As the mystery continues of that
mysterious night explained in ‘A Strange Night at NEDUET (Karachi, Pakistan)’, when
they turned on their computers in the lab they found out that the respective
website on which their tasks were to be mentioned was not opening. Oh no! Coming
all the way from home, facing strange reactions and now this? So they tried
& tried and finally managed to open that website. First task was given to them exactly at 0500
hours and they solved it on their system. At 0600 hours another funny thing
happened. Suddenly there was a rooster noise in the lab. It was like rooster
was trying to wake them up. We are awakened rooster, they thought. It was
actually his wakeup alarm and it took him too long to stop that alarm. Everyone
was like, sir please we are awakened.
Brainstorm & solve it!
Brainstorm & solve it!
Hour by hour they were given tasks
and they had to brainstorm and solve it. Their bodies were aching, fingers were
tired, and head was going round. They missed their beds and their sleeps like
never before. They were remembering their homes like never before. Many tasks
they completed and submitted to the online system that was testing their
skills. Few tasks were like that they solved it on their system but when they
uploaded to the online system, it was not working there. So they couldn’t
submit those tasks and the chance of winning that competition automatically reduced
due to that technical glitch. Don’t worry there is always next time. But this
time all of them worked with patience and devotion. They experienced something
that made them better students and better persons. It’s not always about to win
or to loose. It’s about endeavors and commitment. They all cleared the test of
testing their limits.
The funny part
The funny part
One more funny part of the event is
that at 2100 hours a guard called to the lab and told him that a student is
waiting on the gate to come to attend his class. He was like what? It’s too
late now. That guy was actually brother of a participating girl who brought
dinner for her. A dinner can’t be yummier and energetic than one that is eaten
while a continuous brainstorming session under sleep deprived and under
pressure conditions.
They worked for 24 hours continuously
They worked continuously and this continuously literally means continuously, they worked for 24 hours, for ‘IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition’. Then 24 hours were over exactly at 0500 hours the next day and there was a sigh of relief. They wanted to literally dance and scream that yay we’ve done it. They wanted to sleep straight away but for that they had to wait until they reached their homes.
They worked for 24 hours continuously
They worked continuously and this continuously literally means continuously, they worked for 24 hours, for ‘IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition’. Then 24 hours were over exactly at 0500 hours the next day and there was a sigh of relief. They wanted to literally dance and scream that yay we’ve done it. They wanted to sleep straight away but for that they had to wait until they reached their homes.
The following snap is taken from IEEEXtreme website:
The test of testing the limits
After all this test of testing their limits they went home and enjoyed the sleep like never before. Sleeping is one thing but sleeping after such tension of brain and after Xtreme physical pain has a value that only a person gone through this can take pleasure of. No one else can. It is a sound sleep just like sleeping after selling your horses. Phew. They slept whole day probably and luckily it was Sunday. They earned their sleeps.
On Monday they came back to their
routine in NED. Everything seemed normal like it was before the weekend. All
the other thousands of students were same and they didn’t realize what their
colleagues experienced. Because if you have to experience it, you have to be
there!
This actual event is…
Dramatized by,
Engr. Ayesha Alam Khurram
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