<p>How often do you pull them? What do you do to stay awake?</p>
<p>Basically I was very busy this weekend and couldnt finish studying in time for chem 1... i never usually have this issue probably only did it like two other times..Im about to pull an all nighter and desperately read through everything</p>
<p>I’ve fortunately never really had one, but I have times (like right now) where I’m up later and then wake up at 4 am to finish stuff. </p>
<p>If you can, please try and sleep. Even if it’s only for a few hours. Your body needs rest to grow and recover, and you’ll perform a lot better in class the next day if you at least get 3 or 4 hours of sleep. It truly makes a difference.</p>
<p>^^ this. My “all nighters” are me taking a 2 hour nap and waking up in the middle of the night to finish my work up until I have to go to school or ill take a nap before going to class. I probably would need coffee for the day but it’s a million times better than getting no sleep at all.</p>
<p>I’ve never had one in college yet (3rd year) because I have classes that start later and I can always skip them if I feel like it (unless there’s a midterm). And most classes don’t collect homework so if I’m pressed for time I can just not do the homework. I’ve had a few all-nighters in high school though (because I didn’t have the advantages listed above).</p>
<p>I’ve only ever had one all-nighter in my entire college career. When I was in English Comp I I had been seriously putting off a paper and it finally got down to the night before it was due. I’d still only written like half a page of a 5 page paper. So, I stayed up the entire night finishing it. That made for a rough day. Luckily I didn’t really have anything else too pressing going on that day. </p>
<p>I still managed to get an A on that paper though.</p>
<p>Not very often. I’ve only got a month (and 2 days) of college left and I’ve only done an all nighter maybe 8 times total. Usually it’s because I procrastinated earlier and I have to get stuff done. For me that would usually entail staying up all night and going to bed the next day at like 5 or 6pm, so I wouldn’t be awake for a full 48 hours, more in the realm of 33 or 34 hours. It’s not too hard to stay awake for 34 hours, you’ll be tired but you probably can muster up the willpower to do it. Something like 48+ hours would be very difficult though.</p>
<p>I avoid them at all costs. Lack of sleep and long, uninterrupted study sessions both hurt your ability to recall information and do well on tests and assignments. I try to spread out my study to at least 3 days before the actual test, and in some cases weeks if it is an assignment, and get a good night sleep before finishing the paper or taking the test.</p>
<p>The only time I actually pulled an all-nighter was for my O-Chem final back in spring quarter. I had music playing (through earphones so I wouldn’t disturb my housemates) and I would make myself food every once in a while to keep myself awake, since the act of eating helps rejuvenate me. I wasn’t eating junk food either (because I had previously taken a Biochem class and learned that, in a nutshell, eating junk food just gives you a short burst of glucose), but instead making small meals. I think I made myself a couple of sandwiches, and even ate rice with vegetables and beans that night. The Facebook group page for my O-chem class was also open on my laptop as my classmates and I helped each other out with any last minute questions and clarifications. </p>
<p>I got a B on that O-chem final (my previous exam scores were C’s, and those I didn’t pull all-nighters for), which is literally the best O-chem test grade I’ve ever gotten. 8) </p>
<p>I had studied for that exam days before in short bursts, but my problem is that I can forget things extremely easily, and that night, I wanted to make sure I knew everything–all the reactions, all the vocab (my O-chem professor was big on vocab), how to do synthesis problems, how to do NMR problems (my O-chem professor also was big on NMR), and how to write out the mechanisms (which I already knew how to do by heart, but I was doubting myself). I had originally planned to go to sleep around 2am, but the hours just quickly went by and before I knew it, it was already 7 and I had an hour to get to class.</p>
<p>I’ve never pulled an all nighter. I’ve done midnighters but never an all nighter. All nighters just seem counterproductive. What’s the point of studying all this material if you’re going to be exhausted and not think straight the next day?</p>
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<p>First, it might be to finish a project. Second, if it’s to study for a test, it might be a test where thinking is not required (I’ve had a few).</p>
<p>I’ve pulled plenty of all-nighters…</p>
<p>I can’t say that I’m happy about it, but I’m not unhappy I got the work done.</p>
<p>Most of my all-nighters were basically just having fun or doing whatever. I could never really study past 11pm. I did pull one all nighter until morning but like still no studying and I just slept till my class was coming (slept at 6 am; woke up around 12.)</p>
<p>I did pull one off for this CoM paper because I completely forgot about it.</p>
<p>If I do pull another school related all nighter it would be a research/term paper or some important project</p>
<p>All nighters before tests are not a good idea, practically ever. Your brain does important work while you sleep that not only helps you think the next day but helps you remember things you learned that day. I don’t recall ever actually doing one for a test.</p>
<p>For papers and projects I ended up doing two though, both sophomore year. It was a result of poor planning on my part but I did get done what needed to get done, thanks to some Code Orange (showing my age on Mountain Dew products here?) being stocked in the dorm vending machine. I crashed, hard, after each one.</p>
<p>If we’re going to count staying up till 4 as an all nighter well no, it isn’t, three hours of sleep is infinitely, infinitely better than none.</p>
<p>I’ve been in college for four years and have never had to pull an all nighter. I never let things get so out of control that I have to spend the whole night completing an assignment or studying for an exam. Not to mention that I don’t think it is worth it in the first place.</p>
<p>I’ve only pulled one all-nighter in my life: last summer, my brother and I stayed up all night playing our Nintendo DS’s and cracking dumb jokes, just to see if we could. I think I woke up at 9 am one morning and didn’t sleep again until, like, 1 am two days later.</p>
<p>In college, though, I’ve never even had to stay up that late with work. Sometimes I wake up early to do it (like today to finish up my Linear Algebra take-home test), but that’s it.</p>
<p>Unless you’re a coffee junkie, you might be surprised how little caffeine (in small, incremental doses) it takes to stay up. Have too much, and you’ll mess up your brain and body so much you won’t learn anything or produce any good work.</p>
<p>Best plan. Go to bed early and wake up at 3:00 am. Think of that as morning, not the middle of the night. Take a cold shower if that’s what it takes to get going. Eat some food.</p>
<p>Lol its called Vyvanse</p>
<p>“First, it might be to finish a project. Second, if it’s to study for a test, it might be a test where thinking is not required (I’ve had a few).”</p>
<p>Honestly, I’ve always perceived all nigheters as the domain of poor planners. But that’s just me. To each their own.</p>