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...it’s buried in Widener, never to be exhumed,” he says. Two months before graduating, Adams received a draft notice. “I do remember trying to beat the draft during reading period,” he says. On a combination of No-Doz, caffeine, over-the-counter-drugs, and other substances, Adams tried to stay up for days prior to his medical screening to make the army doctor believe he had some type of disorder.“I had destroyed my nervous system on no sleep, controlled substances and looked like...
...Unfortunately, these breakouts are unannounced, which makes class attendance not strictly optional, despite the fact that lectures are taped. In a past career, Ray Erickson perhaps defused hostage situations or drug addicts’ highs—at the very least, he once put a BS54 student on No-Doz to sleep. Picture a biology professor version of Ben Stein in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and multiply by ten. Just make sure you don't snore (another real-life occurrence). Don’t bother even buying the textbook; you only really...
...know those nights when it’s just awful—you have three papers you have to write, it’s three in the morning, you just took some No-Doz to stay up, you don’t know what to do, and you’re at a point where you have to write these papers? That’s exactly the moment when I start writing film music or putting together a beat.” He laughs. “If you’re going to procrastinate, you might as well focus...
Humans crave stimulants such as caffeine because they improve mood and performance, but we’re particular about our modes of ingestion. For example, No-Doz is an efficient and inexpensive Caffeine Delivery System (CDS for short), yet most users find coffee more appealing. Coffee’s sensory delights of heat, flavor and aroma are the reasons why stimulant-seekers are willing to pay three bucks for a cup of caffeine that would cost 10 cents in pill form...
While he was reporting the Bush-Gore Florida lunacy on election night (Choose and Lose), Stewart's well-acted cumulative fatigue evidently worried some literal-minded viewers who thought he really was fighting sleep with No-Doz and coffee while stoically providing slyly opinionated updates on the night's events: "George W. Bush has obviously taken his home state of Texas with 32 electoral votes. No big surprise, as the threat of executions is a very big motivator." And later, "Bush has swept the South... I seem to remember these states getting together once before. I can't remember when...