some problems of an Architecture student

- having hair too long for model building (keep cutting the ends when I lean over!) yet too short to tie it up. the brown stuff in my model, it ain’t foliage. Entschuldigung.

- when studio closes unexpectedly before I even get there, now I can’t print. or, if I were to finish my model, go drop it off and avoid the dangerous rush hour hecticness (more on that later)

- taking a really long time to type not-that-good-sentences due to sleep deprivation and doing CAD for 36 hours almost non-stop

- seeing the sun, outside, while you do CAD, inside

- material store being closed on Sundays. Normal people go to brunch and the park on Sunday. Not the case.

- there’s a red stain on your bristol board.. yet you’re not bleeding

- vitamin D deprivation and general malnourishment during the week (or weeks, depending) prior to a final crit

- having your model fall apart when you take off the tape/prongs you were using to hold it up while it dries (or! even worse! see below)

- realize that the piece of shit material you bought with your lunch money is very against staying up straight. so the whole thing tips over, still glued, or curves, or warps. so your model that was supposed to be a tower now looks like a worm emerging from the depths below and now have to do it over, with tomorrow’s lunch money

oh the love for life! :) lalala

15

April

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I just e-mailed my professor

and noted as I wrapped up my thoughts

I hope you understand my 2am-Friday-night rambling.

Have a swell weekend!

(because I clearly won’t, so the exclamation mark added is symbolic of the huge F.U. I actually want to write)

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April

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to cap off a week of success and awesomeness

last night I deleted half a semester worth of files in a sleepy attempt to clean up my desktop, empty up my comp’s trash in order to get revit to work faster so I could finish the model I had been working on all day. I should not be allowed to work past 2 am, seriously. I deleted more than 24 hours of work and have not been able to recover them :(

And since this week is such a shit show, I’ll most likely have to do studio work in Vienna. Hoorah.

03

April

#personal #architorture

what I want to do right now: watch Basquiat (or Amelie) while eating take-out of questionable culinary merit and feel, hell, think nothing

what I’m actually doing: about to go into my 9th hour of computer modeling. Do you think it looks like I’ve spent 9 hours on it? of course not. It looks like a freshman made it. Not even an Architecture major, like a business major freshman grabbed sketch up and decided to make a model. gross

FML FML FML FML

02

April

#architorture #personal #fml

I know I’m on my third year, and I should know this but…

SketchUp-ers of the world, how the hell do I get my CAD file to import to freaking scale? My SketchUp keeps crashing whenever I try to scale it and I’m about to have a nervous breakdown. I’m only doing massing, imagine when I get to fine detailing! AAAAHHH

This is why 3D models are the devil. Maybe I’ll just do a normal model and deal with it. bah

31

March

#Frustration #Personal #SketchUp #Architecture #Architorture