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art school clues♣

April 3, 2010 / 12:29 PM

There are just some things about going to art school that stand out when you and your friends from home are catching up. Here’s a couple.

You Know You Go To Art School When…

1) You’re awful at math, but that seems to be the norm.

2) You have at least 4 roles of tape. They are all completely different, and they all serve completely different functions.

3) The naked person in your classroom does not arouse or disgust you because you’re too busy trying to get an ‘A’ in the class.

4) Your professors do not give A’s because (and they drill it into your head) you are not Da Vinci, Spielberg, or Tom Cruise.

5) It’s Halloween for AT LEAST two people on your campus every week.

6) You opt not to buy the $40.00 pad of paper because you think it’s too cheap.

7) You and all of your peers know at least seven times as many colors as your friends back home.

8) You’ve been yelled at, or you’ve witnessed someone being scolded for calling violet purple.

9) You know the difference between violet and purple.

10) After looking at the 12 different shades of red acrylic paint in Michael’s, you feel it is more than necessary to complain loudly because they do not have the one you need.

11) #10 is the exact reason why you drive several hours to find a Blick.

12) Playing with clay is more stressful than fun these days.

13) You’ve pulled an all-nighter on a project and still could not see any progress in the morning.

14) You’ve exploded at your friends for belittling the amount of work you receive.

15) The man that you thought was a woman at the beginning of the year isn’t so bad- in fact, you guys are friends.

16) Your friends from home do not understand #14 in the slightest.

17) Everybody fits in. Period.

18) You know everyone in the copyshop, customers included.

19) The people you go to school with do not ask you to draw anything for them.

20) People are ALWAYS shooting independent films.

21) Despite your best efforts, you still mange to get charcoal on you every other day, and you don’t even have a class in which you use charcoal.

22) Your campus has run out of weed at least once, and it was a terrible, terrible weekend for everybody.

23) Your professor is an (insert bad word), but he is excused because he worked on Family Guy.

24) You know that there is a right way and a wrong way to use rubber cement.

25) The lamp you built out of sticks and paper is still in use.

26) The closest coffee shop to campus is open 24 hours and makes more money in a day than the president makes in a year.

27) You know how to pronounce gouache.

28) You go through empty classrooms on Saturdays when you’re low on drawing materials.

29) You know 1 person who knows more directors than actors, and you know 1 person who knows more animators than Hollywood celebrities.

30) You don’t know what it is, but something in the air tells you when America’s Next Top Model is on.

31) You are not the only person (anymore) who has read the Harry Potter books multiple times. In fact, every other person you know has read at least six of them six times.

32) The date July 21, 2007 is significant to you.

33) You have sat in a classroom and discussed, in great detail, the significance of an ad in which a black horse is a white horse.

34) You can’t show your sketchbook to anyone under 18 or over 60.

35) Weed is easier to obtain than alcohol.

36) Aderoll is easier to obtain than weed, in fact, some just walked past your dormroom.

37) Out of the 20 people in your class, 16 of them are Agnostic, and one of them has been wearing the exact same pair of shorts for 6 weeks straight.

38) When you are verbally assualted for not seeing The Rocky Horrow Picture Show or Edward Scissorhands.

39) If you have ever waited in a bookstore line for 2 hours to buy $200.00 worth of supplies, and still don’t have your books yet.

40) If you cringe when you see people take pictures ‘the wrong way’ or with a camera less than 5 megapixels.

41) The Nightmare Before Christmas is a lifestyle choice.

42) You make the last bit of toothpaste last because you have to buy a tube of paint instead.

43) You can easily point out at least 3 different types of columns to your friends- and even name famous places where they are used, but you get lost when conversation turns to the Greek System.

44) You notice that the circles under your eyes aren’t black, but the color you get when you mix neutral gray #3 and verdigris.

45) You write notes and phone numbers on ‘scrap’ bristol board.

46) You steal fruit from the cafeteria, not to eat, but to draw for your Still Life assignment.

47) Your school’s only reason for not allowing alcohol on campus is because they don’t want you operating their machinery & equipment with a hangover.

48) Your favorite comics haven’t even been published in hard copy.

49) Your textbooks are full of pictures.

50) Your partial scholarship package is enough to cover all costs of a traditional school- and perhaps buy a half decent car or home.

51) You have- or you’ve considered paying a homeless person to model for you.

52) You develop carpal tunnel over the course of one assignment.

53) Your professor takes smoke-breaks with you.

54) Your professors swear by Wikipedia.

55) You know how to pronounce Chiaroscuro.

56) You have been so desensitized that seeing a slip n slide used with jello doesn’t disturb you in the slightest.

57) You know the difference between magenta and cyan.

58) What movie magic?

59) Your X-acto knife officially replaces your scissors to open common things.

60) Something in your room has been used in a student film or photo shoot.

61) There’s a pack of cigarettes in your pocket or close at hand.

62) You have trouble respecting your friends back home because of the garbage they go to the movies to see.

63) Your friends back home don’t invite you to the movies.

64) Sitting in a circle of chemistry, pre-law, and accounting majors is awkward.

65) You don’t care because you know where to get opium from.

Okay, I definitely did not write this but some of the stuff written made me laugh, and got me thinking on a load of things. I found this on someone's tumblr while roaming aimlessly, and ended up here. I for one know that I never intend to smoke, haha. and that I should get more familiar with my colours, because I seriously don't know what's the difference between magenta and cyan. but the textbook thing is true, and so are a few others. I don't really understand what they mean when they say that professors swear by Wikipedia. It's kind of odd. oh well.