1) ...you hit the sack when other people's alarm clocks are going off.
2) ...you have ever drooled during a class, espcially a Physics class.
3) ...you eat glue.
4) ...you CELEBRATE space and form and OBSERVE your birthday (in studio).
5) ...you have spent more hours in the studio than you have spent sleeping in your entire lifetime.
6) ...you have traveled to Hobby Lobby more than twenty times in one week.
7) ...you think things other than words can "read well".
8) ...you hear the entire morning on your favorite radio station BEFORE you go to bed.
9) ...you smell like coffee when you talk.
10) ..you don't know what day it is.
11) ..you think the state bird is your middle finger.
12) ..you have altered your vocabulary drastically (such as replacing the word "neat" with "engaging"..."hello" with "leave-me-alone"...etc)
13) ..you have ever made anything out of Coke cans.
14) ..you include Wheat-Thins into your daily diet.
15) ..you think it's possible to CREATE space.
16) ..you have listened to the radio long enough to hear a song more than thrice in one sitting.
17) ..you have more bandages on your hands than a mummy has on its entire body.
18) ..you don't know your telephone number or the location of your residence hall.
19) ..you have ever slept more than 18 hours in one period of slumber.
20) ..you fight with inanimate objects.
21) ..you smell like the couch upstairs.
22) ..you've tasted all the different brands of soda containing caffeine and regularly debate which is more effective.
23) ..you've ever visited Wal-Mart between the hours of 2am and 6am.
24) ..you've ever urinated on yourself because you didn't have time for restroom travel.
25) ..you are deaf.
26) ..you are never seen in public without headphones around your neck.
27) ..you are never seen in public.
28) ..you never go to your 9:30 class (sleepwalkers included).
29) ..your roommate thinks you have a life of mad sex and partying.
30) ..you've ever held your head and yelled "..no vertigo, no vertigo!"
31) ..you've ever listened to your WHOLE CD collection within 48 hours.
32) ..you've cut your own hair with a utility knife.
33) ..you've ever seen a rabbit, skunk, or bat on campus. (It's a jungle out there - literally!)
34) ..you have argued about what day of the week yeilds the prettiest sunrise.
35) ..you are amused by the workings of the "do-nothing."
36) ..you have been forced to learn the workings of the alarm system at the architecture building.
37) ..you have band-aid stains that won't go away on your hands, fingers and arms.
38) ..you realize exacto knives are a necessary evil.
39) ..you have ever fallen asleep with wet hair and had wet hair when you woke up to go to your first class.
40) ..you understand that the architecure building doubles as a dormitory.
41) ..you notice yourself skipping things, such as Physics, and lunch...and supper.
42) ..you wash your hair in the studio bathroom sink.
43) ..you have ever used up a roll of film photographing a door.
44) ..you know which door of the architecture building you can "pop" open late at night.
45) ..you find the studio phone number next to your name in friends' rolodexes.
46) ..you smell.
47) ..you think trash is artistic.
48) ..your parents, relatives, and friends hate your studio instructors.
49) ..you keep a book on your desk entitled "14000 Things to be Happy About."
50) ..you participate in making lists of things.
51) ..when you speak, it unconciously comes out a long, steady moan.
52) ..you understand someone else speaking this language.
53) ..you've ever done the YMCA hand motions at 3 in the morning without being drunk.
54) ..you've ever danced on a studio break for Mardi Gras beads.
55) ..there is a book on your bookshelf entitled "The 1990s and Beyond."
56) ..you use colored pencils and/or Rapidographs to balance your checkbook.
57) ..you know the waitress at Emerald Coast better than you know your parents.
58) ..when driving, you keep thinking someone is honking at you, even though it's four in the morning and nobody is out except for you.
59) ..you do TERM papers the night before they are due.
60) ..you have friends who aren't in the school of architecture who are worried about the quiz in their sandwich-making class.
61) ..doing laundry requires more than six washing machines and five hours.
62) ..you have perpetual graphite on your face.
63) ..you combine breakfast, lunch, and supper into one BIG meal to save time.
64) ..you don't know anyone who procrastinates more than you (outside of the school of architecture).
65) ..your primary spring break activity was sleeping.
66) ..you've ever had this conversation: "What's wrong..you look rough."..."I'm an architecture major."..."Ohhhh! Sorry I didn't know."
67) ..you have ever been standing outside a building holding a cup and a passer-by threw a quarter in.
68) ..you have the Papa John's number tatooed on your hand.
69) ..you party with your teachers.
70) ..you are constantly thinking up excuses to tell your non-architecture teachers why you didn't get your homework done.
71) ..you have ever chained a chair to a desk.
72) ..you discuss the appearance of the new library addition every time you pass it.
73) ..you have ever hooked up more than three power bars to each other.
74) ..you have ever painted, mangled, lettered on, added hangers to, or discombobulated any part of a telephone what will later be used.
75) ..you have more snapshots of buildings than you have of people.
76) ..you have ever purchased more than $100 worth of plaster.
77) ..you notice yourself repeating things over and over and over and over and over and over and over....
78) ..someone suggested that you were lazy and you almost murdered them.
79) ..pre-med majors feel sorry for you.
80) ..you are thinking of changing your major to pre-med.
81) ..you have ever tried to squeeze sixteen hours of work into five minutes.
82) ..you were ever successful in doing #81.
83) ..you have ever drawn tree-bark magnified 1000X.
84) ..you slapped the snotty witch who said "What is that supposed to be?!?" when you were drawing #83.
85) ..you think Ugly Kid Joe's "Everything About You" was written about the architecture studio.
86) ..you have ever cut your finger off.
87) ..you took a date to the E. Fay Jones lecture.
88) ..you play with baloons, recorders, yo-yo's, and slinkies on a regular basis.
89) ..a flexible curve and a kneadable eraser is all you need for a fun night.
90) ..you didn't know there was a presidential election this year.
91) ..at night, your dreams consist of mostly building models.
92) ..your life is like ten-thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.
93) ..Dr. Greg Salamo has come close to killing you during one if his infamous demonstrations.
94) ..you have ever spent thirty hours on a wood/gesso drawing and then heard your instructors tell you to paint the wood white again.
95) ..you have ever taken any of the following classes to up your GPA: Abstract Sequence, Differential Equations, Advanced Chemestry, Political thought, Philosophical Theory, Microchip Construction/Lab, Survey of the Endoplasmic Reticulum, or New Latin IV.
96) ..you've ever discussed the various shapes of urinals in plan.
97) ..Windex tastes good.
98) ..you've ever misplaced your keys for more than a week and lived just fine.
99) ..you bleed, and the blood that comes out is architecture.
100) ......you want to kill the person who said that.
This is a compiled list that has been circulating throughout the college of architecture here at Texas Tech for a couple of weeks. The statements on this list were completed by a survey of all architecture students, both undergraduates and graduates, and compiled by the Gargoyle Society.
