The Characteristics of Architecture Students

Next are the characteristics of Architecture Students (might be The Architects also) whether he/ she is undergraduate, postgraduate, postdoctoral or elses.. Just take a look of them (Source: Safaidin Al-Niam, an Architect Consultan in Texas, USA).
1. ...the alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep (And sometimes we re-arrange the alarm clock if we hadn’t finish yet).
2. ...you're not ashamed of drooling in class anymore, especially in the Structures lecture (Sometimes in Architecture History class).
3. ...you know what super glue and Fevicol taste like. (And you can differentiate between types of adhesives based on their taste.) (Well, it was between a castol and a Fox glue)
4. ...you CELEBRATE space and OBSERVE your birthday.
5. ...coffee and coke are tools, not treats. (also some chocolates, peanuts, crackers, everything that made us still awaken)
6. ...your relatives see you more as a struggling artist than as someone who designs buildings. (and they didn’t know the correlation between them)
7. ...you're not surprised when you see that a new building has materialized in your school overnight. (and a new park, a new room)
8. ...you think it's possible to CREATE space. (yes, it is)
9. ...you've slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend. (the sleeping times are valuable things)
10. ...you fight with inanimate objects. (and thoughts also)
11. ...you've become excellent at recycling materials when making models. (the coconut waste to be grasses)
12. ...your writing skills are pathetic and your handwriting is worse than a doctor's prescription but your sketching skills are excellant.. (except when the letters are the title of the drawings)
13. ...you've danced with excellent choreography at 3 am and without a single drop of alcohol in your body. (hehe, even after 2 days of sleepless)
14. ...you take notes and messages with a radiograph and color markers. (we forget about the conventional black ink)
15. ...you combine breakfast, lunch and dinner into one single meal. In fact, you consider Ramadan the most convenient month of the year. (and sometimes forget if the meals are our breakfast, lunch or dinner??)
16. ...you see holidays only as extra sleeping time. (and as an extra time to fasten the task to be finished)
17. ...you've got more photographs of buildings than of actual people. (and sometimes the photographs of steels, irons, concretes, cements or sands)
18. ...you've taken your boyfriend (girlfriend) on a date to a construction site. (or to the studio, help us making a model)
19. ...you've realized that French curves are not that exciting. (there are others more intereting)
20. ...you can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can't print, it's chaos. (in my case, it was a chaos when our “Rotrings” were broken)
21. ...when you're being shown pictures of a trip, you ask what the human scale is. (yups, the scale is important)
22. ...you can use Photoshop or Corel Draw and make a web page, but you don't know how to use Excel. (hehe, I’d just known Excel after my graduation)
23. ...you refer to great architects (dead or alive) by their first name, as if you knew them, for example for your mail id, room name, sticker in your vehicle, etc. (Frank, Corbu, Mies, Norman, David....... .... etc) (My teacher, Ms. Anna really admires Tadao Ando)
24. ...you buy 500 bucks worth of interior design magazines that you haven't read yet. (yes, just for take a look and get the inspirations)
25. ...you go to earthquake and tsunami-hit areas for site study. (I went to a construction site to have a conversation with the labours)
26. ...you have been frisked thoroughly at airports and questioned rigorously about your roll-pack. (I often suspected of bringing a bazooka on me, hehe)
27. ...your non-architect friends don't get excited when you talk about minimalism anymore. (they don’t even want to talk about it with me)
28. ...sometimes you don't know what the date is because you haven't slept in so long that the days seem to merge together. (hehe.. sometimes we were just considering if it was the time for consultation to the lecturer)
29. ...you refer to engineers as a lower life form. (many as an artist, a philosopher, a labour??)
30. ...you refer to tearing up an A0 size sheet into tiny pieces as scaling down to manageable size. (thanks God there is Autocad also)
31. ...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. (they said that we are creative person)
32. ...you can identify all the characters from The Fountainhead with people you know. You try to sketch like Roark.
33. ...you've started using blue color pencil for everything, from taking notes to holding up your hair in a knot. (hehe, they are multi-use things)
34. ...your fingers feel itchy when you don't have a pencil on your person. (nowadays, we use Scetch-Up)
35. ...when you do have a pencil, you start sketching on any available surface. (a papers, a tissue, a wall?? Hehe)
36. ...you've fought with the manager of Qwiky's or Coffee Day many times because he wouldn't allow you to take away the table-top you doodled on. (hahaha.. some persons cry for washing their tissues)
37. ...when you get excited, swoon and point at something in a public place, it is often not a member of the opposite sex but a new type of suspended false ceiling or wall dado. (or a new decoration, or a new door technologies, hehe)
38. ...you have, on more than one occasion, experienced fits of pleasure thinking about your dream house. (an exceptional house off course ^^)
39. ...before considering going on a date, you like to see the portfolios of potential dating material.
40. ...you have made a graphical logo of your name.(and ur company logo also)