College WAR Stories!! (Computer ones only)

For those of you that are in/graduated college, or really anyone i suppose, i want to hear some crazy things you had to do to finish a program.

I'll start with one of my worst situations, although i think there are even worse ones:



In my sophmore year I needed to finish a program and, of course, being the typical programmer I was (although I doubt i'm much smarter now) I waited to the last minute to finish an assembly language project due the next day at 10am. So I started it around 7:45pm..went out with my girlfriend to eat, came back, drank coffee, got sidetracked..Put a little extra work in at 9:30..and became extremely confused. After a while of reading/programming, I started getting tired so I went for more coffee..Then after putting more work in, and getting nowhere, I took 2 caffeine pills and kept coding.. :huh: Around 4:00am I got more coffee (so far i was up to 3 large cups of coffee and 2 caffeine pills) and when I came back I continued to code. After a while I recall crashing on my bed for who knows how long..And my girlfriend woke me up. I went back to coding at 8:30am and went all the way to 9:30am and finished it!! I had to tar gzip it all nice and neat and email it to our TA in a formatted email, which I finally accomplished in my tired state maybe 5-10 minutes later. :D
Passing out, exhausted, I woke up a couple hours later to go to class.


So what about everyone else?

Yeah, something like that happen to me almost everytime! ;)
Some day, I remember, I had to mail one program to my teacher and I got to make it from my college, using the FTP system of the intranet... I got to mail it before 9:30 p.m. (time when the college close...). I arrived in the PCs classroom when I realized that I forgot one thing in the program! :whoops: I downloaded a C compiler and began to work desperately! Finally, I finished it and sent it. It was 9:45 aprox. I went out and when I was about to get outside by the door... IT WAS CLOSED!! I began to run from one place to another and nobody appeared! Jesus! I thought I had to pass the night inside the college. But I also thought that I could jump the door and get outside easily... So I began to climb up the door when I heared a voice SHOUTING me! It was the night security man that was very surprised seeing a young man jumping OUT carrying a bag, folders, etc.
He opened me the door and let me out nicely! :)
It's almost unbeliveable that the college gets locked and a student can be inside one classroom! :confused:

I remember one time in college, there was a group of us (4 to be exact) that knew more than the rest of the class about computers (not our words, other people in the class argued this point with us, we didn't want to be labeld this way, knowing it would mean people would come to us for help...and they always did). When the teachers asked us to pair up, or group up, we always teamed up. One time, we had a new teacher, in our programming class the teacher asked us to group up into fours. Well the four of us quickly formed our group (we all sat near each other like this :: back to back and side to side, so this made grouping easier). The new teacher did not know we did this all the time. The rest of the class however did. As soon as we grouped up for this project (was the first day of the semester, but she told u s it would be our final, so everyone knew it would be an important grade/project) the class moaned in dissaproval. One girl stood up and pointed at us saying, "That's not fair!"
To which the teacher replied, "What's not fair?"
"Thay. Them four pairing up."
"Why?"
"They always pair up. They are the smartest in the class. Make them split up Each group should have one of them!" (one of them, as if we are calculators to be passed around)
We laughed and so did the teacher, but some of the people in the room actually agreed with her, and were saying things like "yeah, we all should get one of them." We thought it was downright hilarious, and almost lost it.
The teacher said that it was ok for us to group up for this one, since it was an important one (ended up being over half the grade for that class) she understood why we would want to be together. She did say though, that she wanted to see us teaming up with other people for other projects, which we did.

Hah! In my college days, we couldn't "e-mail" the prof, why we had to turn in a printout on big green-and-white sheets with sprocket holes in 'em, and a box or two of punched cards, one statement to a card (in those days "vertical whitespace" would have meant an extra box on a big project, I guess.)

Whippersnappers, keep this up and I'll rise from my wheelchair and hit you with my cane!

I remember one September a teacher walking into my computer class announcing proudly, she went on a new 1 month course and we would do something brand new and interesting this year. We are going to study Turbo PASCAL. I thought “I have been playing around with that since 7 years. This is going to be fun.”

Of course the first thing she writes to the blackboard is wrong. (She forgot the semicolon (;) Mandatory for Pascal)

Me as crude as I was and sometimes still am: “That’s incorrect!”
She: “How so?”
Me “You are missing the semicolon”
She: “Oh is it only that. That’s not an error.”
Me: “This function will not compile…. That means it’s incorrect”
after a few more lines trying to prove my point.
She: “Out of my classroom”

Oh well....

I made up with this teacher and by the end of the month she came Wednesday afternoons to my house to prepare for the next lesson she had to give.

At the end of that year we needed to write a calculator. Nothing much was specified only it needed + - / * and a memory function. So for the last time I decided to impress her and write a graphical scientific calculator.

Until this day I still don’t know how it has happened but at the very first line of my code there was a semicolon missing I got 19/20 for something that wasn’t even an error according to her own words and that from someone I thought everything she knew of programming.. I was ****ed that day.

Hah! In my college days, we couldn't "e-mail" the prof, why we had to turn in a printout on big green-and-white sheets with sprocket holes in 'em, and a box or two of punched cards, one statement to a card (in those days "vertical whitespace" would have meant an extra box on a big project, I guess.)

Whippersnappers, keep this up and I'll rise from my wheelchair and hit you with my cane!

LOL, you really are "DateTimeStamp"ing yourself aren't you :D

I always submitted my stuff the day after it was due, but seems I was lucky enough to still get good grades. Once, though, I put off 75 SQL statements as a term project. This was my very first ever SQL class, and I wasn't a natural. I waited until the last 2 days, and between work and sleep I SQL'd myself into insanity! I managed to get everything done with no time to spare :)

For our Java assignments we have to hand in a zip of the code plus screenshots of the program and it's output etc. But for our assembly assignments we didn't have to hand in the actual program. So of course most people would photochop the output screenshots to display what was needed while the code would behave differently. It seems I was the only one who genuinly would get full marks for those assignments. :(