<p>does this mean not to sleep or sleep like an hour?</p>
<p>Not sleeping at all.</p>
<p>This is exactly what I did for my Psychology SL Internal Assessment, after the experiment and rough draft we had less than 4 days until the final draft was due (and no weekend to do it!) so I pulled an all nighter the night before it was due (had just finished and printed it out right before I left for school). Ended up tied with the highest grade, after failing the rough draft, so it all worked out :)</p>
<p>If needed, you might take a nap during the afternoon (3-5 or something) and it will still be considered an all-nighter :p Just as long as you didn't sleep halfway between your assignment or right after your assignment (to get an hour before school) it is an all-nighter, heh.</p>
<p>No sleeping for the duration of the night. My father and mother did this studying for grad school finals and other tough classes in college. I never have done so and don't plan on doing so for a long time.</p>
<p>I personally advice against it. However, I have a feeling that during my junior year, I'll be pulling a lot of those.</p>
<p>When you think about it, working for 8hours during the night seems like one can get a lot done. Except 1hour of work under good conditions=3 hours of work when pulling an all-night (because one's really tired and not as concentrated).</p>
<p>I can usually concentrate for most of the day, but I choose not to test it since sleep is more important than killing myself for one exam, especially when there will be others that I can do well on and boost my grade.</p>
<p>sleeping is overrated</p>
<p>As long as one has not suffered from severe sleep deprivation (ie those who have been tortured and the like, or those who have wild fluctuations in sleep cycles), then yes, I can agree somewhat. However, the brain does need an occasional rest to function and repair damage from the free radical population let loose during the day.</p>
<p>I've pulled a one-hourer. Suprisingly, it's worse than no sleep. You recover from the day mostly during the final hours of sleep- deep sleep- REM stages- so one hour doesn't help much.</p>
<p>Also- u wake up (by alarm obviously, or u'd never do it)- and ur like 'where am i?' and u think ur in dark city or something or living some nightmare. (it was dark out when i woke up at like 5 that day to finish my shyt). Never sleep for like an hour there's no point.</p>
<p>I've only pulled an all-nighter once, and it wasn't for homework. ;)
it was innocent (but tired) fun!</p>
<p>I can't imagine pulling an all nighter for anything but homework and tests.</p>
<p>to tell you the truth... i can't imagine pulling an all-nighter for anything other than an extra-curricular.</p>
<p>I try not too often, because it's not healthy, but sometimes one just has to. And I totally agree that something that takes you 1 hour to do at 5pm will take you must longer to do at 5am.</p>
<p>Unless you wake up early and go to bed early; there was a time where I woke up at 5:00 and started doing work, and was just fine, but I went to bed at 20:00 every night (during the end of last year).</p>
<p>I did something similar. I used to go to sleep at 4pm, sleep until 11 or 12, then do my homework. It was great for my homework, not so great for having a social life.</p>
<p>I dont need a real-time social life, I have the forum for that pursuit. Otherwise I am normal. I usually do similar things on Spring and Winter Breaks (we always have over-break homework), partially because I am able to get up and be fine knowing I don't have school the next day.</p>
<p>my goal is to get through high school (hopefully life) without pulling an all-nighter. I'm a junior right now. I've come very close a couple times, the closest I got 40 minutes of sleep. :D</p>
<p>I have never had to pull it; if it is too late, I will go to bed and do my homework either while eating breakfast, during Spanish (the teacher is never in, so we never do anything), or during lunch if the work is for math or chemistry. I also do chemistry work during math since I already know the material once in a while, but I usually do the math work since I always have other subjects. After AP exams I will only have to worry about three subjects: Math, English, and possibly Chemistry if it gives a final.</p>
<p>If you don't get at least 3 hours of sleep (one cycle), it's really not worth going to sleep. I've never pulled an all-nighter, but I've stayed up very late several times. Since I don't drink coffee, it's hard for me to stay awake, so I don't get a lot done. I've found that I can do more in 30 min in the morning than I can in 2-3 hours late at night.</p>
<p>Interesting fact: Ben Franklin trained himself to only need 2 hours of sleep each night. No wonder he got so much done.</p>
<p>I've found that too. Sometimes I wake up early, to get it done. :)</p>