Signs of being an Architctural student

You know you're an architecture student when.

1: The alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.

2: You're not ashamed of drooling in class anymore, especially in the Structures lecture.

3: You know what super glue and Fevicol taste like. (And you can differentiate between types
of adhesives based on their taste.)

4: You CELEBRATE space and OBSERVE your birthday.

5: Coffee and coke are tools, not treats.

6: Your relatives see you more as a struggling artist than as someone who designs buildings.

7: You're not surprised when you see that a new building has materialized in your school overnight.

8: You think it's possible to CREATE space.

9: You've slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend.

10: You fight with inanimate objects.

11: When someone casually asks you to design their house someday, you take it seriously and keep bugging them about it.

12: Your brother or sister thinks he or she is an only child.

13: You've listened to all your CDs in less than 48 hours.

14: You're not seen in public.

15: You lose your house keys for a week and you don't even notice.

16: You've brushed your teeth and washed your hair in the school's washroom.

17: You've discovered the benefits of having none or very short hair. You've started to
appreciate inheriting baldness.

18: You've used an entire roll of film to photograph the sidewalk.

19: You know the exact time the vending machines are refilled. You use your creativity in
making the most of cafeteria food by combining tomato soup (starter), Lay's chips (side dish), cup noodles (main course), coffee (beverage) and a tic tac (dessert) into a wholesome meal with minimal expenditure.

20: You always carry your deodorant.

21: You've become excellent at recycling materials when making models.

22: Your writing skills are pathetic and your handwriting is worse than a doctor's
prescription but your sketching skills are excellent.

23: You've danced with excellent choreography at 3 am and without a single drop of alcohol in
your body.

24: You take notes and messages with a radio graph and color markers.

25: You combine breakfast, lunch and dinner into one single meal. In fact, you consider Ramadan the most convenient month of the year.

26: You see holidays only as extra sleeping time.

27: You've got more photographs of buildings than of actual people.

28: You've taken your boyfriend (girlfriend) on a date to a construction site.

29: You've realized that French curves are not that exciting.

30: You can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can't print, it’s chaos.

31: When you’re being shown pictures of a trip, you ask what the human scale is.

32: You can use Photo shop or Coral Draw and make a web page, but you don't know how to use Excel.

33: You refer to great architects (dead or alive) by their first name, as if you knew them.
(Frank, Corbu, Mies, Norman...)

34: You buy 500 bucks worth of interior design magazines that you haven't read yet.

35: You go to earthquake and tsunami-hit areas for site study.

36: You have been frisked thoroughly at airports and questioned rigorously about your roll-pack.

37: Your non-architect friends don't get excited when you talk about minimalism anymore.

38: Sometimes you don't know what the date is because you haven't slept in so long that the days seem to merge together.

39: You refer to engineers as a lower life form.

40: You refer to tearing up an A0 size sheet into tiny pieces as scaling down to manageable size.

41: You've used butter sheets, handmade paper, gateway sheets and/ or scotch tape to gift-wrap birthday presents. Your architecture friends do the same and your non-architecture friends marvel at your innovativeness.

42: You can identify all the characters from The Fountainhead with people you know. You try to sketch like Roark.