In any event, it was not uncommon to be up until three in the morning (this was our 3AM Etermal, long before the rave culture was established) and to be hanging out at the SCC Coffeehouse or the Walker Memorial or the East Campus roof (a good place to set off thermite flares).
So avoiding a class before 9am was desirable when filling out the schedule for the upcoming semester. Except for those of us who were active staff of thursday or that other newspaper (I believe it was called The Tech, but don't hold me to it), who would show up around 8am on a Friday morning at political science professor Ed Diamond's journalism shoot-the-breeze session, where we would discuss the news we had put in the week's editions of our newspapers and why it was there (this became an interesting and lively discussion when the Consumer Guide was published in 1977). And it also meant that there were few of us who ate a good breakfast in the morning (and even fewer who ate a good breakfast at either Lobdell or Walker, although the quality of the offerings may have influenced the outcome).
It was quite common for my father, who lived at least one time zone west of MIT, to wake me up in the morning with a strategically unwelcome phone call to ask me how and what I was doing. For Pud Stickles, it was something a little different...
Here was a typical night for the typical student seeking a typical night's sleep...
Waking up in the morning was also the subject of the first strip published in the Stanford Daily. The reference to Pink Floyd circa Dark Side of the Moon established my brand when it appeared in January 1979.
As you can see, Stickles had a little competition for the hearts and minds of the typical Daily reader. Gil Morales went on to publish an entire book of Dupie cartoons around the time he graduated in 1981. Stickles went on to be cancelled after one semester...
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