Incident @ SFU
As you might know, I work at SFU these days. I’m working on an Intranet project for the business faculty(I’ve included a small visio drawing of how it’s going to go down). Well, on the way work today, I saw an example of an SFU student taking his coursework way too seriously.
This is what I do at work
This guy was walking down the hallway when he suddenly dropped to the floor and began to convulse. There was a lady there, and she attended to him, while I went go get medical assistance. When I came back, the guy had recovered somewhat, and was picking himself off the ground. He said that he was feeling better, and just had to go to the washroom.
We let him walk off by himself, and he took about 10 steps before he dropped to the ground and began to convulse again. This time we took him over to the side of the hallway, and didn’t let him get up. By this time, a student walking by was there to help, and went to get some water for the guy on the ground. The guy on the ground was cooperative, but insisted on returning quickly to his class because he had an exam. He was very pale, and I asked him whether he had had much sleep lately, to which he relied no. I’m guessing that he might have stayed up for a couple days studying by using caffeine pills, and that had led to his seizure.
Regardless of why it happened, the guy was adament that he return to class – He didn’t want to risk failing the exam. I then went over to his classroom and told the prof that there was a student who couldnt’ return to class – and she came out to help as well. When I got back, the securty guard had arrived, and wasn’t letting the guy on the ground drink water, for fear that water would hurt him somehow (Is there anyway that drinking water can hurt someone having convulsions? I figured dehydration was more likely a cause of the problem in the first place, and gave the water to the guy).
Soon after, medical care arrived and began to attend to him – I left my information with the security guard, and went on to work. The guy made a recovery, and I saw him walking through campus later on in the day. He may not have known how seriously he could have been hurt, but his mind was only on his exam. I know his example is extreme, but I see that kind of attitude carried often at our school – it’s one of the reason that no one every parties at the school. You will get 30 times more people out to an CFA infosession than you could ever get any kind of party or beer garden.
I think the moral of the story is that we need some balance in our lives, even students
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yeah sometimes it happened, the students take the exams too seriously. I miss those old days, when I had to study for the exams
I miss Uni times very much … I think you can balance your lives easier when you study rather than when you work, don’t u think so ?
I definately think it’s alot easier to have a good social life in university- But work/life balance depends on the person and the job. In university you are able to set your own expectations, and you are responsible if you dont’ meet them.
If you’re working – somebody else sets the expecations, and those can be either greater, or lesser than what you set yourself.
Do you know of other cases where people have passed out from studying? I was shocked when this happened
hahaha actually I can’t see the funny part from your posting. But after I read your reply for my comment and saw the icon, I can’t stop laughing * even I am still smiling now
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Yeah It’s true, actually it’s pretty shocking that someone can pass out because of studying … Hm I don’t think it can be happened to me * lazy girl
Lol, your final point about the “30 times more people…CFA infosession…any kind of party or beer garden. Is only too true.
Aside from this hilarity, I didn’t realize that Visio could make such pretty pictures. You should give DENIM a try
Alex, that berkley project is the best use of tablet PC’s I’ve yet seen – Thanks for the link.
BTW, what made you choose zope for you page?
Zope rocks! It’s through the web, so no FTP, and no file permissions (unless I really want to). You want to move something, Cut|Paste, it’s moved. Transfer to another machine, export| then import. Click the appropriate link, and the page, script, image whatever, opens locally in my favorite editor, CTRL+S and it’s saved to the server. I make a mistake, go to Zope’s undo mechanism, sweet! The list goes on… Life is just easier this way.