[slurm-users] No coffee allowed on BYU campus(!) Suggestions for alternatives?

[Bjørn-Helge Mevik]

I've signed up for SLUG 2023, which is on Brigham Young University. I
noticed on the Agenda (https://slurm.schedmd.com/slurm_ug_agenda.html)
that "coffee is not provided on campus, so be sure to get your morning
caffeine before arriving."

Following a whole day of lectures without coffee when you're jet-lagged
8 hours and have spent 15 hours travelling, is not going to be easy, so I
thought I'd bring a thermos flask and get it filled with coffee in the
hotel or in a coffeeshop.

But now I discovered https://dancecamps.byu.edu/content/byu-honor-code,
which says "no smoking or drinking of alcohol, coffee, or tea is
permitted on the BYU campus, though other caffeinated beverages are
allowed."

So, any suggestions for "other caffeinated beverages" I'd be able to buy
and bring with me to the sessions?

--
Cheers,
Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient,
Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo

[Russell Jones]

Besides the obvious answer of energy drinks, you could buy canned cold brew coffee. It may not be super obvious to others that you are drinking coffee and still allow you to get your coffee fix.

[Oren Shani]

Hahaha, there is no decent coffee in the United States anyway.

If you can get some (I'm not sure it is sold there), canned coffee is a decent substitute. Other than that, Coca Cola has lots of caffeine in it, and I am sure there are vending machines on campus (ok, maybe Pepsi, but as far as caffeine is concerned, it doesn't matter).