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5] Once you leave architecture school not everybody cares about architecture or wants to talk about it.

6] All eating habits and diets acquired during school should be jettisoned.

7] The hygiene habits you kept in architecture school are inappropriate for real life; bathe regularly and change your underwear.

8] The rush and exhilaration you experience in studio may be inversely proportional to how much you will enjoy working for a firm.

9] It’s architecture, not medicine. You can take a break and no one will die.

14] Go home to your family..

16] If you are working overtime, the firm buys dinner.*
*Contingent on office policies, of course.

23] At times respect and civility seem to be scarce commodities in architecture.

28] Your boss reads your blog.

30] There are no architectural emergencies that should make you completely give up your life on the outside.
That may have been the ethos in studio, but don’t carry it into the office.

31] Be suspicious if your firm expects you to work long hours of overtime for no compensation.
Be doubly suspicious if they justify it by saying things like,
“It’s just part of the learning curve” or “We had to go through this, too.”

34] Don’t dress like an intern. See 72.

36] Expect to be regarded with suspicion if your undergraduate degree is not in architecture.

40] If a principal of a firm sees making coffee or moving boxes as beneath him/her,
consider looking for another office.

41] If a principal doesn’t say good morning when you say good morning to him/her,
consider looking for another office.

49] If you are an architect you should automatically qualify for psychotherapy and medication.

50] Most architects believe they were destined to become architects because of their early childhood experiences.
They showed signs of architectural greatness at a very young age.
This is a myth that reinforces an unhealthy hero complex. See 49.

55] Read books with words, not just pictures.

58] Do not date an architect unless you are certain he/she is able to maintain a healthy life outside of architecture. See 49.

59] Architects should not intermarry. Inbreeding is not good for the gene pool. See 49.

62] Architects who do not build things also have important things to say and should be listened to.

69] Keep in touch with everyone you know, especially if they aren’t in architecture.

70] In fact, make friends who are not architects.

72] Make sure your jeans are up-to-date. No acid-wash. No baggy.

75] Expect a period of post-traumatic stress disorder after you graduate. Do not make any important decisions during this time.

90] In one’s life there are a finite number of all-nighters one can pull. You probably used them all up in school.

99] Many architects do not live in houses designed by themselves or other architects.

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http://www.archdaily.com/93786/the-indicator-101-things-i-didnt-learn-in-architecture-school/