48 hours at a hackathon lol (it's like a competition where we had to complete a web-app in 48 hours that had to be designed around a general theme that was announced as soon the event starts). A big tech firm hosted it, and we had run of their offices for an entire weekend. You form your own team, so I went along with three of my friends from university. Everyone else there is a designer/programmer too, so there's a really good vibe about the whole event.. I can't really explain it, we're all in it together I guess.. all these teams of different sizes, ages and professions in the one place all nerding out hahaha.
There was a lot of pizza, red bull, smoking, emotional breakdowns, moments of ecstasy when your thing begins to actually work, more crying when it breaks. A lot of laughing, inappropriate jokes, team-mates making barely any sense at 4.30am... dreading the looming deadline because your app is
tit, craving the deadline because you just want to be done with it. It was quite literally the best of times, and the worst of times.
Another highlight was, I got my period half way through
these events are
extremely male dominated so you wouldn't get much sympathy for such things.. but it probably explains a lot of the crying though! I couldn't leave my computer because I was the only person on my team who could finish a specific framework task, so my teammate (they were all men) had to run down to the shop and buy my tampons ahahahaha.
