<p>Are there any other second semester first-years that just can't pull all nighters anymore, or when they do just don't deal with the next day as well as first semester? I feel like I am growing up way to fast! Thankfully, this will be the last time I will have to do this, for this semester, fingers crossed.</p>
<p>I haven’t had to pull an all-nighter yet. Neither has my roommate. We both get a solid 8hrs of sleep every night, give or take.
I don’t function well enough after 11PM to do schoolwork so I watch TV and crash. Then you wake up early, after getting the same amount of sleep, and do the work in the morning.
All-nighters are “overrated”.</p>
<p>I have never. IMO, they are forced and a result of procrastination. I say this because my roommate last semester took three classes, all remedial and did one every other day. She slept the whole day and would stay up all night, honestly i think she got a high from it. Who knows. As for me, midnight or 1am i am out.</p>
<p>I’m only a senior in high school but I’ve pulled several all-nighters this year. Some because of procrastination, some because of extra-curricular commitments.</p>
<p>It’s physically and mentally exhausting, but i’m prepared for it next year.</p>
<p>Yeah this happened to me at some point in sophomore year. Freshman year especially first semester I pulled all-nighters very frequently and my general sleep schedule was all ****ed up, going to bed at 5 or 6 in the morning and getting up at 10. I almost never stay up all night anymore and usually go to bed around 1 or 2. It’s nice although I miss the early morning period between 4 and 5:30 when nobody’s awake and there’s this incredible quiet everywhere.</p>
<p>5 years ago I stayed up for 2 nights straight just for the heck of it, now I can never make it past 3am as a sophomore.</p>
<p>I guess I’m one of those people who thrive and get high off of all nighters… I’m more energetic when I’ve been awake for more than 24 hours. It may not be good for my health, but it’s good for my grades. I’ve noticed that my test scores are higher when I stay up all night studying and don’t sleep - either aced or >98%
I think freshman year is ideal for not just all-nighters, but staying up late. I regularly sleep at 3-4 am, wake up at 10 and miss 2 classes but still get good grades in them because they’re intro classes you can self-study
I love all nighters. When I begin a paper midnight the day it’s due, it’s always fun to brainstorm for ideas by strolling through campus or town at 3 am when nobody else is around</p>
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<p>I think this is a bit of a simplistic explaination… I’m in 17.5 units, and usually in 18, I go 4 days a week and most days I’m there from 9/10 till 3:30/3… that’s before doing ANY actual schoolwork, no reading, no assignments, no “go to this thing for two hours for extra credit.” Most days I’m so exhausted when I get home I have to nap for several hours and then compensate by doing my work at night when it’s quieter and I can focus without as many distractions. For some people, they do their best work pulling all-nighters, it’s not always a matter of procrastination. Many nights I’m just studying for a test later in the week, or a few weeks away, or just making sure I’m either caught up on reading in one class or ahead of homework in another. I’m not even that bad, I know many honors students who are taking 22-23 units a semester. Not even joking, one guy said he had to petition like six times to get all the units, AND he’s in the student senate, AND AGS AND started a Debate club at our campus.</p>
<p>So yeah… not everybody’s doin’ it just because they procrastinate</p>
<p>I’ve never pulled an all-nighter. Not in high school where I took a heavy course load and did extra-curricular activities on top of reading and homework. Not in college. It’s not necessary, even with massive procrastination (which I can be guilty of).</p>
<p>^I honestly find that really difficult to believe… assuming your heavy course load kept you busy until 3-4 pm, ECs until 6-7, you must have scheduled things amazingly well or never really had ‘any’ life (social or otherwise) to NEVER pull an all-nighter. Any night you go out and see a movie that’s staying up until at least midnight. If not an all-nighter you’ve certainly had to have pulled nights where you were up till 5 am… which is just splitting hairs</p>
<p>I was much worse last semester… I stayed up all night writing a paper once and then literally slept all the way through all of my classes the next day. This semester my body has gotten used to 4-5-6 hours of sleep per night.</p>
<p>I’ve had to pull a few all nighters this year (my second year), largely due to procrastination, though on the last one I could’ve woken up the next day to finish but it was the last thing due for the quarter so I just felt like pushing through. I don’t think I’ve found it more difficult to recover from them though.</p>
<p>What I have found is that it’s harder to get by on only 5 or 6 hours of sleep on a regular basis. Since I’ve had early classes, I’ve been trying to get to sleep between 11:30 and 12:30 each night. The upside is that I think it does make it easier to recover from the odd night where I need to work much later.</p>
<p>I’ve never pulled an all nighter out of necessity. Usually it’s just a result of not being able to sleep (staying up late on the weekend, sleeping in) or my neighbor being obnoxiously loud and not letting me sleep. Less than 7+ hours of sleep really doesn’t do me or my GPA any favors.</p>
<p>I have 18 credits this semester, so I guess my problem is a bit of time management, then again as Itachirumon mentioned, classes do go through all day so I do not really have the time to get stuff done during the day as I did last semester.</p>
<p>Oh well, 6 weeks left!!!</p>
<p>You’re a freshman dude. Wait until senior year, then you’ll really be getting too old for this. And it’s not like all nighters end once you’re in the workforce or grad school.</p>
<p>Itachirumon, is it really that hard to beleive that a good student has “no life”? The only life–social or otherwise–I had in high school was my ec involvement. I would have never gone out to a movie when I had homework to do, especially not one that would keep me out that late! In high school, I went to bed at 9:30 on the dot, simply because I was so exhausted. </p>
<p>I didn’t pull a single all-nighter until college. My sleep schedule got screwed up by dorm lights being on all night my first semester than when I moved off-campus and took on 2 jobs, I pulled all-nighters 5 days a week to keep my GPA where it needed to be. I slept on Tuesdays. No classes, no jobs, just sleep. </p>
<p>I’m 23 now and I can’t pull an all-nighter if I tried. DF and I are the couple who will go to a bar with friends, order one drink, pretend to be lively, then give in to our bodies at ~10pm. Not sex. Just sleep. Can’t do it anymore (partying). Too old for it. Look at me: it’s 5am and I woke up an hour ago!! I’m drinking my coffee and watching the first edition news!</p>
<p>I only have all-nighters at home when I’m playing a game or something and then I lose track of time. However, for school, I don’t think that’s a wise choice at all. I did it a lot in high school and on those days, I literally could not keep my eyes open. It’s not worth it. Just do your homework/study when you’re supposed to! (My roommate pulls all-nighters pretty much every other day and it ****es me off to no end. -___-)</p>