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

...your roommates say "good morning," and you reply "good night."(we're not so polite, but i dun a roommate anw)
...you carry a toothbrush in your backpack. (i leave it in studio)
...someone asks you for your phone number and you give them the studios. (hmm, maybe they shld install phones in studio)
...you start paying rent for your desk space in studio (studio's foc la)
...You total up 3 meals of the day to your breakfast
...'Red Bull' is you favorite drink. (i drink coffee more)
...all of the Christmas gifts you give are wrapped in trace. (gd idea!)
...you ask Santa Clause for architecture supplies (n my birthday too!)
...you ask Santa Clause for a sleeping bag (i have a sleeping bag)
...after all of your expenses, you can't afford to pay attention (damn broke la)
...you have 3 or more cups of double shot coffee espressos in one night (espresso's too ex, nescafe cheaper)
...you hear the same song on the radio 3 or more times in one night. (studio 3's bu de bu ai)
...You know the different taste between UHU and Pritt glue (hmm, i've nv tried pritt glue)
...You can stay alive without sunlight, communicate with people nor having foods but you would commit suicide if the printer doesn't print (com centre comps are lousy)
...the only sleep you get is in your G. E. classes. (Spatial visual and AR lectures u mean?)
...You've lost your house key and u realized week later (i dont lose my keys)
...you sleep more than 16 hrs at weekends
...you note smt with ur drafting pen or yoken
... You are an expert and Photoshop, illustrator and auto cad but u don't know how to use MS excel (i'm a noob at all com-related prog)
...you've got 2 subjects / day but u got to study it whole day (i'm gonna die for GEK AR and PF..)
...you spend more time in studio than in your own bed.
...your parents are complaining that you're not having enough fun (they complain when i dun go home)
...you only leave studio to buy supplies (and mac's!!)
...you haven't taken a shower in a week (only one/two days la)
...you see showering as a waste of time.
...your 14-year-old brother has more of a social life than you (i dun have a brother)
...you consider using broccoli for your models (erm, maybe the trees from the "jungle kidosaki"?)
...you enjoy hanging out at 'Home and Garden Fair' ( i love artfriend more)
...you know all the 24-hour food places in the area (fs and studio 4 pantry!!)
..your friends get more sleep in one night than you do in one week.
...the streetlights turn off (well, i didn notice dat)
...You consider 3AM an early night
...when you are out at 3AM, and people knows where you're at
...smoking sounds appealing (it's bad for health!)
...you're out on Friday nights in studio (only sunday and wed nights la)
...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 (i attempted to catch the sunrise twice k)
...you ask what time it is, then ask "AM or PM?"
...you strangle your roommate because she said she stayed up late studying (i dun hav a roommate)
...your Friday night is 68 hours long (wednesdays u mean?)
...you slice your finger, and the first thing you think of is if you'll be able to finish your model (phew, i didnt cut my finger the other day)
...you understand why architects have glasses and white hair. (and die young)
...You call some great architects as if they are you friends.err... Frank... Tadao.
...you swear there are only 120 people at USC (what's USC?)
...you can listen to all your CD's in one night (nobody listen to cd nowadays)
...certain songs remind you of studio (studio 3's bu de bu ai is the ultimate champion)
...you change the style of music to country coz u r fed up with POP (i'm still fine with pop)
...you can conceptually compose the food on your plate (who cares?! jus eat la)
...upon hearing 'Weekends' you think of sleep
...the 'Shop Cafe' closes when you arrive, and reopens before you leave studio (we call it 'techno edge')
...you have to wait for breakfast shops to open (mac's breakfast!!!)
...you use architecture tools to eat (oh, zixu used tweezers to eat cup noodles!)
...you only buy groceries once a month (fortnightly, to stock up the studio 4 pantry)
...you wake up to go to school and you're already there (haha, i woke up five min b4 lecture last fri)
...you start wearing all black (and sch u too!)
...you have no life, and admit it.
...you start to critique a radio selection's selection of songs (nobody listens to radio too, itunes rules man!)
...you bring your friends to studio to keep you company (like ken comin every week to keep becky company?)
...you refer to outside studio as the "Real World."
..."going out to eat" is at the 'Shop Cafe' (ya, it's 'techno edge' la)
...going on a vacation involves going to 'Flax' or 'Pearl' (where's dat?)
...you confuse today and tomorrow
...you tell time by when other people leave studio
...you can write a 6-page term paper by procrastinating (it's facebook's fault)
...you hear "Didn't you wear that yesterday?' followed by "and the day before that?"
...you roommate files a Missing Person Report (i tot i said i dun hav a roommate?! )
..you count the number of days (not hours) you've been awake.
...you think days are 48 hours long.
...you go to the store to buy a six-pack of 'Red Bull' (no la, jus nescafe and ribena LIGHT)
..."Homecoming" happens once a term (i go home every week)
...on Halloween, you dress like your tutors
...on Halloween you trick-or-treat in studio to get arch supplies or 'Red Bull.'
..."respect", "coolness', and "hatred" are all based on how much sleep you get, or lack of
...you start using words your tutor uses (intention, strategy, style!)
...your bed has collected a layer of dust on it (not dat bad la)
...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 (i cherish my life)
...you contemplate dropping your major 3 times a day (never!)
...you have a tent pitched in studio, but still don't go to sleep (who got time to pitch tent?!)
...doing models all night long excites you
...you know the people in the studio better then your roommates (how many times must i tell u dat i dun hav a roommate?!)
...you know X-acto knives can be dangerous as we all know or will find out (erm, we use olfa)
...Beer pyramids AND Red Bull pyramids are some of our late-night late projects
...Elmer's glue doesn't dry quick -- not even close (i've nv used dat b4)
...you can always have more construction lines (i hate constructing perspectives)
...you 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 (i only noe the diff btwn the price of techno edge's 'all night long' coffee and nescafe)
...you believe you should be paid just for having the major (nope, but i wld pay someone to do my pf for me)
...you drink more in studio than you do when you're out (coffee u mean?)
...you have sent messages to another jackass architecture student in the same room as you are (msn rocks!)
...you think "X-Acto Blade Throwing" is a sport (oooh, dat's dangerous, like i said, i cherish my life!)
...you spend more time in studio than with your wife/husband (i'm not marrried)
..."scoring" involves an X-Acto blade (i care more bout teh tarik scores)
...you don't find out who wins the Presidential Election until Thanksgiving Break, if you get one at all (i didn noe tony blair was at ucc dat day!)
...a break consists of moving your car (i dont hav a license YET)
...you've memorized you favorite vending machine combination item
...you use your T-square or straight edge as a baseball bat (i'm sure my ultra long t-square will help me win if i played dat)
...you test which glue will cause your model to burn faster (and stick my fingers tgt)
... you tell people you major in "architorture" (i've heard ppl saying dat)
...U can't draw without listening to music!
...when people tell you that they like walking around with you because you see things no one else does
...you don't understand how someone doesn't strategize their way through traffic (or everything else in life)
...someone says "icon" and you think of Louis I. Kahn. (he's a jerk la)
...someone says "eye candy" and you think of gratuitous details on a building.
...you use words like "gratuitous" (my english not dat gd)
...you have to use spellchecker to see if you spelled "gratuitous" right (haha, zixu spelled "residence" and "the" wrongly!)
... 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 (final review's comin soon! we shall see)
... When lack of sleep makes you feel and act as if you are high (too sleepy to feel high)
... When any flat surface is seen as a place to take a nap (underneath the tables in the computer room, in hallways, on drafting boards (the floor in my room in hall is comfortable!)
... 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 (great idea!)
... When the books that you read consist primarily of photographs and not so much of words (no time to read books)
... When you have to ask your fellow architects to give you wake up calls (becky wakes me up in studio sometimes)
... When you have three or more alarm clocks in your room (i'll jus snooze my hp alarm)
... When cutting yourself with an x-acto seems like a good idea because it will give you an excuse for not having finished your work (no, taking fake mc is better, at least u get to finish ur model, better late than nv!)
... When you go to studio and spend more time socializing than doing work (probably?)
... When everyone in studio hates you because you are the one who plays their music too loudly
(i dun play music loudly, but i do get irritated wif studio 3's bu de bu ai)
... When you have developed an addiction to buying new albums, because you have gotten sick of all your old ones (who buys albums these days?)
... When professors for courses outside of the architecture school are lenient once they are aware you are an architecture student (all my modules are aki modules)
... When you tell someone in another school that you are architecture major and they automatically assume you have no social life (sad..)
... You have given a final presentation with your fly open (nope, but i've presented in fbts b4)
... You try to do things to make your friend laugh while he is presenting (i'm not dat mean)
... You have laid flat out on the floor and gone to sleep during a review (no la, i was sitting on the chair)
... You have snored during a review (phew, luckily i didn snore)
... When you skip classes because you have too much work to do (countless times)
... When writing a paper seems impossible and completely foreign to you (hey, i've alr submitted my GEK essay a few weeks back! but there's still AR essay comin up, damn..)
... 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 (who cares bout bathing when u're too tired)
... When you wonder what it would be like to be in another major and the idea of going out three or more nights a week is unfathomable
... When you participate in a mad dash to the campus cafe at closing time for free coffee (mac's strawberry sundae for supper aft wed's lect!! it's not free though..)
...you lose your eyesight and you gain backache and neck ache (aiyo, symptoms of dying young)
...when you refer to your computer as your "significant other"
...when you have nicknames for all your tools (i hav my "ultra-long" t-square, zixu has his 3H best friend)
...when you talk to all your tools like they're "real people" and use their nicknames (we're not dat crazy yet)
...when you try to talk to another person and realize that you've invented your own language and nobody else understands you (gracia always talk bout 'spatial experience', but only me and px can understand, haha)
...when a 102 degree fever or strep throat is to you no excuse to miss a crit (but it's a gd chance to earn teh tarik points!)
...you know all of these are true, no exaggerations (definitely!)



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