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Is there a coincidence that so many I’ve met at the ITU are weak for trance music? Or is it simply that computer enthusiasts also like the sound that’s made from them? Certainly there is at least one computer involved to create good trance music. I need to ask myself, could we survive without computers once we’ve fallen in love with electrical sounds? -Oh no.

There is something about the combination of trance and computing. It’s like what Jolt does for Dreamhackers, or what a Duracell battery does for a rabbit. It can’t really be explained, but if you’re one of those who enjoy that genre, you surely know what I’m talking about.

I remember saying this loudly in the lunch room one day, and the reactions were not what I expected. Apparently I ate my lunch beside a bunch of non-trance-fantasts. Archie looked amazed and said that I should write an academic article about it. Well, why not? I truly believe the magic about trance can be proven.  I also believe that trance can make you forget everything around you, keep you focused and as a result: make you code faster. One day I’ll really try to prove this! I mean, is there a coincidence too that trance is called trance?

Whatever the truth might be, I would like to recommend two of my most loved albums:

• Sub6 – Who Needs Love Songs?
• Braincell – Frequency Evolution

When spending too much time indoors, your skin gradually decreases its defense against the sun. Have anyone heard of passionate programmers coding in sunlight? No?

Well, DIDN’T THINK SO

According to what a lot of people claim; letting your body absorb some light is utterly healthy. You should expose yourself at least a couple of minutes every day! But computer fantasts stay inside and no wonder their skin is getting white… although mine is transparent.

Personally I love working indoors, as long as the lamps are off and the room is dimly lit by natural light. Isn’t it wonderful when everything just bathes in soft shadows with no contrasts or reflections? At the university, I arrive early and take pleasure in the pleasant lightning …until someone switches the horrible fluorescents on again. Oh, I hate it! However, pure open-air sunlight is different. Even though it’s impossible to bring your laptop, as you won’t be able to see what you’re doing, it’s worth taking some time off, relaxing under a bare sky. Drinking chilled Jolt. Now is the time! Summer is here, whooaaAAA!

But take cover!

A while ago I was trying to convince all my friends that I’m not a vampire and am fully capable of exposing myself in sunlight for more than five minutes… But you can sort of figure out how that went. My skin has become very fragile.

For all you guys out there who share my life-style (studying in the dark), don’t forget sun lotion, lol.

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?