Extreme Super-Time-Savers!!

Was doing models until quite late yesterday because today was interim crit. I think I'm becoming even more hardcore-ly archi now since I displayed one of the symptoms my friend was telling me about: when I accidentally poked my finger with the cutter, the first thing that came to mind was: "Shoot, will I be able to finish the model?!" (Nothing serious though, it was submission paranoia in action.)

Oh well, the purpose of this post is to share archi time-saving tips with the public in general. Of course, Time being an absolutely precious commodity in archi, we learn to save as much of it as possible (to be wasted later on by sleeping like a pig). Here are some of the techniques:

1. If you don't stay on campus, one of the best thing you can do is to stay over night, of course. But be careful, the time you saved in transportation might be wasted by the loss of productivity incurred because you can't sleep well in studio. Be prepared to experiment with sleeping places and positions until you find one that is comfortable. The goal is to approximate the quality of sleep you get at home. Familiarizing yourself with the studio light switches also pays dividends if, like me, you are photo-sensitive.

2. For morning lectures at 9 A.M, bathe just before you sleep and wear nice shirt and pants. Then the next day, wake up at 8.55(when you're sleeping in studio of course, which is just below the lecture theatre), brush your teeth and voila! you're ready for lecture! Having breakfast during lecture helps to shave off some more preparation time. Good thing archi lecturers are so understanding.
Alternatively, a nice jacket with a hood is useful to disguise creased shirts and newly-woken-up hair. After you wake up, wear your jacket and you're ready to roll! (This is my preferred strategy ;p )

3. If Time is really of the essence, bathing just once a day saves between 15 to 30 minutes a day, depending on what kind of bather you are. If Time is REALLY of the essence, follow the footsteps of my senior and don't bathe for 1 or 2 days. I mean, who says we should bathe twice day, rite? Do away with social conventions!

4. Regarding meals, learn from my archi friend who summarized her three daily meals - breakfast, lunch, dinner - into two: "brunch" and "lunner". Further summarization of the 3 meals into just one, "brunner", is possible but not really advisable, since depriving the brain but of sleep and blood sugar equals to slowly committing suicide.

5. If everything else fails, then don't sleep. Hence, you will automatically double your Time, e.g. 1 weeks' deadline becomes 2 weeks, and so on. Admittedly, this most unhelathy strategy is the one that archi students often resort to. Someone should do a scientific research on "The Effects of Sever Sleep Deprivation on Poor Architecture Students".