<p>Hey i am pulling my first all nighter tonight and i was wondering besides coffe (the obvious) what else could i do to keep my energize and able to study all night? And for those who have already pulled a all nighter, how did you feel the following day? Were you able to stay awake and school. Please and thanks for respones!</p>
<p>The next day was hell at school. I was only able to stay awake because my best friend stayed up with me too because we were both working on the same project lol.</p>
<p>I was able to stay awake pretty well until I got home the next afternoon. Then I took a 4 hour nap, just in time to do homework and go back to bed. I recommend these little mints by Ice Breakers that have caffeine in them. I got addicted to them though... Otherwise, just sugar, caffeine, and sugar.</p>
<p>Have something around so you feel like you're eating/drinking constantly. I usually chew gum or keep a water bottle of Koolaid somewhere. For some reason, that keeps me from getting sleepy.</p>
<p>As for the next day...take a shower, pick up a bottle of Mountain Dew on your way to school, and start chugging. :)</p>
<p>Have a really bright light directly over your head.
Oh, and listen to music.</p>
<p>If all else fails, whacking your legs 200 times with a ruler should help. :p</p>
<p>Listen to music, as fizix mentioned. The Sacrificial Dance from Le Sacre du Printemps should keep you awake all night. If not, try some of that screamo stuff. Of course, that'll destroy your concentration.</p>
<p>^Just so you know, the above is not from experience. Luckily, I've never had to pull an all-nighter, and it's unlikely I'll ever stay up past 11:00 on a school day for homework. Realistically, a word of advice about pulling all-nighters: don't (to copy the same joke various others have made).</p>
<p>^^ LOL. "The Sacrificial Dance from Le Sacre du Printemps". I can just imagine some kid jolting his head up every 5 seconds XD. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvc8kZrNMtw%5B/url%5D">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvc8kZrNMtw</a></p>
<p>As for the all nighter, I recommend small nap times (if you can handle them) of no longer than 20 minutes. Also, it helps to just work straight through the evening. DON'T DRINK CAFFIENE UNTIL YOU SEE THE SUN IN MORNING!</p>
<p>Pulling all-nighters is one of those things you get better at with practice.</p>
<p>lots of sugar-free redbull. caffeine only, so the crash isn't as severe. exercise before you start. basically, do everything they tell you not to do 2 hrs before bedtime.</p>
<p>It only sucks the next afternoon.</p>
<p>I'd like to ask- why do people do all-nighters when it's not right before the end of the quarter or finals?</p>
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<p>To do a ton of homework or study for a big test. </p>
<p>Last year, I would do outlines for APUSH the night before they were due. And it would take me all night to do them.</p>
<p>Man, I can never stay up all night.</p>
<p>I tried to stay up studying for AP Biology, but I read a paragraph from the textbook and fell asleep. At 11 PM.</p>
<p>I recommend going to sleep for maybe 10 minutes every couple hours. I tend to get more done if I'm not just mindlessly working throughout the night. Get some rest and you'll get better at working. It'll end up worth it. </p>
<p>If you reach the point where you can't work anymore, just go to sleep for a few hours, depending on what time it is. The point is, though, to just forget it and finish that morning. No point in staying up if nothing is getting done, right?</p>
<p>listen to stuff while you're working on stuff..it's not hard at all....</p>
<p>Why would you pull an all nighter in high school?</p>
<p>Stupid IMO</p>
<p>well...no-one procrastinates as much as high schoolers</p>
<p>If you need to stay up all night already, I think it might be time to revise your schedule a tad. Believe it or not, colleges don't recommend that you stress yourself out with 18 hours packed full of activities for admission. In all the college websites I've seen, not a one recommends that. So why is everyone staying up so late? No amount of homework could possibly take so long that you can't get at least 4 hours of sleep.</p>
<p>When I do outlines, it typically takes about 45 minutes to an hour. If I have to read a book, I set up a reading schedule to finish the book well ahead of the deadline and stick to it. When I write papers, I first take about an hour to make an outline, then quit for the night. Then I use my outline later to work on the paper in sections. For my piano practice, I practice right after I get home or right after dinner, since it's a good transition between nonthinking activity and something that requires a little more thought. When I study for a test, I just decide that if I can't review it in an hour, there's no way I'm going to get anything out of review longer than that. </p>
<p>If you do what I do, you won't be staying up all night. I can get 7 hours of sleep every night, which gives you so much more energy the next day than when you're staying alive on energy drinks and other junk.</p>
<p>I've never had to do an all-nighter, despite being in the IB diploma program (so, with CAS, ToK and the EE), with 4HLs and 3 extra subjects. I nearly always get the highest grades. Personally, I think it's kind of dumb to stay up all night working on a project or doing homework. I highly doubt that there simply isn't enough time to do it in the afternoon/evening if you just plan your time well and work efficiently, waking up an hour or so earlier than normal to finish if you must. It seems like it would be highly inefficient to work all night- how effectively are you going to be able to work when you're tired? And the next day, how are you going to be able to concentrate in class? Isn't it more important that you get enough sleep so you don't get behind in school 'cause you're so tired? I can understand wanting to do an all-nighter once, just for the heck of it, just to have done it once. But using it as some kind of study technique seems, to me, very foolish...</p>