Cambridge Chat (previously New Cambridge Students Entry 2004)

Katie J

Read your latest email from the JCR Green officer? :wink:

Fair Trade in Newnham! :biggrin:

Woo!

yes i did! it's so exciting! if only i ate chocolate... but i will definitely be getting some coffee once the stuff i have runs out. so are you going to run for next green officer? i reckon you'd be good at it!

Reply 12861

Willa

11

*Arbitraily bursting into song* MY DARKSHINES......BRINGING ME DOWN....MAKING MY HEART FEEL SORE....CAUSE IT'S GOOOOOOOOOD

Reply 12862

irisng

Do you switch them off or do you actually sleep through them? :confused:

I don't know. I never recall hearing them/waking up, though I'm prone to sleepwalking and not recalling it, so god knows what I do.

Reply 12863

that's just what i need right now!

*puts on her muse CD*

i forgot about muse!! oh how i missed you, my darling..

Reply 12864

Willa

i've done that too mate...last term i went through a period of 2 weeks where i think i attended maybe 2 9am lectures......considering i should have attended 12. And i think i missed the 10am ones a couple of times in that time frame as well!

crikey. what do you do about it??

Reply 12865

fishpaste

I don't know. I never recall hearing them/waking up, though I'm prone to sleepwalking and not recalling it, so god knows what I do.

i sleepwalk too and i used to just turn it off and go back to bed without realising it. the only way to get around it now is to place the alarm clock in a different place in my room every night, so that i'm forced to be vaguely concious to remember where to find it to turn it off. that said, i've been known to have conversations with people on the corridoor in my sleep and not notice.

Reply 12866

naelse

i sleepwalk too and i used to just turn it off and go back to bed without realising it. the only way to get around it now is to place the alarm clock in a different place in my room every night, so that i'm forced to be vaguely concious to remember where to find it to turn it off. that said, i've been known to have conversations with people on the corridoor in my sleep and not notice.

this is an awesome idea though. luckily, tomorrow the college nurse is coming round early in the morning to give me blood test.

Reply 12867

Willa

11

well to solve this problem you *MUST* get to bed early. It's imperitive you start getting to bed before midnight ideally. Even if you have work to get done, leave it and explain to supervisors you're having problems with fatigue (i told my tutor and he sorted it with supervisors).

Next thing is to set a time to get up and bloody hell make sure you get up then. If you have multiple alarms, set one to the time you want to get up, and one to half an hour later. You need to condition your body into getting up at 8:30 ideally. Then no matter how hard it is, get up and go have a shower or something.....as soon as you are concious force yourself up....if you really want to sort this problem out you will get up.
if you want a shock just throw cold water on your face first thing in the morning....it's what i was doing.

It's also useful to set rewards for yourself for turning up to 9am lectures...i have a box of chocolates in my bag which i can only have a few from if i am in my 9am before 9:20.

but i think the important one is going to bed earlier. last term i often went to bed past 1am, but this term i really try to be in bed before midnight and it seems to be working!

Reply 12868

Katie J

10

naelse

yes i did! it's so exciting! if only i ate chocolate... but i will definitely be getting some coffee once the stuff i have runs out. so are you going to run for next green officer? i reckon you'd be good at it!

Hmmm I have thought about it, someone else has suggested it, but to be honnest I don't think I have the time to do it properly, maybe next year. I am thinking about it though, it's definitely something I'm pretty keen to support. :smile:

I might speak to the current one to see how much of a time consuming thing it could turn out to be, I've taken on a bit too much recently and feeling the strain already and it's only just week two!
I am your contact for people willing to help though... :biggrin:

(hint hint!) In a bizarre way NCFTS is a UKL product...it was discussed here before I actually met face to face my fellow ethical friends! :tsr:

Reply 12869

Camford

My 700MB download is corrupted... It took me 200 hours to download that!!

Reply 12870

crana9

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fishpaste

I don't know. I never recall hearing them/waking up, though I'm prone to sleepwalking and not recalling it, so god knows what I do.

is your mum/dad/similar person awake and able to phone you at a particular time every morning? might help :s-smilie:

i have to ring my bf to wake him up for important things :rolleyes:

sometimes this involves me setting an alarm just to wake up, ring him, and go back to sleep again!

Reply 12871

crana9

is your mum/dad/similar person awake and able to phone you at a particular time every morning? might help :s-smilie:

i have to ring my bf to wake him up for important things :rolleyes:

sometimes this involves me setting an alarm just to wake up, ring him, and go back to sleep again!

nah both my parents sleep really late :frown:

plus if I sleep through an alarm I'll sleep through a phone :frown:

the nurse seemed very happy to come to my room though :P

Reply 12872

crana9

i have to ring my bf to wake him up for important things :rolleyes:

sometimes this involves me setting an alarm just to wake up, ring him, and go back to sleep again!

awww that's so nice of you... i would never give up on precious sleep to help someone else out... :redface:

Reply 12873

i'm going to bedddd I hope

Reply 12874

crana9

2

fishpaste

nah both my parents sleep really late :frown:

plus if I sleep through an alarm I'll sleep through a phone :frown:

the nurse seemed very happy to come to my room though :P

yeah, but i mean if you sleepwalk and turn them off, perhopas having to speak to an actual person would wake you up slightly more :s-smilie:

and they can keep ringing you till you wake up :wink:

I'm waking up at 9 tomorroew but I wake up about 8 tues/thurs/sat if you want a wakeup call..lol

Reply 12875

MadNatSci

Immortal Wombat

/me is officially old. :frown:

Happy birthday!! You old old or just old? (ie 20 or 19? :wink:

)

Reply 12876

Alaric

1

WTF have I been hacking a simple Objective C program for the last two hours, I don't _know_ ObjC and I should have gone to sleep!

Argh!

A.

Reply 12877

Immortal Wombat

MadNatSci

Happy birthday!! You old old or just old? (ie 20 or 19? :wink:

)

Old old. Third decade type old. Never more to fit the label "teenager". Bereft of youth. :smile:

Reply 12878

Camford

Alaric

WTF have I been hacking a simple Objective C program for the last two hours, I don't _know_ ObjC and I should have gone to sleep!

Argh!

A.

ML is muich better than Obje_C you know.,

Reply 12879

Camford