The programming fuels
12 May
Some students at the IT-University never seem to run out of energy. They’re fully charged from early morning to late at night and work like there was no tomorrow. You imagine that most of them are busy chatting, as you notice the sound of high-speed typing fingers. They can’t be working… seriously. And it’s not that astonishing to stay alert while communicating with friends and loved ones over the Internet! So, you sneak behind their backs to get at glimpse over the numbers of messenger windows that are up on their screens, but what you actually see is lines and lines of code… Not really what you had expected! You start to feel slightly nervous and to ease your worries you inconspicuously search for the battery hatch on their bodies. But there are none to be found! The peculiar students ARE humans. Not robots or cyborgs or anything else.
So what in the world keeps them going?
Well, one qualified guess is the fuel they get from the coffee machines. IT-students can fill their cups with anything from the list below for free:
- Kaffe
- Mocka
- Choklad
- Cacao Crème
- Chocoffee
- Wiener Melange
- Cappuccino
- Café Au Lait
- Caffé Latte
- Macchiato
- Tevatten
One or more beverages in the list seem to increase your programming efforts. I don’t know which one yet. Do you?
Kaffe is absolutely the best one, imho. Another positive aspect is that it also forces you to regularly stretch your legs!
I always go for Café Au Lait, and i think the new coffee machines gives pretty good coffee considering its a coffee machine
IMO hackers/engineers rarely need any special fuel to code their nights away because they feel really involved and enthusiastic about the process. I can easily recall moments when I suddenly realized that a day had passed and I did not have dinner or something… OTOH, when doing some deadly boring stuff (like writing docs) caffeine is essential to squeeze any letters or words out of your poor exhausted body. Just my 2 cents!