What song plays during your victory dance?
It is the end of the semester. A time of frantic coding/debugging trying to get things wrapped up -- at least to a point where we're not killed by advisors or ourselves for leaving things wrecked -- before some time off. A time of finals for those unfortunate souls not finished with courses. The stress -- no snickering from those with real jobs, thanks -- brought on by these times leads to small moments of celebration when the bug is identified and corrected, when the research paper is saved for the final time and printed, when the trick to a difficult exam problem is discovered, etc
Lidia has been working for two days on an exam for her class and tonight found the trick to solving the next to the last problem. When that happened the mental soundtrack to her celebration was the Mexican hat dance. That seemingly odd selection led to a discussion of what songs come to mind when I celebrate. Queen's "We are the Champions" -- the main chorus, not the "we will rock you" bit at the beginning -- is the usual when code design is complete. Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" is the accompaniment when a bug is killed. In the interest of full disclosure I must also admit that Ace of Base's "It's a Beautiful Life" also plays through my mind from time to time during mental celebrations.
What song plays over the PA during your mental victory lap?
Lidia has been working for two days on an exam for her class and tonight found the trick to solving the next to the last problem. When that happened the mental soundtrack to her celebration was the Mexican hat dance. That seemingly odd selection led to a discussion of what songs come to mind when I celebrate. Queen's "We are the Champions" -- the main chorus, not the "we will rock you" bit at the beginning -- is the usual when code design is complete. Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" is the accompaniment when a bug is killed. In the interest of full disclosure I must also admit that Ace of Base's "It's a Beautiful Life" also plays through my mind from time to time during mental celebrations.
What song plays over the PA during your mental victory lap?
posted by Timmie Smith at 10:50 PM
4 Comments:
After my written prelim was turned in the song Rockstar by N.E.R.D. was in my head. "It's almost over now..almost over now!" :)
There are probably others but the finals stress is getting to me. One more paper. "It's the final countdown!"
First of, *snicker*. :)
I don't know if I have any one song, and if I did it changes a lot. I suspect it might be "Mr. Self Destruct" by NiN. "... and I control you".
well we all know i'm the queen of decision making (puh-sike!) so i have one or two to share...of course 'final countdown' is now running thru my head, just to confuse me. thanks kate! come to think of it, i can't recall a song playing when a big hurdle was jumped by your's truly, but i do have theme songs, one in particular, sticking with the Queen theme, 'fat-bottomed girls'..."you make the rockin' world go round!" Need I say more? I submit, no. :-)
More likely than a victory dance, it's the song from The Wizard of Oz: "If I Only Had a Brain" that pops into my mind at odd moments or at moments when a mental challenge is underfoot.
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