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Re: The lights go out at UGLY - PrinceLightfoot - 08-22-2014

Good bye, Meyer. No other place could induce prolonged napping while trying to study like you.

Re: The lights go out at UGLY - needle - 08-22-2014

Wait, wasn't Meyer the home of the 24-hour study room? Where do all the desperate souls go now to study after the libraries close?


Re: The lights go out at UGLY - Rally - 08-22-2014

(08-22-2014, 07:40 AM)needle link Wrote:Wait, wasn't Meyer the home of the 24-hour study room? Where do all the desperate souls go now to study after the libraries close?

Jack In The Box?

Re: The lights go out at UGLY - CowboyIndian - 08-22-2014

(08-22-2014, 07:57 AM)garvin link Wrote:There's a thread of UGLY memories on CowboyIndian's Facebook page...

Thanks for looking, Garvin. Just to be clear, it's not my page but the Class of '70 page where, in keeping with our class Zeitgeist, all are welcome: https://www.facebook.com/groups/315334726472/

Re: The lights go out at UGLY - martyup - 08-22-2014

(08-21-2014, 07:20 PM)81alum link Wrote:Yes, the Dec system 20 was in CERAS next door to UGLY. 

Well, I was close.  Amazing how 35 years can cloud the memories.  I remember there was a signup sheet for terminal access, and once you got one you could stay on as long as you wanted so long as you didn't fall asleep.  If you did, a bearded Comp Sci major that smelled like he hadn't bathed in weeks would tap you on the shoulder and tell you to give up your terminal. 

Re: The lights go out at UGLY - 81alum - 08-22-2014

(08-22-2014, 07:59 PM)martyup link Wrote:[quote author=81alum link=topic=10404.msg94907#msg94907 date=1408674035]
Yes, the Dec system 20 was in CERAS next door to UGLY. 

Well, I was close.  Amazing how 35 years can cloud the memories.  I remember there was a signup sheet for terminal access, and once you got one you could stay on as long as you wanted so long as you didn't fall asleep.  If you did, a bearded Comp Sci major that smelled like he hadn't bathed in weeks would tap you on the shoulder and tell you to give up your terminal.
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That bearded Comp Sci grad student was probably K.Kuddles.  I no longer remember his real  name, but he was actually a very warm, nice guy underneath the scruffy exterior.  He gave me a lot of help on my 105 homework.

Re: The lights go out at UGLY - Hank 91 - 08-22-2014

During my time (87-91), Meyer was the social library, with a steady buzz of talking and people cruising around looking for procrastination partners. I was never the most focused studier, so that was the wrong environment for me. Whenever I chose a library in which to study, I chose Green.

Also, remember the Nerdy Walk of Shame? This had nothing to do with sorority girls and frat houses, but Meyer and Green. Meyer, I think, closed at eleven, but then you could walk over to Green, which shuttered at midnight, for that extra hour of studying.

Re: The lights go out at UGLY - CompSci87 - 08-23-2014

(08-22-2014, 08:44 PM)81alum link Wrote:[quote author=martyup link=topic=10404.msg94984#msg94984 date=1408762744]
[quote author=81alum link=topic=10404.msg94907#msg94907 date=1408674035]
Yes, the Dec system 20 was in CERAS next door to UGLY. 

Well, I was close.  Amazing how 35 years can cloud the memories.  I remember there was a signup sheet for terminal access, and once you got one you could stay on as long as you wanted so long as you didn't fall asleep.  If you did, a bearded Comp Sci major that smelled like he hadn't bathed in weeks would tap you on the shoulder and tell you to give up your terminal.
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That bearded Comp Sci grad student was probably K.Kuddles.  I no longer remember his real  name, but he was actually a very warm, nice guy underneath the scruffy exterior.  He gave me a lot of help on my 105 homework.
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I wonder if that was someone I knew. (I started in the CS PhD program in '81, so might have overlapped with him.)

Re: The lights go out at UGLY - CTcard - 08-24-2014

(08-21-2014, 03:29 PM)stupac2 link Wrote:  And Physics requires very little time in a library, unless you want to study outside of your dorm (and for some reason don't like the physics lounge).

I found that physics required a bazillion hours in the physics library.
Green was mainly a handy place for working on 24 or 48 hour take home exams.
And I didn't like the physics lounge.


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I wonder when the term UGLI died out. (Or did it come back?)
In the mid-80s we joked about it being an administration imposed nickname that no real students ever used, though apparently an early generation did so.

Re: The lights go out at UGLY - stupac2 - 08-24-2014

(08-24-2014, 06:29 AM)CTcard link Wrote:I found that physics required a bazillion hours in the physics library.
Green was mainly a handy place for working on 24 or 48 hour take home exams.
And I didn't like the physics lounge.

I mostly did those in my room. For studying my group usually used a dorm room, or one of the new ones in, uh, the White Plaza student center place. (I am really starting to forget places' names...)

Re: The lights go out at UGLY - Oasis - 08-25-2014

Like Garvin, I was a fan of the Main library.  I would go to the same carrel just about every day.  I called studying there in the evening "going to the bright lights." 

You could open the windows in those days.  There were trees then on the north side of the building.  (Are they still there?)  A limb extended almost to the window of my carrel.  Tree, limb and study environment changed with the seasons.  In the fall the leaves turned and it was beautiful.  In the winter the limb swayed with the wind (which you could only vaguely detect through the nearly opaque glass) and the cold air got through even with the window closed.  Then in spring the tree was glorious green and you could open up the window to the warm air.  There were a few squirrels in the tree but otherwise there were NO DISTRACTIONS in the Main, which (whether attractive heartbreakers or uninspiring knuckle-draggers) were about all UGLY had to offer.  I am very susceptible to distractions. The problem with the Main was that it closed about 10:00 p.m.  So I would slip off to the UGLY basement, which then was part of the Main and kept the same hours.  The basement attendants would just leave at closing time and you could study down there as long as you wanted.  Just make sure the door closed behind you when you left and you could repeat the trick every night. 

I remember some of the graffiti near my seat:  "Is this animal [rendering of microscopic life form] 'higher' than Norm Wessels?"  "Jerk Off, Suck Off, Check-ov, Rimsky-Korsak-off, That's Een-off" written by different people and "I schwer, dieses Buch ist hart." It was a kind of fellowship of minds grappling with the difficult.

Halloween Night 1973 I was in the basement late.  Everyone was gone.  A gruesome murder had occurred on campus recently and the deserted basement started feeling creepy as the night wore on. Then about 12:30-1:00 I heard something that sounded exactly like someone taking a deep breath right behind me.  I envisioned a killer inhaling just before he slit my throat, felt every hair on my head stand up and my blood run cold. But it was only the ventilation system.  It noisily inhaled again a few minutes later.