<p>it's kind of sad really... i'v never had to stay up past 10 for school work. is it bad that our IB program assigns about 30 mins of work a night? a history reading and sometimes a bit of math.. and that's it</p>
<p>we do get a crapload of long term stuff.. like an essay that's due over a year after it's assigned.. but i've never done a whole assignment the night before.. a whole day, maybe, but not a whole night</p>
<p>which kinda sucks, because im really used to getting 8-9 hours of sleep.. what am i going to do in college?</p>
<p>"i used to be able to pull all nighters... i've somehow lost the ability. if i go to bed later than 12 i'm a zombie. </p>
<p>this is bad."</p>
<p>same here! It used to be so easy and now I just collapse sometime during the night...........maybe we are only allowed a certain number of sleepless nights before we can't take it anymore......nah, it's probably laziness and senioritis</p>
<p>i've never been able to pull an all-nighter. cloesest I can get in 1AM. But really w/ the right time management you don't have to. I've taken 5 AP/IB classes every year and never had to.</p>
<p>I've taken straigiht 7 IB classes from junior year onwards. I've gotten used to no sleep and procrastination. I usually average 4 hours a night. You can see my late night posts sometimes.</p>
<p>all-nighters are really easy if
1) something extremely important is due the next day
2) you do something to keep urself awake (small break, mayb 5-10 minutes of pac-man or something every hour so u dont totally fall asleep)</p>
<p>Wow how the heck do you guys pull all-nighters? The latest I ever stayed up doing homework was 2:30, and that was because I was on AIM and facebook...I did get a 100 on that AP French Lit paper though. But yeah, that was an anomaly. I always am in bed by 11 and fall asleep around 12, and from 10-11pm it's only AIM. I am up around 6:45. I can't imagine doing homework past 10:30 unless I massively procrastinated or if I completely ignored homework till then. I mean, I have straight As in 5 APs (Bio is the toughie, then Calc, and then French Lit/English/US are really easy As for me...) Maybe y'all just go to really really hard schools. Sorry!</p>
<p>i'm with Crash_Blair. I've never stayed up all night. But, I usually do sleep at around 2 or 3 each night, which is really unhealthy, especially considering that I have yet to make it through a full class period of AP Lit. I generally fall asleep about 20 mins. into class...</p>
<p>Some of you, like the OP, brag about having pulled all-nighters as if it were a skill to be proud of. Well, guess what, you're not going to survive in college very long with that habit. In high school, I noticed that the kids who manage their time well and go to bed early are the ones who end up in Harvard, Y,P,S. And the ones who don't and pull allnighters habitually, well, if they're lucky they'll end up in schools like JHU. If I were you I'd use the rest of your senior year developing time-managing skills in preparation for college. After all, getting senioritis shouldn't be your sole aim for the last semester of high school. </p>
<p>If you've gotten straight A's in 5 APs because you pulled all-nighters, that might seem like a terrific feat in the short run. In the long run, not getting enough sleep or having an irregular sleep pattern in your teenage years will start to take heavy tolls on your brain and mental acuity later on in your life.</p>
<p>my friend and i, who pull allnighters on a regular basis, are always bringing each other magazine articles on what can happen to sleep-deprived people....eek!</p>
<p>put off, put off, put off: that's all I do. I dunno, I accept it as natural and not likely to change</p>
<p>it would probably help if more people looked upon it as a horrible thing to do, rather than "a skill to be proud of"</p>
<p>one of these days, i'll begin reforming (and there, the proscrastination shows it face again)</p>
<p>the downside of all-nighters is that you may be so sleepy the following day that you might not be able to remember what you studied for. plus, you'll get eyebags the size of garbage bags if you do it many times.</p>
<p>i never study during all nighters; i find that studying comes best after just waking up, but that is just me...otherwise the textbook language becomes mumbo jumbo</p>
<p>i use all nighters for essays, papers, projects, busy work, etc....stuff that i don't need too much concentration for, as compared to studying.</p>
<p>yes. if u are studying and ur trying to pull an all-nighter, it isn't going to happen. u'll fall asleep, unless what ur reading is really interesting.</p>
<p>and chlor, i think being able to pull one is a skill to brag about because let's face it, with college life, ur bound to need to pull one sometime. those that can't do it... ur screwed. of course pulling all-nighters all the time isn't healthy at all but i think its a great skill to have.</p>