Friday, November 6, 2009

We know we studied in SPA because...

1. Our families and roommates said "good morning," and you reply "good night."
2. After all of your expenses, you can't afford to pay attention
3. You know the different taste between DST, Cello Tape, Glue and Fevicol.
4. You can stay alive without sunlight, without communicating with people or without having food but you would commit suicide if the plotter doesn't plot your work out
5. The only sleep you get is in your Theory classes.
6. You sleep more than 16 hrs at weekends
7. You can dance madly at 3 am though u aren't drunk
8. Your don’t mind writing notes with sketch pens or rotring
9. You spend more time in studio than in your own bed.
10. You’ve ever dreamt about giving reviews.
11. Upon hearing 'model', you think of a nicely crafted-foam core model.
12. Your parents have more of a social life than you.
13. You know all the 24-hour food places in the area.
14. Your Non SPA friends get more sleep in one night than you do in one week.
15. The streetlights turn off.
16. You consider 3AM an early night.
17. When you are out at 3AM, and people knows where you're at.
18. Smoking sounds appealing.
19. You're out on Friday nights in studio.
20. You say "It's only midnight- I have plenty of time to finish."
21. You confuse sunrise with sunset.
22. You ask what time it is, then ask "AM or PM?"
23. You strangle your roommate because s/he said s/he stayed up late studying.
24. Your Friday night is 68 hours long.
25. You know how much a cubic foot of concrete weighs (150lbs).
26. You understand why architects have glasses and white hair (out of no reason)
27. You call some great architects as if they are your friends
28. You know all of these are true, no exaggerations
29. Certain songs remind you of studio
30. Your Sister's favourite brand names are Prada DNKY etc... But yours is Stedlar
31. You can conceptually compose the food on your plate
32. Upon hearing 'Weekends' you think of sleep
33. The hostel 'Nescafe' opens at 4 pm and closes at 4 am
34. You start wearing all black
35. You have no life, and admit it
36. You bring your friends to studio to keep you company
37. You refer to outside studio as the "Real World"
38. You confuse today and tomorrow
39. You tell time by when other people leave studio
40. You can write a 6-page term paper by procrastinating
41. You hear "Didn't you wear that yesterday?' followed by "and the day before that?"
42. You count the number of days (not hours) you've been awake
43. "Respect", "coolness', and "hatred" are all based on how much sleep you get, or lack of
44. You see your own picture on a milk carton
45. You start using words your faculty uses
46. Concept of time is not forward, but a countdown from the time an assignment is due ("What time is it?""4 hours 'till")
47. When there is nothing such as back benching still you fight for the last row to sit which is actually the second row
48. When question on slums didn’t come in today’s paper and you are not worried as it may come tomorrow
49. When your only preparation for the exams is the discussed revision of your classmates
50. When you know the importance of non-sharing of work and you hate the word “team.”
51. You are more interested in making an assorted collection of movies, videos, songs or pornography than actually watching them
52. When you have a sutta class
53. When your class sex ratio is above par, compared to any engineering college in the country, still you hate those girls.
54. When you can discuss about anything without knowing anything
55. The roof, planning block, at 4 AM -- nothing like it
56. Beer bottle cleaning are some of our late-night late projects
57. And if you have been drunk while in the studio working on a project, join the club.
58. You drink more in studio than you do when you're out
59. You use your T-square to play cricket
60. The day has 2 sunrises
61. U can't draw without listening to music
62. When people tell you that they like walking around with you because you see things know one else does
63. When you don't understand how someone doesn't strategize their way through traffic (or everything else in life)
64. When someone says "iconic" and you think of some building
65. When you use words like "equity, rhetoric, ubiquitous"
66. When you have to use spellchecker to see if you spelled "Ubiquitous" right
67. When you're not sure what day of the week it is other then Mondays
68. When you have slept straight through a day and into the next day after a final review
69. When lack of sleep makes you feel and act as if you are high
70. When any flat surface is seen as a place to take a nap, on stairs, on drafting boards
71. When your mom becomes your alarm clock, irrespective of where she lives
72. When you go to studio and spend more time socializing than doing work
73. When you have big enough balls to tell a critique that they are wrong and you end up getting abused
74. When everyone in studio hates you because you are the one who plays their music too loudly
75. When after playing your music too loudly the same people who hated you start to take interest in your music
76. When you have developed an addiction to download new albums, new movies because you have gotten sick of all your old ones
77. When you are the only sober person standing outside for an autorickshaw and the driver is also drunk
78. When you know how to fit 12 in a three wheeler
79. When you have a sign taped to your back that says do not disturb
80. You try to do things to make your friend laugh while he is presenting
81. You sleep while others are being reviewed
82. You have snored during a review
83. When you skip classes because you have too much work to do
84. When writing a paper seems impossible and completely foreign to you and you still write
85. When you have an inexplicable mark running off your page because you fell asleep while drafting
86. You lose your eyesight and you gain backache and neck ache
87. When people stop you in hallways and say "hey, I like your beard" and you realize that you haven't shaved in three reviews
88. When you start measuring all time segments in terms of "reviews”
89. When taking "5" is taking a nap
90. When you try to talk to another person and realize that you've invented your own language and nobody else understands you
91. When Pink Floyd lyrics actually make sense
92. When a 102 degree fever or strep throat is to you no excuse to miss a review
93. When calling our selves loser was the best we can do
94. You don’t have a girlfriend and you admit that you are not capable of
95. When you use A1 sheets to cover yourself to sleep
96. You never watched or knew what others were doing in the studio; still you ended up finishing the semester’s group project
97. When you know the meaning of data sharing
98. You know it’s not over and never will it, as you always keep coming back…
(Not an original idea)

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