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

let's share something i read today from fb group
it's true and make us remember something about our archi world..

let's read
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...you know the janitors and risers by name.

...your roommates say "good morning," and you reply "good night."

...someone asks you for your phone number and you give them the studios.

...you start paying rent for your desk space in studio.

...You total up 3 meals of the day to your breakfast.

...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 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 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.

...you only leave studio to buy supplies.

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

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

...you've ever dream about your models.

...you know all the 24-hour food places in the area. Yeah..mapley!

...your friends get more sleep in one night than you do in one week.

...the streetlights turn off.

..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.

...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.

...you slice your finger, and the first thing you think of is if you'll be able to finish your model.seeing ‘Blood’ when doing model

...you understand why architects have glasses and white hair.

...You call some great architects as if they are you friends.
err... Frank... Tadao. Even..your lecturers too..

...you can listen to all your CD's in one night.

...certain songs remind you of studio.

...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.

...you think the 'Weekender' happens every weekend.

...upon hearing 'Weekends' you think of sleep.

...the 'Shop Cafe' closes when you arrive, and reopens before you leave studio.

...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 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 count the number of days (not hours) you've been awake.

...you think days are 48 hours long.

...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 contemplate suicide 3 times a day.

...you contemplate dropping your major 3 times a day.

...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 than your roommates

...They can always have more construction lines.

...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 use your T-square or straight edge as a baseball bat.

....the day has 2 sunrises.

....when you tell people you major in "architorture"

...when people tell you that they like walking around with you because you see things know one else does.

...when you don't understand how someone doesn't strategize their way through traffic (or everything else in life).

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

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

... 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 a relationship with an upperclassman seems like a good idea because they might be able to help you on your project

... When a relationship with an underclassman seems like a good idea because their final review is before yours and therefore, they can help you produce once they are finished

... When the books that you read consist primarily of photographs and not so much of words

... When you have to ask your fellow architects to give you wake up calls

... When you have three or more alarm clocks in your room.

... 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 you tell someone in another school that you are architecture major and they automatically assume you have no social life

... When you have a non architect friend who wants to tag along to architecture parties because they know that architects have the best parties

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

... 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 attempt to do a media project in lieu of a paper

... 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 you start measuring all time segments in terms of "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 you try to talk to another person and realize that you've invented your own language and nobody else understands you



sources: You know you're an architecture student when... group fb