YOU KNOW YOU'RE (OR WERE) AN ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WHEN ...

• the alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.
  
• you know what UHU tastes like.
  
• redbull, coffee and cokes are tools, not treats.
  
• you've slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend.
  
• 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 used an entire role of film to photograph the sidewalk.
  
• you become excellent at recycling when making models.
  
• you take notes and messages with a rapidograph and colour markers.
  
• you see holidays only as extra sleeping time.
  
• you've got more photos of buildings than of actual people.
  
• you've taken your girlfriend on a date to a construction site.
  
• you can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can't print,
  it's chaos.
  
• when you are being shown pictures of a trip, you ask what the human scale is.
  
• you can use Photoshop, Illustrator, and make a web page, but you don't know how
  to use Excel.
  
• you buy 50 dollars architectural magazines that you haven't read yet.
  when someone offers you a BIC pen, you feel offended.
• you CELEBRATE space and OBSERVE your birthday
• you get surprised when you see a new building in your school
• you've fallen asleep in the washroom
• you're brother or sister thinks he or she is an only child
• you combine breakfast, lunch and dinner into one single meal
• you refer to great architects (dead or alive) by their first name, as if you knew them. (Frank, Mies, Norman...)