You know when you’re in architecture school 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 UHU tastes like;
4. you CELEBRATE space and OBSERVE your birthday;
5. coffee and cokes are tools, not treats;
6. people get nauseous just by smelling your caffeine breath;
7. you get surprised when you see a new building in your school;
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. you’ve fallen asleep in the washroom;
12. you’re 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 role of film to photograph the sidewalk;
19. you know the exact time the vending machines are refilled;
20. you always carry your deodorant;
21. you become excellent at recycling when making models;
22. when you try to communicate, you make a continuous and monotonous whine;
23. when someone offers you a Bic pen, you feel offended;
24. you take notes and messages with a rapidograph and color markers;
25. you combine breakfast, lunch and dinner into one single meal;
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 girlfriend/boyfriend 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 Photoshop, Illustrator 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, Mies, Norman…);
34. you buy 50 dollar magazines that you haven’t read yet.