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Up All Hours Study Madness allege. A place where young holic refreshment. Wrong. minds strive to attain intel- Well how about a happy medium be- lectual supremacy through tween the two extremes? How's this sound? severe academic competition. College. A place where after sports, friends, at Wrong. fun, good music, partying, and other enter- College. A place where young minds dili- taining diversions, young minds strive to gently strive to attain intellectual paralysis complete their mountainous pile of incom- through the continual consumption of alec- plete schoolwork at unspeakably late hours. Sound a little better? Of course it does. The phenomenon de- scribed above demonstrates every college student's apparent love for insomnia and procrastination, known as "Late Night Studying." All across the nation, indeed, all over the world, students of all ages are signing up for Late Night 101 where everybody is always late to class and the subject matter covers everything from Shakespeare to Bio-Medi- cal Engineering. Oh, and the fun doesn't stop there. Many believe that students study late at night be- cause there aren't any distractions. Wrong. We late night artists (as we like to be known) are subjected to the worst kind of distractions. For instance, the neighbor who just has to fall asleep to the blaringly melodic tones of "MegaDeath" and the like. Or, for all you Rouzer fans wonderful- ly harmonious sound of fire alarm buzzers screeching in the middle of the night. Whatever the result of our nightly toil ends up being, Late Night Studying will always be the method to our madness. Matthew Bayley