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A friend of mine sent me one of those "You know you're a(n) [demanding major here] student when..." emails once, and I rediscovered it. So, I think it's STORY TIME!
Her particular email was "You know you're an architecture student when..." with the tag "...just substitute studio with IACC."
Some of them are so relevant, I have stories to go along with them--which I will share now.
1. ...you know the janitors by name.
Craig, Matt, and Roxy. In chronological order. Matt was a student by day, so he usually would come round at night when I was coding. My apologies for the time ITS paid me for sitting there at 2am and bullshitting with the janitor about education and politics.
4. ...someone asks you for your phone number and you give them the studio's.
Actually for me, it was the other way around. If someone asked me for my office number, I'd give them my cell. I didn't really use my office phone much, but as far as Compaq, Apple, and eBay ever knew, I lived at 1320 Albrecht Blvd, Rm #150a. I would rarely ship things to my home address, because God knows when I'd ever be there to sign for it.
12. ...you ask Santa Claus for a studio sleeping bag.
Fortunately, there was a couch in the ACM office, but if it wasn't open... yes, I would sleep under my desk.
14. ...you have 3 or more cups of double shot coffee espressos in one night
To start a new pot of coffee at midnight was not at all uncommon. Neither was finishing it off and brewing another.
17. ...the only sleep you get is in your Gen. Ed. classes.
Technically true, although instead of sleeping in class, I would often just skip the Gen. Ed. class and sleep in one of the aforementioned locations.
23. ...you spend more time in studio than in your own bed.
I spent more time in the IACC than my own apartment. Really.
29. ...you've ever dreamt about your models.
A little too architecture-specific, but I have had dreams in HTML, PHP, and M68k assembly--which was a bitch. Dreaming is a lot of work when you need to worry about TRAP codes and address registers.
35. ...you know all the 24-hour food places in the area.
This is Fargo. We only have one or two. It's more impressive that I had (and still have) most pizza places and chinese take-out places in the phonebook of my cell, and I had memorized when each closed. It's also worth noting that I had more food in the fridge at the office than I did in the fridge at home.
38. ...you consider 3AM an early night.
For a while, I actually went to a polyphasic sleep cycle because it was more convenient.
47. ...the only building on campus with its lights on is your studios'.
The IACC was open 24hrs. Our office was not, but I'd usually fill the printers at 3am--you know, since I was there, and they were empty and all.
48. ...a break consists of moving your car.
Didn't have to. Twice I left my car in the 15-minute parking spaces next to the campus police building... for a day and a half each time. None of NDSU's finest saw fit to ticket my car. Thank you, by the way.
49. ...you receive mail in studio.
The same friend who sent me this email moved to San Diego when she graduated. She wanted to send me a postcard, but didn't have my mailing address, so she just addressed to to me at the IACC. It showed up in my office. This sort of thing happened more than once.
50. ...you say "It's only midnight- I have plenty of time to finish."
At the end of my last semester, I hammered out a neural net for my Simulation Models class just in time to drive to Minneapolis and catch an 11am flight to Florida.
69. ...you use architecture tools to eat.
We made a "Kikoman Cubby" out of floppy disks to hold our soy sauce packets.
95. ...you start using words your instructor uses.
We have an entire wall of the ACM office devoted to quotations by instructors.
"It's intuitively obvious that..."
- JCM III
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