^ good luck. if u ever plan on studying architecture u should read this first...it's one of those forward emails that every archi student gets...it's sadly funny because everything is true.
"You know you're an architecture student when..."
- you analyze everything as if it were a building
- You think it's possible to create space
- You celebrate space and observe your birthday
- you explain everything through plan, elevations and sections
- you are surprised when you see a new building in your school
- concept of time is not forward, but a countdown from the time a project is due ("What time is it?""4 hours 'till").
- you say "It's only midnight- I have plenty of time to finish."
- you confuse today and tomorrow
- you confuse sunrise with sunset
- watching the sun rise means you haven't gone to bed yet
- you start competing with each other for number of hours without sleep. (Less than 40 need not compete).
- you can go for days without sunlight. (You go to class in the dark, you come home in the dark)
- you slice your finger, and the first thing you think of is if you'll be able to finish your model
- the alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep
- you've fallen asleep in the bathroom
- the idea of a 24 hour 'Kinko's' make's perfect sense
- you're not ashamed of drooling in class anymore, especially in the Structures lesson.
- time spent with friends must be scheduled way in advance
- you've slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend
- 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
- days don't exist anymore, everything is based on number of hours of work (Of which there are a lot)
- your friends get more sleep in one night than you do in one week
- you know all the 24-hour food places in the area
- you consider 3AM an early night
- you hear the same song on the radio 3 or more times in one night
- your parents have more of a social life than you
- your 11-year-old sister has more of a social life than you
- you have no life, and admit it
- a break consists of moving your car
- When you try to communicate, you make a continuous and monotonous whine
- you know what UHU tastes like.
- you buy trace paper in mass quantities.
- you understand what 4B, 2B, B, HB, H, 2H, and 4H are and have lots of each type.
- your idea of splurging on yourself is buying another circle template (or other miscellaneous template).
- yOU ALWAYS WRITE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
- you put a scale under everything you draw so that people know how big it is.
- the biggest decision you have to make near the end of the term is "pencil, or ink?"
- you always have a supply of bandaids around for exacto knife cuts.
- you have a 30, 60, 90 and a 45, 45, 90 degree triangle. Or two. Or three. Or more.
- you keep around adjustable triangles too just in case.
- you put up everything on your walls with drafting tape
- push pins become a valuable commodity
- you never have enough wall space to pin things up
- computers are known only as the white box of death (They keep crashing on you)
- you can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can't print, it's chaos
- pencil smudges and ink smears are the bane of your existance
- redbull, coffee and cokes are tools, not treats
- your four basic food groups are candy, caffeine, coffee, and chips
- you've used an entire role of film to photograph the sidewalk
- you've got more photos of buildings than of actual people
- you start replacing pictures of your friends and family with pictures of buildings
- you've ever dreamt about your models
- you become excellent at recycling when making models
- you consider using broccoli for your models
- upon hearing 'supermodel', you think of a nicely crafted-foam core model
- when you are being shown pictures of a trip, you ask what the human scale is
- you can use Photoshop, Illustrator, and make a web page, but you don't - know how to use Excel
- you buy 50-dollar architectural magazines that you haven't read yet.
- "scoring" involves an X-Acto blade
- you take notes and messages with a rapidograph and colour markers
- when someone offers you a BIC pen, you feel offended
- you start wearing all black
- you've taken your girlfriend/boyfriend on a date to a construction site
- you're dating another architecture student
(heh, this is especially true)- everytime you tell someone what your Major is they just look at you and say, "I'm sorry."