I can see the light...

The end is near! The semester is almost over! Today is the last Monday! wooohoooo!

Wait.

Hold on...

I've five projects due this week. FIVE. And last week was Thanksgiving (aka, no work getting done). CRAP.

Let the end of the semester festivities begin; class, projects, coffee, no sleep. Let's get this party started!

Who's with me?

I Love Architecture....Even When It Doesn't Love Me Back

Insight from today's review:

Being in Architecture is like being in a bad relationship:
1.Demands all of your time
2. Doesn't let have friends
3. Takes all your money
4. Always tells you that you're wrong
5. Likes to beat you up and make you feel worthless

"I can't talk to you. I'm having a nervous breakdown."-Ashley

"We were a little behind on our plans. YOU kept changing our plan, actually." -Sarah to the prof, who didn't respond

"I'm glad we took this trip." -Betsy on going back to the same design she had 2 weeks ago

"Another question is: how do these stand up?" -Verdy

"In order to communicate, you have to step out of your own brain and into someone else's for a while" -Lena on why professors never know whats going on

"Architecture: What a great fucking concept." -Liz

And thats what review is like kids. One piece of advice for anyone out there looking to study architecture: If you like to sleep, you won't like architecture.

-Sam

Prelim Review Day

Review days are a funny thing.

You're stressed out and worried about what your professor is going to say, how much they're going to hate your review, and how long it is going to take them to break the model you slaved over for days.

Yet at the same time, you've reached this point of, "I just don't care anymore." Yep, I admit it, I just don't care.

This is especially the case with Friday reviews. Seriously, you want us to sit here until 6PM on Friday? Really? Who's bright (or much more so, dim in terms of the person who thought it up) idea was this?

Nope, I've checked out. I'm ready for my Saturday and my first day in like, a month, that I'm going to be able to sleep in.

I miss having a professor who knows how to help us further our design rather than make us stall to where progress is impossible. [insert gigantic sigh]

ANYWAYS. Back to the idea of a review.

Yes, we sit hear, listen to our classmates talk about their projects to the professor[s], when you already know everything they're saying, because, after all, you do live with your studio mates. You see them more than your actual roommates or family, how could you not know about their projects? Yep, so everyone sits there, tired, irritated, and wanting to go home.

The definition of productivity, right?

-Joy

George Hughes

"You might as well call transverse sections Verderber sections...It sounds like a really cool
drawing."

-Sam

I. Want. This.

Let's be honest, who doesn't like a good, old fashioned swing?

But this, THIS makes swinging hip, elegant, mature.

Seriously, I could do this with a wine glass in my hand and look totally happenin'.

(http://www.homedesignfind.com/gardening-outdoor/amazonas-globo-swing-seat/)

*SIGH* Maybe one day when I'm a rich and famous architect, I can add to the population of my yard with this little treasure.

-Joy

Quotes That Mean Much More Than They Should:

"All you have to do is just be perfect. It's not that hard" -George Hughes (who doesn't actually exist)

"If I see clowns or barricudas, ya blew it" -Prof. Silance

"We've a lot of evil spirits in Christianity. I've got to keep them at bay with a pagan device" -Prof. Bruhns on Gargoyles

"Keep those eyebrows raised" -Prof. Parsons

"It feels like it wants to be sewn" -Bo

"I don't like that nickname. I don't want to be called that." -Verdy
"What nickname?" -studiokid
"I don't like that!"-Verdy

Ariel trips over chair. "Oh, I'm sorry! Excuse me!"

"You know how we do" -random middleschooler

"BUT THERE'S SO MUCH WORK TO DO!" -random cry from the sophomore studio

"That's why they filled in Lake Hartwell, because of the zombie apocalypse" -P.L.

"I'm bleeding! I GOT BLOOD ON MY PROJECT!!!!" -pretty much everyone in studio.

-Ashley

Studio Makes You Crazy

Studio makes you crazy. No one will believe this statement until they experience sitting in studio for four hours a day with a professor who walks in and out randomly. Everyone is studio is weirdly close to each other because we bond in the craziness. You also spend a lot of time discussing your future, which never looks very bright. Mostly, you prepare to live in a cardboard box beside the freeway.

-Sam

Eventually you reach this point

There's a particular point in a project that you reach, where, you feel like you're far enough ahead and so you don't do any work.

Don't fall into this architectural demon trap. No matter how far ahead you are on a project, you won't be finished early. Or even most likely on time. One of several things may happen:

1. Your professor will suddenly decide he hates your project two days before it is due and make you change it all (despite the fact that everything you'd done up to this point was exactly what he told you to do.)
2. All of the architecture supply stores within a 45 minute radius will be out of the material you need for your model.
3. Your computer will crash. (seriously, if you haven't learned that your computer will crash repeatedly during your architecture education, you will. Or if it has never happened to you, tell me your secret. PLEASE.)
4. The plotter/laser cutter/CNC router/ whatever other massive, over priced machinery you require for your final presentation will break upon your turn to use it. It will also be mysteriously fixed upon completing your project.
5. Someone in your family (possibly you) will go to the emergency room the night before your project is due.

So, I warn you now, so long as you are in architecture school...

NEVER, EVER, EVER THINK YOU ARE AHEAD DURING A PROJECT AND DECIDE TO TAKE A BREAK.

It will backfire.

- - Joy