Today was folio submission. Which means that after my exam on the 18th I am FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I don't think the feeling you get after signing in your folio, and knowing that you no longer have to look at the project you've been slaving over for weeks, can be matched by many other things.
Was surprisingly organised this folio (as compared to S2 last year, where I pulled successive all nighters was not finished until midday of folio day). This time I had pretty much finished 24 hours before and got about 5-6 hours of sleep every night of folio week, which is pretty impressive. Was actually unsettling and felt extremely unnatural to finish early. Spent the morning at the library waiting for the 3pm deadline to come around. Felt like I needed to be working so touched up some of my hand renders.
While it was not as stressful as past experiences, that's not to say I wasn't working hard from when I woke up to when I went to bed...and my arm/back muscles are still aching from model making and being hunched over my desk. (know I'll pay for this in later years)
When we submitted, my coordinator got us to run her through the folio, as I was going through the pages I noticed the top of my bra was a little exposed, so pulled my singlet up. It still didn't feel right though and I realised it had become unhooked at the back (wth?). So I continued through the folio, then went back to my friends and casually dropped a brb and went to adjust myself in the bathroom. Found this to be slightly hilar. Could have been awkward if it had been more obvious, but whatevs.
Enjoyed some free cake (free post-folio afternoon tea is customary) sampled some carrot cake, weird berry/cream cake (don't even know why I picked this up, because I don't like cream - it did look appealing though), orange cake and chocolate cake. Felt sick after the first one, but kept going, because if FREE cake is around, you KNOW I'm going to take advantage of that shiz. Meanwhile half of the faculty was outside on the lawn getting drunk, with music blaring. Not really my scene (coolest kid out) so I headed to le bus to go home.
In other news I recently came across this:
http://architortureschool.tumblr.com/
I find most of it pretty amusing and accurate. If you ever wanted to know what life as an architecture student is like, this provides a pretty good idea. So much of it really resonates with me - if I haven't experienced it/can't relate to it, I know people who have/can.
After I clean my room tomorrow and get some things sorted, I actually don't know what I'm going to do with all this free time I have on my hands. Think it'll feel bizarre not to be doing architecture projects every waking hour of the day. So keen to relax, though I'll probably get bored in two days.
All for now.
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