There is this feeling that I can only get in the computer science hall in Berkeley. There is no other campus that I know of that has a large computer lab open 24/7 for students taking computer science classes. Indeed, it\’s that feeling you get at 3 am and the entire lab is totally full. It\’s almost like you\’re trapped on an island with all these people, but in this case you\’re trapped in a blue-tinted room with no cellular reception and horrible air circulation. And even when there are idiots making needless noise, there\’s just that feeling that you\’re part of something.
Despite all the tear-causing frusturation and irritation expressed by the dents on the computers, I am going to miss it next semester when i will be taking a non-technical courseload. Sigh!
er MSU has 6 computer labs reserved for CS student use, although one would be wise to stay out of them during course assigned lab sessions, but those are usually during normal class hours, and not at night. Also, MSU has 3 other labs for anyone in the Engineering college to use as well, plus misc labs that you can log into and use, PLUS all the labs at the bottom of every dorm hall, PLUS 2 unix servers and a cluster of Win2003 boxes that you can term into 24/7.
there\’s approximately 5 unix servers and 2-3 windows servers that we can ssh into 24/7. but the labs in the dorms are not really labs at all…