The perks of being a Design Student

Hello little sunshines! Today it's February 8 and...

Wait, WHAT?!

Excuse me, but where has January gone exactly?!
I mean, it feels like yesterday when I had the second physics test, and then the third, and had to send in the 6th render, and then the 7th, and then the 8th, and then... Oh, I see.

Let's start again then.

Hello people, today it's February 8 and the world sucks.

Ok, maybe it doesn't, but being a design student probably does. Ok, it doesn't.
Just a bit maybe.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE doing what I'm doing, but the thing is, most of my friends are studying in other fields and yet, no matter how hard a time they say to be having, they still seem to have a pretty decent life besides Uni - DISCLAIMER: I am absolutely NOT denigrating other study fields.

Now, I know this may seem overstating, but being a design student leaves you with little to no life at all, especially if you decide to take a part time job too.
It's not that we have loads of stuff to properly study - even though I'm surrounded by History of art books at the moment - the real problem is the incredible amount of time it takes to "complete" projects, which in reality you never truly complete, as any design/architecture student will confirm.

Unluckily, projects are what we choose this field for - masochists  - so we can't really blame them, that's why I blame 3ds Max instead. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's actually Satan in it's 3D graphics software from, almost.

To give you guys an idea, here's a list of things you can do while waiting for your final render to be done:

1) Get your nails perfectly shaped and polished like in those cool tutorials.

2) Order a pizza.

3) Eat a pizza.

4) Have a long and meaningful conversation with your parents on FaceTime about how beautiful your kitty is.

5) Google Stephen Merchant on YouTube.

6) Laugh your butt off because of his lip sync battle with Jimmy Fallon.

7) Start thinking about all the songs you'd totally nail if you were to lip sync them.

FML.

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Things I (one day) will tell my nephews

I don't know why, but I've been noticing that grandmothers have this incredible ability to know literally everything that happens with you, and, most of them, to have experienced all the possible experiences.

I,too, want to be one of those cool grandmothers, so that's why, after only 19 years and a good half, I've collected a discrete amount of what in italian I would call "figure di merda", which in english would be " times I acted like a fool", though it's much better in italian #sorrynotsorry, and I seriously can not wait to tell them all to my hypothetical future (un)lucky nephews.

Please don't judge me.


N. 1- I've lost a tampon in the forest/beach (difficult to separate them) during a party in Norway and I went to the ambulance asking for a new one. They all started laughing and gave me a pack of toilet paper instead.

N. 2- After a night spent drinking wine, I threw up on my bedclothes and kept it there for one week, because I didn't dare tell my parents. Eventually I told my mum and she and my dad laughed at me for days afterwards.

N. 3- Conversation with my Norwegian family: "You know what they say, <When you drop a fork on the floor, a man is knocking at the door>!" Me: "Is he nice?"

N. 4- I got really drunk in Amsterdam and woke up with a barricade in my room made by my friends to keep "someone" outside - not going to say anything more about this. We had to take the plane back home the day after and threw up every now and then on the way from the hotel to the airport.

N. 5- In Cambridge, me and my friends greeted the police officer with a tea cup full of vodka and asked him to take a picture with us. He didn't notice the alcohol and took the picture.

N. 6- I got out one day in the middle of the night and called my friend to go "catch" the Northern Lights, and got lost somewhere in the forest, with the sound of the mooses and my friend swearing in the background.

N. 7- One month after I moved to Milan, I got really drunk and threw up in the tram.

N. 8- I jumped off the trampoline in the pool and found out just once I was in the water that I had lost the upper part of my bikini.

N. 9- I almost burned down the whole kitchen while trying to cook some spinaches. Literally.

N. 10- I managed to set my hair drier on fire a couple of times.

And, last but not least, my hair was once like this:

That's not all,but I've ashamed myself enough for today. I'll probably make a part two one day.

Once again, please don't judge me.

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Welcome to Milano

Surprise, surprise : I live in Milan(o) now.
Ok, it's not that a big deal, though it surely enough brought quite a few changes in my life.

First of all, I'm not living with my parents any longer (again), YAY! Welcome adulthood. Just kidding, I must admit I kind of miss them every now and then, especially when I'm having "troubles" with my new flatmates (not that we argue that much tbh). Yes, I do live with other three girls I'd never met before and yes, we do have problems sharing a f*@#ing small bathroom, but "that's just the way it is".

Second of all, I've finally started going to the University, and God, I'd never thought Interior Design would involve such a lot of stress! Nor that its materials would be THAT expansive, I guess I may have just found out why a designed armchair can cost up to many hundred euros!
Jokes aside, I do really love my faculty and its laboratories, especially Models lab, which I still haven't had the pleasure to use, but for which we had to take an enabling test (nothing too difficult indeed),and the people in my course are just amazing: I've known them for only a couple weeks and I already am in love with most of them.

Nevertheless, I'm probably going in Lithuania for one week next month for a workshop between my school, PoliMi, and Vilnius' Design School. I'll let you guys know what will come out of this for sure.

Actually, moving to Milan hasn't changed my daily routine only, but also, and most importantly, the perspective I have/had of my future. Don't get me wrong, I still don't know 100%  what I'll make of myself in these next years, but I do know, more or less, which way I'm going and, I'll be honest, it is an amazing way indeed.

I'll go to sleep now, since I'm feeling like crap and I unfortunately have 9h lab tomorrow, I'll be writing soon, I hope.

Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6-EUSvJchI

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