<p>Too bad he did not publish a book on how he did it, for that would have been very beneficial to us students today-12 hours of free time and 10 of work would be more than enough time to get stuff done.</p>
<p>I can't get up earlier anymore... don't know what it is, lack of stamina, or lack of motivation, but I used to do it all the time sophomore year. now I have to finish before I sleep or else I'll probably never do it.</p>
<p>I always get up early, even if I stay up late the night before.</p>
<p>Usually, instead of pulling an all nighter, when such seems absolutely neccesary (as with last night) :) , I go to bed at like 10 pm and wake up at like 1 or 2 am.</p>
<p>I have found that I need four hours of sleep, at least (not on consecutive days, of course, just one night) to be okay the next day at school. Preferably the four hours are right around midnight; then I wake up and do hmwk until I go to school. That works actually really well for me, so long as I hear my alarm clock. I have like four alarm clocks that I set to all go off at around the same time. (Once I slept through all of them...That was bad...) ;) Anyway I have found that pulling all-nighters is <em>very</em> bad for me...I start to get groggy at like midnight or one o'clock and just end up procrastinating, 'cause I'm so sick of studying. And when I do study it's like I can't get my eyes to move across the pages of my textbook. I'm totally useless.</p>
<p>That's why I get up very early in the morning...even though I have less hours in which to work, I get much more done.</p>
<p>I can get up very early in particular if I am about to travel somewhere; during a flight to China I did not sleep the whole 19 hours of flying. I was dead, for I had also stayed up for 21 hours previous. It was probably the longest time I have ever gone without sleep.</p>
<p>Wow, kman. Why didn't you fall asleep on the plane? I suppose sometimes it would be hard to fall asleep on a plane...but whenever I travel in airplanes I tend to fall asleep immediately.</p>
<p>I have gone two whole nights without sleeping (or perhaps I slept an hour on one night)...that is the most I have ever gone. That was at the summer science program... :)</p>
<p>I can never fall asleep when I am traveling because I am too excited thinking about where I am going and what will happen when I go there.</p>
<p>Towards the beginning of the school year (junior year) i would only get 1-3 hrs of sleep about one or two nights a week (the rest would be 6 hrs or so). But now, i know what to expect for each class and how much work is required for an A, so now i am rarely up past 12:30, thanks to improved time manangement skills, i guess.</p>
<p>I can't imagine not sleeping for some forty hours!</p>
<p>Also, despite what others have said about getting less work done late, i think it's about the same rate day or night for me. While im more alert during the day, i dont have as much focus as I do at night when i absolutely need to get the assignment done, although im tired. Some poor work ethic i suppose.</p>
<p>ziggytheman, that's kinda like how I am. I actually think I work better at night when it's more urgent for me to get done. I usually go to sleep twelve-ish, except in extreme cases. last year I used to go to sleep at 11 no matter what lol.</p>
<p>I have noticed however when attempting to take SAT practice tests in the night my coordination is well below normal, and my scores reflect it, but on normal homework and studying nothing seems to happen unless I stay up around 2-3, when I cannot function anymore and need to have a change of subject or go to sleep (all void when traveling, however.)</p>
<p>On normal hw or essays, etc., i'm effective late at night i should have said. Straightforward stuff. Things like studying, or SAT practice tests, i would probably quit, and say something like, "I don't necessarily HAVE to do this." Last night was a good example: very large AP Chem test (last of the year, since AP-test takers have no final). Studied right after school for about 15 minutes. Then, did other hw until later that night. By the time I got the chem out again, i was tired, so i went to bed, telling mand then, instead of getting up at 5 for another hr of studying, i hit the snooze about 14 times, so yeah.</p>
<p>you guys don't have finals in ap classes? lucky.</p>
<p>I am not taking AP classes yet.</p>
<p>You will be soon, don't worry. And you are not missing out on much as you can see except more worry and some pain if you fail to get it all right. Our school maintains in most classes that AP classes have no finals. Neither do any senior classes, AP or not, unless one fails to choose to take the capstone project. The sol requirement is that one has passed all graduation requirements and is maintaining a C- average in English.</p>
<p>I might start taking AP classes as soon as sophmore year.</p>
<p>From past experiences, I think that pulling allnighters to study for a test is bad bad bad</p>
<p>Pulling allnighters to complete assignments/ research projects/papers, good good good.</p>
<p>I can never pull an all-nighter. For some reason, I always end up with nothing to do after 5 AM. I usually get an hour or two of sleep if that happens.</p>
<p>NoFX, didn't you have to do that for the CSAT at some point?</p>
<p>The only time I've ever pulled a legitimate "all-nighter", as far as I can remember, was the day before spring break this year (meh, senior year) when I had a big chem test, an English test to retake at 6:30am, and the don't-pass-don't-graduate term paper due on the same day. Even then, I ran out of material as well as patience by about 5:00, so I just drove to McDonald's for breakfast and coffee.</p>
<p>We never have term papers except in two classes: Asian Studies and World History. Besides, we are given many days (10) to complete the assignment in one case and 14 for the other.</p>