[Rush]

So I think I've taken on more than I'm capable of handling for the next few weeks. Maybe.

I'm taking a summer semester at a campus a half hour away from home -- a Calculus course that lasts five weeks. Obviously, it's a very intense course, and it requires at least four hours worth of studying each night. The class itself lasts for 2.5 hours, Monday - Friday.

I'm working an internship at a TV station that's a half hour away from home -- but I work psychotic hours. At least three days a week (usually more), I have to wake up at 2am to be into the studio at 3:30am. Why? I'm a meteorology intern. And when the first newscast is at 5am, you need enough time to analyze all the weather data that came in overnight, design and create all the needed graphics for all the morning newscasts, update the various aspects of the station's website, blah-blah-blah. It's a lot of work. Some days, I have to be up at midnight to get to the station a couple hours early, cause they need me.

And of course, I'm also working my 'regular' job as a server during the evenings, usually only on weekends.

So my schedule usually goes: wake up at 2am, internship from 3:30am - 9am, Calculus from 10am - 12:30pm, study-homework-study, waitress if scheduled, eventually collapse in bed.

I'm lucky if I get 4 hours of sleep a night. By the time last Friday rolled around, I felt like I got run over by a bus.

So what the hell do you guys do to keep yourself awake when you're dead tired? I'm talking beyond the obvious solutions of coffee and energy drinks. Are there any kind of foods (that aren't loaded with sugar) that are stimulants? Should I be concentrating on eating more carbs to store up energy?