Everyone knows they are an architecture student if.....

1. ...the alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.

2. ...you're not ashamed of drooling in lectures 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 toilet.

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 toilet.

17.....Going to bed at 3 am is early

18. ...you've used an entire roll of film to photograph the pavement

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 magazines that you haven't read yet.

35. ...when fake light feels natural and daylight is an unusual experience

To let go...
doesn't mean you stop caring, it means you can't fix someone else,
is not to punish but to allow learning from natural consequences,

is not to admit defeat or powerlessness, but to realize the outcome,
is not in my hands,
is to spend time filling my own needs and plugging the drainholes created by others' unmet... needs,
is not to judge, but to seek understanding and acceptance,
is to move from denial to acceptance; from feeling defensive to reflective,
is to stop nagging, arguing and scolding,
is to stop focussing on that which you wish would change, but which is out of your control
is to focus your thoughts on that which you can control: your own mind and attitude,
is to stop wanting things to be different and to start making them different,
is not to regret what was or wasn't, or what might have been, it is to learn, grow and prepare for the future,
is to invest in yourself; to invest time and mental energy on your own mental and emotional health,
is to pursue your own goals, dreams and plans while leaving all doors open to the future possibilities