i was up all night doing a power point prestentaion on no doubt. i now need sleep but if i go to sleep i will miss my class,beacuse i wont wake up.

A Power Point presentation on "No Doubt"?
The band !?!

What kind of degree are you after - a BA in Pop Culture?
I sure hope it isn't music because we are i trouble if it is...

Mind you, I like "No Doubt", but there isn't enough to analyze of Gwen for an actual presentation.

its for some dumb comp science class. i had to do a bio on someone , so i picked her. my major is digital media productons ba in science.

I feel for you. I know how it can be to stay up all night studying - I often did it right before my finals! As many of us did I am sure...

Originally posted by Qhris
I feel for you. I know how it can be to stay up all night studying - I often did it right before my finals! As many of us did I am sure...

I remember many a time. Of course, in those days there was no chat or BBS as a distraction. Throughout the entire campus (Berzerkly) there were a handful of 1k modems connecting remote TTYs to a central computer that were mainly used just to prove you could connect remotely for obscure computer science classes. "I wish those days could come back once more" (Stevie Wonder)

I remember many a time. Of course, in those days there was no chat or BBS as a distraction. Throughout the entire campus (Berzerkly) there were a handful of 1k modems connecting remote TTYs to a central computer that were mainly used just to prove you could connect remotely for obscure computer science classes. "I wish those days could come back once more" (Stevie Wonder)

True. True.

I can't say that I wish for those days again however; I'd be without my favorite toys: my 17" Powerbook and RX-8! :D

i feel you. i was up on sunday night writing a paper until 6am that was due at 8:10. I also have finals next week, my first, which should be interesting. Paleoanthropology, physics and medievil history. good fun.

Ahh, the good old days. One of the great pleasures of being advanced in life is no more finals week! Just make sure before your history final you know how to spell "medieval." ;-)

Dude, I hope you made it.

Staying up to complete the all-nighter when you're that close is the only way to go. If you try to get 1 or 2 hours of sleep before you have to leave, you'll only risk 1) sleeping though it, and 2) feeling worse than if you'd actually stayed up.

I had to pull an all-nighter recently to finish a project.

Mountain Dew and lots of water were my friends. :) The Dew for the sugar and caffeine, the water to keep the Dew from dehydrating you (which will make you feel more tired than anything).

Plus, it's hard to fall asleep on a full bladder anyway, so the Dew + Water combo ensure's that your bladder stays full. :D

yeah staying up late really hurts... i used to do it all the time.. now that I am a working man I can't stay up past 11!

Some suggestions.. try to get a good amount of sleep before a test.. I used to not sleep and cram all night but I found getting that good nights sleep its worth it for taking tests..

Second coffee is your friend but she can be a harsh lover if you drink too much of it.. Caffenie headaches are not something you want to have.. moutain dew was also a staple in the apartment.. :)

Finally start earlier!!! haha.. my dad used to tell me that all the time.. I never really followed his advice, but every time I had to stay up late I wished I had started earlier..

Good Luck with finals and projects.. and for any engineers out there.. remember to keep your units.. stupid english system... (I almost failed a test when I mixed metric and english units)

i miss finals... i d rather study for a final right now then work full time. college wus soooo much more fun..

Been a while since I took an exam, but I often pull all nighters when I am getting ready for trial.....nothing worse then giving an opening statement half asleep, or having to sit through one..ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

i just emailed my take-home latin final so that means i'm officially done for this semester, yay!

Take-home final??? My how things have changed! I remember finals that were administered under the watchful and lazy eye of Dr. XYZ.... IF you even thought about something other than the final he knew about it!

Secret Formula called "wake up juice" here goes the recipie....

Boil water, dump in cofee mix (use your own discretion) let boil for 10-20 mins so that the water boils out leaving a high concentration coffee. pour coffee into a blender and toss in a candy bar such as butterfinger or milkyway (noting with nuts unless you want nutty coffee) pour blended contents into a tall glass 3/4 of the way. pour in coke the other 1/4. Enjoy.. the world will seem like its shaking but its not.. its just you...

Originally posted by 8_wannabe
I remember many a time. Of course, in those days there was no chat or BBS as a distraction. Throughout the entire campus (Berzerkly) there were a handful of 1k modems connecting remote TTYs to a central computer that were mainly used just to prove you could connect remotely for obscure computer science classes. "I wish those days could come back once more" (Stevie Wonder)

Teletypes at 110 baud, and paper-tape. Great stuff.

Oh yeah, batch processing; boxes of Hollerith cards. You had to get through that class (FORTRAN) as a freshman to even get on the UNIX machines for REAL CS classes. YOu would run your cards through, go into town for a Giant Burger, come back to see if your printout was here yet, showing a syntax error in line 3 so you could debug and go through the whole process again. I ate many a Giant Burger going through this drill. This was Berkeley in the early 80s.

The only way to speed up the process was go down there about 2:00 am, and you'd get your printout in maybe 10-15 minutes vice 2 hours. So I have little sympathy to whiny little "I have finals this week." I put up with this stuff continuously for 4 years. Plus had to walk 6 miles in the snow, barefoot, just get there. ;-) But I did love that wakeup recipe; what a kick in the ass. What do you think it would do to a 45-yr-old? I shudder to think about it.

btw, for those unfamiliar with the antiquated term, "baud" equated roughly to "character per second." (it actually means byte per sec, but a character normally was one byte or 8 bits.) Image loading all the words on this web page at 110 characters per second. And that doesn't include the graphics; there was no concept then to even deal with that. You would sit there and watch the letters one-by-one, draw on the screen. Back to Giant Burger!

"Baud?" Wow! Now there's a word I haven'theard in a long time. The last time I used that word, I recall the television remote control being tethered to the television by a six-foot long cable! In additon, CRTs only came with green or white letters on black backgrounds and dot-matrix printers were a luxury item!

Originally posted by 8_wannabe
btw, for those unfamiliar with the antiquated term, "baud" equated roughly to "character per second." (it actually means byte per sec, but a character normally was one byte or 8 bits.) Image loading all the words on this web page at 110 characters per second. And that doesn't include the graphics; there was no concept then to even deal with that. You would sit there and watch the letters one-by-one, draw on the screen. Back to Giant Burger!

You have to talk to my wife, when we met in collage in the early 80's (stockton state) My wife was doing all of that too, including the @#$% punch cards! The mainframe was in a huge room with two airlock looking doors, and was not even as powerful as a PDA today!!

Anyway, I used to tease her about getting this type of degree, she always said "the world will be one big interconnected computer soon, corperations will take over, and lawyers will be extinct!"

We used to play computer games on her state of the art apple II, I remember one was called "Maniac mansion" I called the hint line and talked to as real live person once!

We did not have giant burgers, we would get "sliders" from white castle.


She went on to get her masters, the only white in the class, and one of two women in a class of about 25, taught by asian professors who did not speak english all that well.

Anyway, now she works for the FAA, doing something with their computers. They pay her well, and she is happy.

I am always looking over my shoulder for the bullet.

Wise woman, my wife.

You know, now I feel really old.

Originally posted by 8_wannabe
Oh yeah, batch processing; boxes of Hollerith cards. You had to get through that class (FORTRAN) as a freshman to even get on the UNIX machines for REAL CS classes. YOu would run your cards through, go into town for a Giant Burger, come back to see if your printout was here yet, showing a syntax error in line 3 so you could debug and go through the whole process again. I ate many a Giant Burger going through this drill. This was Berkeley in the early 80s.

The only way to speed up the process was go down there about 2:00 am, and you'd get your printout in maybe 10-15 minutes vice 2 hours. So I have little sympathy to whiny little "I have finals this week." I put up with this stuff continuously for 4 years. Plus had to walk 6 miles in the snow, barefoot, just get there. ;-) But I did love that wakeup recipe; what a kick in the ass. What do you think it would do to a 45-yr-old? I shudder to think about it.

Well, nowadays that technology has progressed passed dumb terminals and crawwwwling connections (the lowest I ever personally experienced was 2400 baud, and that was someone else connecting to my BBS and watching the ANSIs paint, etc), and things are lightning fast, CS students are required to complete certain assignments in one or two weeks that took years for possibly groups of people to research out and develop back in the past :D Of course, we have handy languages, compilers/interpreters, libraries, and examples to refer to thanks to the past, but... :)

I've still yet to pull an all-nighter...in my 5th year currently. I think I broke my own personal record staying up til 2am working on schoolwork. But I've been working 8-5s since the summer before freshman year, so I usually just take some time off work, get up early, and continue working on if I need to. That wouldn't help for a final at 7:30am though :)

Only one final left for me, two papers, and a hard disk scheduling algorithms-simulation program that was due last Thursday night. Good luck to all.

Originally posted by Qhris
"Baud?" Wow! Now there's a word I haven'theard in a long time. The last time I used that word, I recall the television remote control being tethered to the television by a six-foot long cable! In additon, CRTs only came with green or white letters on black backgrounds and dot-matrix printers were a luxury item!

my dad was technologically inclined, so he spliced the cable and ran the remote all the way to his chair. Kids would come to our house just to see it: The TV with remote. It only controlled volume. LOL, you couldn't even change the channel but since there were only like 3 channels (plus some local hokie one) odds were good whatever you wanted to watch you were already on the right channel. But he had us little rugrats as surrogate remotes if he needed the channel changed.

Originally posted by klegg
You have to talk to my wife, when we met in collage in the early 80's (stockton state) My wife was doing all of that too, including the @#$% punch cards! The mainframe was in a huge room with two airlock looking doors, and was not even as powerful as a PDA today!!

Anyway, I used to tease her about getting this type of degree, she always said "the world will be one big interconnected computer soon, corperations will take over, and lawyers will be extinct!"

Wise woman, my wife.

Your wife is wise indeed. Except the part about predicting the demise of lawyers; wouldn't that be an idyllic world: :) (sorry, I know there's lotsa lawyers here. I don't want you to go away, I just want you all to change careers.)

I had no such vision. I chose the CS major cuz a very insightful math teacher arranged for a dumb terminal in my highschool to connect to a computer in Stanford, and all the calculus students got to work on it (there was no computer course per se.) Somehow I learned Basic and wrote a program to analyze conic sections. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that was my very first program. One day I was at the terminal she brought a bunch of VIPs through, i have no idea who, and they were so pleased with what I'd done I decided then, age 17, to major in computers. I did, at Berzerkely, problem was an ROTC scholorship, so I got detoured for a slight 17-year career in the Navy, the last 5 years of which I actually got to use computers (the first 12 I didn't.) Now I'm out in a second career with a computer degree and Navy experience doing pretty damn good. Like I planned all this!

So yes I'm buying my own damn '8, I paid my dues, and mom and dad didn't give me nuttin, including the degree thanx to Navy. And that's why i'm such an old fart goin' off on punks who've had the car for 3 days still living with mom and dad racing Z's in our neighborhoods. But that's a whole nuther rant.