<p>Hi, I have heard that in college there are times when you keep working for days and nights and don't go to sleep. I was watching a documentary on statistics and in that they should UCB students not going to sleep for three nights and just working on their homeworks etc..</p>
<p>It is really true that it could happen? I am in high school, it's a tough life but I at least get to sleep for fours hours (sometimes three)... but no sleep for three nights in a row really makes me wonder.!!</p>
<p>I've NEVER gone a night w/o sleep in college. Not during the week anyway.</p>
<p>Most of the students here that stay up all night or get less than five-six hours either 1.) Are architecture or design students and spend all night in the design building because they have an overnight cafe and 24 hour design computer access and it keeps them from annoying their roommate with their late nights (my roommate is one of them), 2.) Spend too much time procrastinating, 3.) Don't put priorities in order (going to a basketball game at 7, doesnt end till 9:30 or 10, then start studying for that test they have at 8 AM)</p>
<p>I'm almost always in bed by 12:30 AM, 1:30 at the latest. Usually around midnight and get up around 8:00 most days.</p>
<p>BTW, 420 is my birthday :)</p>
<p>I know for a lot of kids in Ann Arbor, caffeine pills are a staple.</p>
<p>However, at other places--not so much. It might depend on the college. I can definitely see why kids at Berkeley would be studying so hard.</p>
<p>I've seen lots of people pull all-nighters around the time big papers are due.</p>
<p>Depends on the school and your workload. I've never heard about more than 2 consecutive all-nighters, and there's only one person I know who maybe had to do two in a row (they were also taking a double course load at Caltech...). You can get by with only very little sleep for a few days, but it's not the kind of thing you want to make a habit.</p>
<p>If you like to carry a heavy courseload and push yourself, there should be a few times a semester where the planets align and you have to pull an all-nighter.</p>
<p>Getting sleep is important. The End.</p>
<p>No...seriously! I've actually only pulled one all-nighter and I am a double major in commercial music and pre-clinical psychology w/ 9-11 classes and 18+ units/semester plus working 20-40 hrs/wk and having an active social life!</p>
<p>So no, you shouldn't have to pull all-nighters most of the time as long as you do a good job prioritizing, but you have to be efficient with your time and realize there will be weeks where you have 3-5 tests and twice as many papers due all in the same week. Good luck!</p>
<p>i dont sleep because of non-academic problems
cant get them out of my head
i probably need help</p>
<p>TS... whats goin on? Social stuff or something?</p>
<p>Perhaps you can provide us a link to the UCB study, as obviously studying for hours on end is not a case for most students.</p>
<p>I generally get sleep for most of the nights; and I have to say, I'm one of the more hardcore studiers. I know at UMich, generally engineering / pre-med majors sleep at around 2-3 AM and wake up at around 6-7 to start again. Then again... that's only a few of them that I know do that...</p>
<p>It all comes down to course load, time management, and social stuff. The only times I've gotten less than 6 hours a night was when I just couldn't sleep, or was out doing something fun. I start studying for tests as soon as I know about them, and cramming the night before has never worked for me. Also, I've learned when to give up. I start my homework early enough that I can stop and go to the professor the next day, before it is due. No use staying up all night working on one problem when 15 minutes of help can fix it!</p>
<p>I've never pulled an all-nighter, and never would. Going to school and everything the day after 4-5 hours of sleep is bad enough.</p>
<p>I've never gotten less than 2 hours of sleep. And I've probably only had about 2-3 2 hour nights since I've been in college. But I'm only a freshman, I'm sure it may get worse. But it wasn't all because of school work, I have a procrastination problem and I'm dealing with a lot of personal issues, so most of my non-sleep is from stress about the non-academic part of my life. But usually when I get home i'm so sore (dance major) and tired that I can fall asleep fairly easily.</p>
<p>I'm one of those pesky design students. In architecture, yeah, about 90% of the students were up at least one night the week before major projects were due, if not most of the nights. After a while they start to develop a weird sort of continuous work for 8 hours, sleep for 2 hours schedule. But that's of course not going to be everyone's experience, and there were students that managed not to have to do that. A lot of people in my new major will be up all night before the project is due as well, but that's actually rather unnecessary IMO...half the time they're just goofing off which is why they never get anything done. </p>
<p>My worst stretch of time is when I had an advanced design class over the summer...met 3 times a week and got a new project every time that students would have ordinarily been given a week to do. That's when I learned that too many 4-hour nights in a short time period makes me sick...fun, fun. I know someone that claimed to spend "all" her time studying outside of class, but it was because she apparently thought going out for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a second dinner with her boyfriend, sitting around for 2 hours watching tv every day, and getting drunk every weekend counted as "class time".</p>
<p>I'm an art major, and my school apparently has the toughest workload- ranked #1 even over MIT.</p>
<p>I've had a lot of sleepless nights... finals week last semester I slept 2 hours on Sunday, 4 hours on Wednesday, and finally crashed Friday night. That isn't normal for me, but I usually only get an average of 4 hours a night. </p>
<p>So it really depends on what you're taking, who your teachers are, what school, what major, whatever... and don't procrastinate.</p>
<p>No one has that much work. If you aren't getting sleep it is your own fault. I know the nights where I don't get sleep or only get a half an hour or so, that it is because I poorly managed my time. Furthermore, my school is known for one of the biggest workloads in the country. Do kids do it? Sure, but it is there fault. It is all about time management. If you are tired and almost falling asleep, don't go to class unless it is completely necessary, because you won't do anything productive and that time could have been used to sleep.</p>
<p>Caffeine Pills? Where do you get those? I'm not a coffee person and I need anything that can get me through my 3 hr philosophy night class. Damn those chairs, their killing my posterior!! </p>
<p>I'd rather not go to sleep if I had a test the following day. My strategy is study all night, because the reward outweighs sleep. I'll admit it, I've pulled a couple of "all nighters" but the feeling you get the next morning sucks. I always experience an eye strain and dizziness the day after. If I want a B then I can sleep peacefully, if I want a A then I can't. I agree with the posts above if you pace yourself and set time aside for studying then you should fair well. My dad in particular would urge me to go to sleep, considering I commute to and from school daily, and I had a cousin whose car got overturned on the highway because of sleep deprivation caused by a week of relentless studying.</p>
<p>I've never pulled an all-nighter, but I have stayed up til 3:30/4 or so working on a paper and then got up at 8:30/9. It sucks. I do not recommend it at all. One of my friends is a hardcore architecture kid and she regularly stays awake for days at a time with 4 or 5 hours of naps interspersed in there at random times. The other day she had been awake for 28 hours then got 4 hours of sleep, and then was awake again for 12 more hours before she got to actually sleep a decent amount.</p>
<p>Sleep is good.
from a Mother.</p>
<p>But a long time ago as a design student I missed alot of sleep working on finals week projects every year. And waiting in line to use the darkroom equipment until very late at night. I enjoyed the projects which makes a big difference.</p>
<p>i'm majoring in tahiti culture and it's so hard that i only get 16 hours sleep a night. i usually get 21 hours of sleep.</p>