So, I’m taking this marketing class right now. There was a huge project due in it today. It’s worth 50% of our mark with the presentation component. We got an early start on it of course, but somehow when it came time to hand it in, it wasn’t finished.

This led to the staple of an experience for a university student: the all nighter.

I personally don’t like to do these events, because I really like sleep. I mean, I love sleep. And when I’m tired and bored, the first thing I do is take a nap. Seriously, I like naps. But, with so many marks and the fate of 5 of my group members lying in my hands, I began shortly after my house team volleyball game on redoing our references. And redoing them. And more. More. Still. 4 hours later and approaching 2am, there was an end in sight: to references, all 5 pages of them, seriously, size 8 font, 5 pages o__O;;

By this moment, when you’ve already missed on a lot of sleep the night before, things start to get funny. At least they do for me. I mean, I start to find the most stupid thing hilarious. It’s kind of bad.

After finishing, I took a trip to meet with Sahir, who’s in my group and I’ve known since 1st year. He was also working on his 220 project, which is worth like 60% of the course mark. Good times. We sat in DC with another one of his friends, and I swear to god the most inane things got funnier and funnier by the moment. We discussed group members, typos, chocolate bars, snickers vs mars, projects, formatting; all while “killing shit” as the formatting or something would go horribly wrong while fixing stuff in Word.

Oh yeah, at this point I’ve also felt like I achieved some effing zen moment with Microsoft Word. I was on a roll. I figured out how to do proper references, auto-generate a table of contents (I mean, this was like epic), and ok, get this: 3 years into my university career I’ve figured out how to start the page numbers not on page 1. I kid you not. For 3 years I wrote my title pages and table of contents and executive summaries separate just to avoid this problem. I think Word and me are kinda tight now, werd!

Tim Horton’s hot chocolate at 4am is shitty. I don’t know why, but it is. Would not buy again

By 7am, I finally got to printing the work. It was beautiful. I think I shed a tear. I just shed a tear again as my browser reminded me that I was about to misspell beautiful, that’s just not acceptable.

So there you go. It was a long night. It was a hard night. But the project got done. I believe my group owes me food or sleep. Since I don’t want any of them sleeping with me or using chloroform in any way, I will take food. Mmmmm….