that French curves are not that exciting.
- You can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can’t print it’s chaos.
- When you’re being shown pictures of a trip, you ask about the human scale
- You can use Photoshop, Illustrator and make a web page, but you don’t know how to use Excel.
- You refer to great architects (dead or alive) by their first name as if you knew them (Frank, Corbu, Mies, Norman).
- You buy 50 dollars worth of magazines that you haven’t read yet.
- When someone offers you a Bic pen, you feel offended.
Many of these could easily be applied to art school students.
