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Show your new/ UVSC does well in contest A3 MONDAY • NOVEMBER 6 • 2006 Jason Adkins News Writer Student Jared Magill takes a power nap on a bean bag. Burning the candle at both ends Heather Brown News Writer Eight hours of sleep? Yeah right! College students at UVSC and at other schools across the country are getting far less than that. In a world of 24 hour grocery stores, friends, late night TV and exams, students are not getting the sleep they need. Many admit to feeling tired all of the time or even falling asleep in class. Research done by the National Sleep Foundation found that 63 percent of college students are sleep deprived. So what does that mean for these students? Your brain needs sleep. Sleep is your body's way of resetting itself. Without sufficient sleep, parts of your brain actually stop functioning. Your speech can become slurred, your reaction time is slowed, and your short term memory is altered. In fact, driving while tired can be just as dangerous as driving while intoxicated. Students who are continuously fatigued tend to do worse on tests, too. One survey says that up to 30 percent of what is learned can be forgotten just by staying up too long. Who can afford that? Of course, forgetting what you learned starts the vicious cycle of cramming. You haven't slept enough the entire semester, and now it's time for a major test. So you stay up until the wee hours of the morning "studying" what you have already forgot due to lack of sleep. You show up to the testing center the next day to take your test. You look at the paper and... nothing! Your short term memory is fried, and although some of the things on the test sound familiar, nothing is really clicking. One more test down the tube. So the big question is, how do you know if you're sleep deprived? One of the first signs is difficulty waking up in the morning. Don't just chalk it up to not being a morning person. Also, inability to concentrate and falling asleep in class are two more major signs. Lack of sleep can also cause moodiness or depression. If any of these symptoms ring a bell, it's time to do something about it. Help your body learn to sleep again. Start a regular routine of going to bed at a decent hour and waking at the same time each day. If you're having trouble relaxing then do some meditation or take a hot bath. Exercise on a regular basis and eat right. Don't put off studying for a class until the last minute. Your body will thank you. Computer science students from UVSC battled against colleges and universities from several states and provinces in the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest regional competition held on Oct. 28 at the University of Utah. The IBM-sponsored competition was touted as a "Battle of the Brains" among computer science students around the world. Four teams of three students each participated from UVSC, and the teams finished in 6th, 9th, 42nd and 46th. According to Brian Durney, associate professor of computing and networking science and coach of the UVSC teams, the competition is sornething you can show to employers to show that you are doing something beyond normal classroom work. During the competition, students were given five hours to solve a variety of problems. Students had the choice of using C, C++ or Java to implement the solutions to the problems. While implementing some of the solutions was something that a student with a few computer science courses could solve, to do so in a short amount of time was a feat that only advanced students could do. "They are generally problems the students would not have seen in their homework," Durney said. 'To do well, you need experience programming." 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