<p>Then do you need to sleep for two days to recover?</p>
<p>I usually end up sleeping later and later throughout the week, so I need to sleep like 16 hours straight over the weekend to make up for it.</p>
<p>I had to pull a few all-nighters last semester because of physics exams/labs (ugh)....I actually did fine all night w/o Red Bull-esque help, lol. </p>
<p>But the day after, on the other hand.....</p>
<p>I actually hate red bull. It leaves a really bad aftertaste but I hear crunk is good? lol</p>
<p>Naps. The other night I was taking a take-home DBQ and started falling asleep on my paper. So I wrote down "34 minutes" (left) and set my alarm clock for 30 minutes. Slept in my chair (turned off lights, at least). Woke up to alarm. Pressed snooze. Woke up. Reset my timer for 34 minutes and finished the DBQ. :)</p>
<p>(I will never do that again. A mess.)</p>
<p>I've only pulled one all-nighter and that was after the second day of this semester. lol I was off to a great start...</p>
<p>Funny that in AP Stats, we did a survey of hours of sleep the night before. I was the only 0 in the class, followed by a 2 and 3. I was a zombie.</p>
<p>lol, luckily I can at least get half an hour of sleep each day during morning assembly...hehe</p>
<p>we did that survey in stats too =)</p>
<p>Sheer will power, and LOTS of rehydrating fluids, allows me to maintain consciousness as long as I need to. However, I hope to never need to push it beyond 22 hours in one day, or a total of maybe 12 during the week preceding a major research paper. (those two actually happened)</p>
<p>lotssss of redbul, or tea..not both though bc i dont like to mix my caffeines lol</p>
<p>AIM, and willpower, but when I'm gonna crash, I just go to sleep. Theres a point of diminishing returns where waking up early is better than staying up late.</p>
<p>Election statistics, computer games, college statistics, Wikipedia, Collegeconfidential. If those are not on, I crash asleep. If those are on, I can manage an all-nighter easily - with diminishing returns. I've pulled MANY all-nighters over the past two years.</p>
<p>It is 10:44 PM. I have a C program due tomorrow - a HUGE one - semester project. I have drunk plenty of tea (I rarely drink tea unless I'm planning on an all-nighter). I have SAT II Chem in two days.</p>
<p>I find it really sad that school is life to you guys. It's just high school, it isn't worth staying up all night, every night. It's not like you won't go to college if you don't. You shouldn't mess up your biological drives for something as stupid as high school.</p>
<p>I've never pulled an all-nighter just to study for a test. Actually, I've never studied for a test.</p>
<p>Anyone who takes AP Euro or AP US at my school is slapped with an enormous research project on an obscure topic (for instance, all research is done at the KU libraries because our school and public libraries dont have the sources). Probably half of the class or more pulls an all-nighter, though most people could avoid that if they had planned better. Honors English 10 also has a long-term project that often ends in an all-nighter.</p>
<p>Actually, I don't know anyone who studies all night. Wouldn't that sort of defeat the purpose? It's more important to be rested and get a good breakfast. I'm a little surprised by some of these answers.</p>
<p>i never pulled real allnighters, but I constantly stay up till 4 am each week(3-4 times) doing hw during sports season. It was fine for the 3 month, I catach a 30 minute nap here and there on the bus during away games. Then after about 3.5 month I finally fell apart. Last practice of the season, on a friday (thankfully), I was so tired that I didn't even feel like standing up during practice. lol. I literally could just lie down anywhere and fall asleep. So I skipped the homecoming dance, went back home at 5pm and slept till 10am the next day. Seriously, I don't think it was worth it to torture my body like that constantly.</p>
<p>hmm...lol...</p>
<p>I don't stay up late to study but I've stayed up until 3 AM doing homework and projects many times...It's not like I WANT to...I just procrastinate until the night before...it's a bad habit...but uhh...I just drink a huge cup of ice water and get to work...one time I used "Crunk Juice"...omg...it tasted like Dimatapp (cold medicine)...but I try and pace myself throughout the week so the latest I work is till 11PM...but if I have to turn it in the next day I'll stay up to finish it...During the summer I was staying up until 5 AM reading for my Gifted Lit summer project...I sleep in class anyway and until noon on weekends...</p>
<p>I don't. LOL. They are no good. But when I really need to spend like an extra hour, and get tired, music usually keeps me going.</p>
<p>well said 4321234, I dont think staying up all night is useful or necessary. Sometimes we are swamped, and may have to stay up till 3 or 3:30, but once it gets past there, you need to go to bed.</p>
<p>Yeh, this year I've set some limits on how much work I'm going to do, and fortunately the APs I'm taking my senior year aren't as bad as those I took last year work-wise. But as to how I did all-nighters last year? Generally with no music/tv, which may be why I'm more productive at night, and just one cup of coffee to get me over that 11-12:30 time where I'm about to fall asleep. Just before 1 am, I find I hit a second wind of sorts and am good til 5 or 6... just in time for a short nap or shower, then school. It's fine sometimes, if you can do it, but I'm starting to agree with those people that are saying it's pointless.... looking back on all the AP US hw I did last year, I could've traded 3/4 of it for sleep and still gotten a 5. Everything in moderation, I guess.</p>
<p>amen livedeeply. i'm trying to re-teach myself how to do less work and still do well. it seems like i just do far too much a lot of the time, where i could do less and do just as well.</p>
<p>i use to know how to do that too lol, then junior year came along...</p>
<p>haha dude you guys are intense!
i had a few allnighters this semester to cram.
didn't feel that great the day after.
HARHARHAR i basically drank a lot of coffee before sleepiness even kicked in, and i stayed on aim all the time.</p>
<p>I've done my share of all nighters, but I try to avoid them.</p>
<p>hmm,
lots of soda
constant stuffing my face with snacks
aim
random brakes to play random online games (I guess that's why it tends to take me all night)</p>