I talked with @dagill2 about this recently, I love legos and k’nex and spend hours playing with my kids with them. Now that I have laser tag guns it’s really difficult to not just quit my job.
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This is genuinely why I hate naps, as I am usually so exhausted that, when I wake up, I have no idea why I was asleep in the first place. I typically have to reconstruct my life like that movie “Memento”
The absolute WORST case of it was after a long period of sleep deprivation, I got to bed at a normal time with the mrs. I woke up in the middle of the night and I panicked. Specifcally because I was wondering “Who is this woman next to me? Holy f**k, WHAT DID I DO? My wife is going to be furious!”
And I spent WAY too long looking at my wife before I realized that she WAS my wife, and we had been married for over a decade, and even had a kid. I basically had to reconstruct the past 10 years mentally before I could recalibrate my mind and get back to sleep.
My wife is torn on how to feel about it. She’s upset that I could wake up and not recognize her, but also proud that I have “I’m married” so deeply ingrained in my head that, even in a moment of amnesia, I want to be faithful.
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This is a great explanation. I don’t usually nap because of this.
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I just wake up angry. I never nap, and today was a perfect example of why that is. My wife can nap anywhere and wake up feeling awesome. I feel like someone pumped cement into my head when I wake up.
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@ChickenLittle, darn, I guess I have no excuse to buy some now when I get the cash for it. 
@flappinit Haha! That would be the dream. Btw, you sure your kid didn’t swallow a piece while you were asleep?
https://giphy.com/gifs/pL9mJj2q7UGEU/html5
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God damnit you clown dick, if he shits one out I’m mailing it to you without sanitizing it.
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My mom has that superpower too!
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I can nap anywhere. 12 hours later I wake up feeling awesome
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I can’t imagine your boss being very happy with that version of a midday nap 
I’m mostly joking, 12 hours would be more than 2 days sleep for me
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In that case, idk if your gains would be too happy with that sleep schedule
I was going say, if I slept for 12 hours I’m pretty sure I would be in a coma…lol
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They aren’t, but luckily they come lower down my priorities than other things.
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That statement reminded me of @T3hPwnisher’s latest blog post
I’ve been following his writing for about 5 years so that shouldn’t be too surprising. He’s been a pretty big influence on me.
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I only recently found that the title I’m getting after my three years of computer science at the university is called “undergrad” in English. It sounds like a pejorative. Here it’s just called having a grade.
My confession is that I’m getting paranoid right now. I thought that in my field, having a grade would already put you ahead of many when it comes to finding a well-paid and prestigious job. And now I find out that it’s just an undergrade.
I wonder if I’ll ever find a job at all or if I’ll spend the next 10 years studying just to get a respectable title. I wouldn’t want that. Guess I have to focus on the present though.
This joke reminded me of the sad truth that is, at least for me, it’s super easy to fall asleep during the day and nap (and by symmetry it’s hard to resist doing so when I have stuff to get done), but it’s hard to fall asleep at night when I’m actually supposed to.
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It’s good to HAVE an undergrad: it just doesn’t matter where from. Matters more for post-grad degrees.
Welcome to reality. When I was growing up we were told to go to college and get a degree so we could get a good job. A high school diploma was basically good for minimum wage. Now a degree is so common that’s it’s worth about as much as a high school diploma. I guess that’s educational inflation or something.
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? I don’t understand your concern.
It’s just called an undergraduate degree in the U.S. It still means you graduated and got your diploma and everything.
If the field you plan on entering requires an undergraduate degree as a prereq, then you’re set- you have the absolute bare minimum required to be considered for the job.
If it requires a graduate degree, then you’ll need to go to graduate school and study some more so that you can have the absolute bare minimum to be considered for the job.
So you’ll need to figure out just what you want to do after you graduate and figure out what kind of education and experience you need to be considered. This is something all college students should be doing. If you don’t know what you want to do then you just make sure your grades are perfect.