Ergonoxis Night

Ergonoxis - A 12 hour programming contest conducted from 6pm to 6am on Feburary 27th(Saturday).

Arguably one of the most memorable nights of my college life. All the excitement started at around 5 pm when I made two of my more interesting mistakes I have made over the phone. All while watching the B Arch people dance. Ah the girl in the front with the open hair and the blue jeans was stunning. Thanks to her, I got to the contest at 7pm.

Now me and Sowmy along with Surya and Viswa were the ones from our class. We found ourselves couple of PCs in a corner and settled in. Half an hour later the whole room was filled with people looking all serious and occupied. No one among us four took the contest too seriously.

We spent most of the night roaming around the college in the dark talking and occasionally polambifying :D The dinner at the roadside shop turned out to be pretty decent. The night went on with Viswa's singing and philosophic sayings, Surya's weird looking dance steps and Sowmy's silent observations.

Things began to get more and more weird as the night grew. I got stuck with a C problem and began to have long conversations with the monitor. Surya recorded this in his cell "It's 4 am and I am awake. I have never been awake this late. But am not sure if I am awake now" :D Viswa was fully asleep by then. Sowmy was semi-asleep and would occasionally wake up to tell me that I am thinking too complicated for a sappa problem.

While me and Sowmy solved a few problems, Surya managed to solve a particularly nasty problem which no one else finished. So at the end of the day (or rather the beginning in this case) we were all pretty happy.

Thanks to Ergonoxis I learnt a few things.

- Never say important things over the phone.

- The definition "Programmer /n./ A red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate objects" is actually true.

- Going a night without any sleep is not that hard. You just need a few friends to keep company.