do you pull all nighters for school?

[Semidevil]

so lets say you have a test or soething coming up......the next day even.

Do you usually stay up and dont sleep and just study till the the test time, or do you try to get in at least even 2 or 3 hours of sleep.....

If you stay up all night, what do you do to keep yourself awake during the night?

 

[minendo]

Sleep and neglect studying. Studying is over-rated anyways.

 

[dbk]

i usually get started 4 or 5 days before the test day...studying 2-3 hrs a night typically from 7pm to 11pm. But when I really really need to cram, typically for finals, I pull the all-nighters. I sleep during the day before I cram to prepare myself.

 

[amoeba]

all nighters for tests are overrated.

I have pulled all nighters working on projects though.

 

[pyonir]

The only time i've stayed up all night before a class, was for fun. I've never stayed up all night studying.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I've only pulled a couple of all nighters.... Most of them were for high-memorization classes like history or psychology. I could never do it on my own unless I had problems to work of some sort, but I never needed to pull an all-nighter with math/science related classes.

 

[maddogchen]

I stayed all night doing a programming project before. had two midterms the days before the project was due. Spent all night and all morning working on it and then ran to the eng building before noon to turn it in on time. then they got smart and two years later allowed us to FTP our projects

 

[Supermercado]

I've stayed up a couple times to do work, but never to study for a test. If I had a test the next day, I'd always start studying either shortly after I got out of class at 2 or 3 or right after dinner around 6 or so and go until 3 or so. If I didn't know it by then, I figured I wasn't going to so it was worth it to get the sleep. It's all about time management, in my opinion; start earlier and end earlier. The times I stayed up all night were for getting programs done. Those were some long nights... most of the time, I'd been working on the program since early that week (they were always due Friday 10am) and was sick of trying to figure out errors.

 

[Hammer]

tried and failed more than once.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

high school, 4 yrs undergrad, now grad school, never an all nighter. i tried once (was up late doing HW for an early class), but couldnt make it. NEVER for a test, i need the sleep way too much. i have gone the distance partying a couple times tho

 

[cHeeZeFacTory]

now in grad school, but as a freshman i did try all-nighters. My advice is not to do it for finals. Maybe you can get away w/ it for midterms. If you're doing all nighters for finals, it probably means you haven't studied much all quarter anyway.

 

[eigen]

Why dont you just study early and often . I have four classes and I try to put in a hour per class every other day.This is usually more than enough. I had four tests last week and studied at most 1 1/2 hours the night before each and I smoked them.

 

[slightlyhuman]

never pulled an all night and never will. im looking to pass, not get a A+++

 

[Mo0o]

Never pulled an all nighter, i always space out my studying.

 

[George P Burdell]

i have three classes with weekly tests, and some classes with weekly homework so i plan around them and avoid allnighters. it's days when more than three events occur together that call for an allnighter.

finals week almost ends with me not sleeping for 3 days. this is three days after the last final, coz it usually means i pack up my entire life into suitcases, boxes and garbage bags and haul my ass across campus into a new room. for the semesters i'm not moving, i'm packing my bags to fly and add 15000+ miles on my frequent flier account in three weeks, which is a pretty good indicator of the amount of time spent in transit not sleeping and bitching at the crying baby in the flight that won't let you sleep or bitching at the guy in the seat in front of you who's the only guy in the entire flight to have his reading light on WHICH WONT LET YOU SLEEP.

ok that was wayyyy off topic.

then again, i pulled allnighers to see 24 season 1 and 2 back to back, and for west wing too.

 

[y2kc]

i pull all nighters for fun baby....

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: derrickperry
never pulled an all night and never will. im looking to pass, not get a A+++

yeah! strive for mediocrity!

back in my college days I did a couple all nighters and they weren't worth it for me.

 

[bandana163]

No.
I can't focus after ~22:00 and I don't need to study that much to pass

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: minendo
Sleep and neglect studying. Studying is over-rated anyways.

Exactly.

 

[Garuda]

I've never gone an entire night without sleeping. If I'm in bad shape, I will stay up late studying, but I will get at least 4 hours of sleep, although resorting to these measures is quite rare.

For analytical type stuff (Physics, Chemistry, Math, Economics, etc.), studying is of limited use to you anyway. There's just not much information to memorize. You need to be able to think straight in order to solve the problems.

 

[bobbybe01]

If you need to study...why not go to bed earlier and wake up earlier. I find that my mind is a lot more "fresh" in the morning. Cramming never really works for me...

 

[DougK62]

Studying all night for a test and not sleeping is one of the dumbest things you could do in school.

 

[jlarsson]

I've only pulled all-nighters working on projects. (And I've done it waaaay too many times, I might add).

 

[thomsbrain]

sleep > studying. even if you study hard, you won't do well if you don't get enough sleep. show up well rested and get in any studying you can around that, not the other way around.

 

[oboeguy]

Originally posted by: pyonir
The only time i've stayed up all night before a class, was for fun. I've never stayed up all night studying.