It’s finals week! That means I have gone into “night mode,” because I can not seem to get anything accomplished during the day. I got a 10-page paper due Monday, with about 3 paragraphs written so far. Dining services has kindly provided my house with a box full of junk food, and I plan to drink coffee until the top of my head comes off. Wheeeee!
Caffeine is my god. Do not use it’s name in vain. 
Peace,
mangeorge
Well then be sure to drink plenty of water or else mangeorge’s god will smite you, causing you to do poorly on your finals.
You can do it, kiddo. Despair not. Honestly, a blast from the Jurassic past…I got through my second Masters with an electic typewriter. (Yes, there were PCs; no, I couldn’t afford one.) The BA and MA were done on on a manual typewriter…“white out” was a life saver, 'cause you’d BETTER not mess up a spaced footnote or grammar error.
Take it from the Queen of the Adreneline Paper: it can be done. I cranked out a 20-page paper, first draft through the platen, by candlelight (damned storm) and aced the course on Restoration Drama. It can be done. And no, we (HUGE sigh) were no more diligent or bright. And, yes, we fought sleeplessness, too.
You’ll get it done. Ignore the damned, wimpy PC puling, and don’t sweat the caffeine thing. Get it done however you can. You’ll retain more than you think, if it’s important.
Do whatever you have to do to get through, absorb the essentials and get the credentials. Everything is else is bullshit–save what you learn and apply.
Get through, get some sleep and don’t sweat the small stuff.
DAMN, one of these days I won’t be wordy!
Veb
Don’t worry, I do plan to sleep, just not at night like “normal” folks.
Coffee is my friend.
But Starbucks Espresso Ice Cream is my A-#1 slutty friend.
sob!
We don’t have any Starbucks here! I want a slutty friend like slythe’s got! Waaaaaah!
Geobabe, I hear you!!! I have a paper and annotated bibliography due tomorrow for my writing lab internship, and an art history final worth 40% of my final grade. Luckily, my friend and I went to the campus convenience store, where they have a wonderful caffeine special: any 32-oz. fountain drink + 1 liter of Coke = $1.75. Have you checked any of this out around your campus?
Preach the word, my sister.
With Pharmacology Monday and Pathology Friday, the ol’ Mr. Coffee is getting a workout this week the likes of which it’s never seen. By the end of the week I may very well eliminate the pot, mug, and my mouth from the process and run the auto-drip straight into my veins.
I’m also glad I’m not the only one who goes nocturnal during finals week. In fact, during a study break, I learned that one of our local TV stations shows “Bullwinkle” from 5:30-7:00 AM on Saturday morning. I’ll have to start taping it.
Dr. J
Awwwww, yeeeaahhhhh!
I got up at the crack of noon today. Good to know there are other “nightcrawlers” out there. I get so much more done in the middle of the night sometimes. I couldn’t do it all the time–I worked for the Post Office on the midnight shift for a few months , and it was brutal–but for that week where I have to crank out all the work, night mode is the only way for me. I think it’s because during the day, there are so many distractions, it’s hard to do what I’m supposed to be doing.
And she said the word, and the word was coffee. And it was good. Rock on, brothers and sisters.
Click on the caffeine link at the right.
Caffeinated bliss at reasonable prices… yay! More offbeat weird caffeine than I’ve ever seen!
Wow.
I’m in a bad way if I don’t have a Mountain Dew by 9 a.m. every morning.
A slight hijack here, but the thread was dying.
Okay, I know that I should take in about eight glasses worth of water every day (counting water taken in from foods such as fruit and veggies).
I also know that caffeine is a diuretic, causing me to lose body water.
How many extra glasses of water should I drink per can of Coke?
I think 6 months old qualifies as dead, not dying. But it was kind of interesting to see one of my threads dredged up from the deep.
Yeah, but how’d you do on the finals?
It must be mid-terms now, so reviving a caffeine thread isn’t totally out of line.
Umm, let me think…that was a long time ago, y’know. I did fabulously well in the class I was most into, so I suppose that’s all that matters. The others…well, I’ll still graduate, let’s leave it at that.
It’s not quite midterms for me yet, but caffeine is always a part of my life, exams or no!
Me too. Assuming I’m up by 9 o’clock, which I’m usually not. But I have to have a Dew before noon or I get headaches.