Tuesday, November 25, 2008

ARCHITORTURE

I found this went I was googleing on architecture students blogs.
Original is found here

You Know You're An Architecture Student When...

A litany of depressing behaviors.

* 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 leave 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, Tadao).
* You buy 50 dollars worth of magazines that you haven't read yet.
* When someone offers you a Bic pen, you feel offended.

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*You spent 20 hours in front of the computer working on the same project.
*You don't understand how somebody can spend less than RM20 at the stationary shop.
*When someone called you lazy, you want to have them murdered.
*You can live without human contact, sunlight, food, but if your plotter’s ink runs out… Chaos!!!
*You have the modern mark: a blister in your palm’s hand for the constant use of your mouse (This is so true!)
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Changes in your vocabulary: homework to project, ball to sphere, print to plot...
*You spent more than RM100 on printing.
*You hate tracing papers.
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You hate people telling you "go to sleep" or "still a lot to do?" or "when can you finish?".
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When you finally have free time to go out you keep thinking "who was the idiot that designed the restaurant’s bathroom?" or "who designed this menu?" or "who designed this [chair, table, lighting, fork, etc]?"

7 comments:

helyanwe said...

XD nice, i wonder if there's one for law?

flo.rence. said...

Grace, you can try come out with one!

Anonymous said...

Why would you feel offended with a Bic pen?

flo.rence. said...

Because architects always sketch with good drawing pen. So if someone offers you a Bic pen, it's like.. some cheapskate pen to use

helyanwe said...

XD oh, i was wondering about that too.

And hmm, i don't have that much experience yet to make jokes XD

flo.rence. said...

LOL, architect/ architect-soon-to be is very particular about pens since it's like their "weapons" or some sort like that. So it's normal to look down on "normal" pens XD

LOL, we are trained to crit, (means criticize in archi world) so it's normal to wonder who designed the washroom etc XD

LOL, Grace if you sit down and think abit sure can come out with a decent list!

helyanwe said...

XD hahaha, architects would make fun dates? Or not :P