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tonycondon

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you see the funniest thing in the Aerospace Computer Labs at 11:30 on Sunday nights. Seniors with semester projects due this week start to lose their mind. its entertaining, but scary because im going to be there in 6 months...
 
I know what you mean. We have one of the largest library systems in the world here. Part of it is a huge underground facility that houses a lot of reference materials called the Gardner stacks. It's got to be almost a mile long. The various activities down there can be aggravating when you're actually trying to write something.
 
tonycondon said:
you see the funniest thing in the Aerospace Computer Labs at 11:30 on Sunday nights. Seniors with semester projects due this week start to lose their mind. its entertaining, but scary because im going to be there in 6 months...
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Oh, you should see how entertaining it is when you're the guy in charge at the moment and the whole computer lab is running apps off the network (thanks to folks in middle management) and the server crashes. You're in the library, and it's quiet until you suddenly yell "Everybody save RIGHT NOW!" and watch as most of the computers crash before the save.

Yes, I was that unlucky guy. Yes, that happened more than once. Yes, during finals week. Yes, some poor sap had been typing at the computer on his Master's thesis for a day and a half nonstop without ever saving... :eek:
 
tonycondon said:
you see the funniest thing in the Aerospace Computer Labs at 11:30 on Sunday nights. Seniors with semester projects due this week start to lose their mind. its entertaining, but scary because im going to be there in 6 months...
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At one point in my Sr. year I realized that I had not left the engineering building in 5 days. I had been bathing in the sinks of the bathroom ans sleeping on the couch in the lounge. For food I had survived off of the vending machines. I caught a look of myself in the mirror one day and realized that I had turned into one of those lab geeks. I promptly went home, showered, shaved, ate a real meal, talked to a girl, and became human again. I did not watch Star Trek for a week either!!
 
@run FORSI

the dreaded nested do loop

invalid hollerith statement

all external jobs terminated at 3am to allow for campus payroll to execute

That's about all I remember of the Computer Center when I was taking reactor kinetics my senior year...
 
tonycondon said:
you see the funniest thing in the Aerospace Computer Labs at 11:30 on Sunday nights. Seniors with semester projects due this week start to lose their mind. its entertaining, but scary because im going to be there in 6 months...
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Come on, Tony, be real. You know you'll get some awesome charter job taking the Swedish bikini team to the Bahamas for the week of dead week and you won't be able to freak out in the lab until NEXT Sunday (before finals). ;)
 
doubt it chris. this is week is my finals week. by friday ill be losing my mind in the computer labs...
 
You can do it, if I made it there is no doubt you will do the same but better! Good luck on all those finals and I suspect Chris is right, you will get into some sort of aviation gig that will cramp your studies but you will pull through like always.
 
I've been very lucky this semester. I panicked throughout the whole semester on huge group projects, thankfully those were presented and finished about 3 weeks ago so I'm off scott free with one final left!

There are advantages to finals week though. All the pancakes you can eat from 10pm-1am. Odd hours but hey, free food!
 
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I've been very lucky this semester. I panicked throughout the whole semester on huge group projects, QUOTE]

God, I hate group projects... seems you're the one who ends up doing all the work! I'm told the "reason" for them is learning to work with others towards a common goal... I guess learning that others aren't going to pull their equal share of the project is part of that learning experience too.

Group projects are even tougher when you take some online course (University of Phoenix, for example)... you are trying to coordinate across TIME ZONES for all folks to be available...
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Back in the old days (c. 1974), I was the computer operator and we used PUNCH CARDS to run jobs. Nothing made quite a mess as 2,000 punch cards in a 52-scatter BEFORE they were read into the system.
I had a few face to face with seniors that day!
 
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