[Martin]

You Know You're An Architecture 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 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).
  
• You buy 50 dollars worth of magazines that you haven't read yet.
  
• When someone offers you a Bic pen, you feel offended.