You know you're an Architect Student when

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what my life is like...

You Know You're An Architecture Student When:

- you analyze everything as if it were a building.
- concept of time is not forward, but a countdown from the time a project is due ("What time is it?""4 hours 'till").
- you slice your finger, and the first thing you think of is if you'll be able to finish your model. and if it's presentable
- you say "It's only midnight- I have plenty of time to finish."
- you confuse sunrise with sunset.
- you're not ashamed of drooling in class anymore, especially in Structures
- The idea that you have a room to live in outside of studio is just a myth.
- you hear "Didn't you wear that yesterday?' followed by "and the day before that?"
- you room mate files a 'Missing Person Report.'
- someone asks you for your phone number and you give them the studio's.
- You draw perspectives of your friends room on your Japanese homework just for the fun of it.
- Whenever you finish a project and don't have any studio work to do, you are constantly wondering why you aren't in studio working
- 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 xacto 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 start replacing pictures of your friends and family with pictures of buildings.
- You never have enough wall space to pin things up.
- your idea of relaxing is going to your core cirriculum classes
- You always have a supply of portable and non perishable food.
- You can go for days without sunlight. (You go to class in the dark, you come home in the dark).
- You put up everything on your walls with drafting tape.
- Push pins become a valuable commodity.
- on Halloween you trick-or-treat in studio to get arch supplies or 'Red Bull.'
- 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.
- You start competing with each other for number of hours without sleep. (Less than 40 need not compete).
- redbull, coffee and cokes are tools, not treats.
- Your four basic food groups are candy, caffeine, coffee, and pretzels.
- 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/itunes
- 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).
- you've used an entire role of film to photograph the sidewalk. LOL done it...
- you take notes and messages with a rapidograph and colour markers.
- your parents have more of a social life than you.
- you're dating another architecture student.
- 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.
- "scoring" involves an X-Acto blade
- you've got more photos of buildings than of actual people.
- you've taken your girlfriend on a date to a construction site.
- you've ever dreamt about your models.
- you start putting the address of your site down as your own
- 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 start wearing all black.
- you have no life, and admit it.
- you refer to outside studio as the "Real World."
- you can use Photoshop, Illustrator, Form-Z, AutoCAD, 3dstudio max, Indesign, and make a web page, but you don't know how to use Excel.
- you refer to great architects (dead or alive) by the first name as if you knew them. (Frank, Corbu, Mies, Norman...).
- you buy 50-dollar architectural magazines that you haven't read yet.
- when someone offers you a BIC pen, you feel offended.
- all of the Christmas gifts you give are wrapped in trace.
- you ask Santa Clause for architecture supplies.
- Everytime you tell someone what your Major is they just look at you and say, "I'm sorry."
- you CELEBRATE space and OBSERVE your birthday.
- you think it's possible to CREATE space.
- you fight with inanimate objects.
- you've fallen asleep in the school bathroom while brushing your teeth there
- you know the exact time the vending machines are refilled.
- you always carry your deodorant.
- when you try to communicate, you make a continuous and monotonous whine.
- you've danced YMCA (a fav clubdance number) with excellent choreography at 3 am and without a single drop of alcohol in your body.
- you see holidays only as extra sleeping time.
- you know the janitors by name.
- your roommates say "good morning," and you reply "good night."
- you start paying rent for your desk space in studio.
- you can't get a ride from 'Blacksburg Transit'. (ends at 2:45am)
- 'Red Bull' is you favorite drink.
- 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.
- the only sleep you get is in your core classes.
- you spend more time in studio than in your own bed.
- your parents are complaining that you're not having enough fun.
- you only leave studio to buy supplies.
- you see showering as a waste of time.
- you enjoy hanging out at 'Home Depot'. LOVE that place :)
- everything you eat comes in single serving baggies
- the idea of a 24 hour 'Kinko's' make's perfect sense
- you're out on Friday nights in studio.
- the only building on campus with its lights on is your studios'.
- a break consists of moving your car.
- you receive mail in studio.
- you strangle your roommate because he said he stayed up late studying.
- you've memorized you favorite vending machine combination item (B6).
- your Friday night is 68 hours long.
- you know how much a cubic foot of concrete weighs (150lbs). haha duhh who doesn't know that?
- you understand why architects have glasses and white hair.
- you swear there are only 120 people at VT.
- you can conceptually compose the food on your plate.
- you have to wait for breakfast shops to open.
- you go to the oncampus Burger King, and order the "usual", and they understand.
- you use architecture tools to eat.
- you think "X-Acto Blade Throwing" is a sport.
- you only buy groceries once a month.
- you wake up to go to school and you're already there
- you start to critique a radio selection's selection of songs.
- you bring your friends to studio to keep you company. (or enlist them to help you do your project... i love my mexican :-D)
- you have memorized every radio commercial that airs after 10PM.
- you confuse today and tomorrow.
- you tell time by when other people leave studio.
- you can write your thesis paper by procrastinating.
- you count the number of days (not hours) you've been awake.
- Homecoming" happens once a week.
- on Halloween, you dress like your instructors.
- you see your own picture on a milk carton.
- you start using words your instructor uses.
- 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.
- You wear your USB Drive around your neck
- The trunk of your car contains wood glue, a backup roll of trace, and a blanket... just in case.
- You daydream about the euphoric feeling of an ultra soft drafting brush on bare skin
- You are constantly picking drafting dots off the bottom of your shoes
- You think of "You know you're an Architecture major when..." lines in studio at 2 a.m.
- You realize that when someone is talking about French Curves they aren't talking about the girl they met over Spring Break
- Your roommate acts surprised if you're ever in your apartment
- When asked what day it is you have no idea, but always know how long until a project is due
- You use your alarm to tell you when to go to sleep
- You know what Tacky Glue tastes like
- You avoid eating, sleeping, or going to the hospital because you need to finish a model
- All of your teachers wear black only black
- When asked if you like the Guggenheim you reply Which one?
- You have an ample supply of B HB H & F and know the difference between them
- You think mechanical pencils are for sissies
- You use Soda as a tool, not a treat
- Youve never seen the other side of campus
- You have listened to every song on your iPod within two days
- You go to class to be marked present and then sleep until the lecture is over
- Telling your teacher your major actually gets you excused from work
- Your entire life savings was spent at Mish Mish during your first week of freshman year, since then you've just been getting deeper and deeper in debt.
- You know who Heath Hart is and you LOVE him.
- You are a "fourth year," not a senior cause you definately aren't graduating any time soon.
- You know how to silk screen your own t-shirts :-)
- You know how awesome those black sketch books made of recycled paper are.
- You have waited three hours in the middle of the night during competition week to print out a project, just to realize the damn plotter is spazzing out and
- there's no one to fix it until the next day.
- You've heard of the all powerful "Andy," but never actually SEEN him.
- You know that professors aren't required to come to class, ever.
- You've memorized the date and epoch, location, architect, and name of 95 buildings the night before Breitschmid's final, just to forget all of it the
second you walk out of Hancock.
- Professors are always called by their first names, obviously.