<p>any advice on how to get through the following school day? i do not handle lack of sleep well AT ALL, and i'm out of whack just by missing an hour. so any much needed advice for me? </p>
<p>this will be my first actual allnighter, btw</p>
<p>This is really random, but I tend to wring my hands when I’m tired because it’s mildly painful and it keeps me awake.
I recommend drinking an energy drink before school, if you can. (The coffee-flavored ones are less “intense,” if you don’t like the regular ones.) If you don’t consume caffeine a lot, regular coffee will work too. Caffeine will make you crash in the afternoon, but by that time some of the sleepiness will have worn off.</p>
<p>The most sleep I usually end up missing is usually around an hour or two. To get through that, I just bring a lot of snacks and chew gum throughout my classes to help me stay awake. If that doesn’t help, I just literally go to sleep every chance I get. For example, If my teacher decides to show a video, I sleep through that or sleep through any break I get here and there like maybe I’m just done with my work early.</p>
<p>Its different for different people…I’ve pulled over 10 so far? (no joke, I have terrible time management). Best way to cope with an all nighter is…to have school off the next day. Happened when school got called off due to snow at 5am during an all nighter, so I just dropped the book and slept until 9am.</p>
<p>-Tea, or if you really really need it, caffeine pills (and have your friends take a few vids of you while you’re on it)
-an easy jog around the corridors during “bathroom breaks” and “drinks,” keeps me going.
-listening to music that pumps you up</p>
<p>basically, its keeping your heart rate up until you can crash. Its surprisingly easy…adrenalin kicks in fairly easily. Maintaining it is a different story. I wish you luck, it truely differs from person to person. Since I go to bed late every night, like 1:30 every other night (again, sucky planning on my end), stretching it a few more hours isn’t as bad as is for those who hit the sack at 10.</p>
<p>what do you need to do? if you dont have to pull one, i suggest you DONT. its hard to recover, you’ll feel like dying the whole day, and you will regret it STRONGLY. </p>
<p>IMO, staying up until 12:00 four nights in a row,is better than pulling ONE all-nighter. </p>
<p>but if you really have to, then try to avoid the following during the day:
- Gym
- Tests
- Interactions with classmates and teachers
- Classical Music
- Sofas</p>
<p>well, i have a test that i didn’t study for at ALL or even remotely pay attention in class/look over the material for. and it’s one of those tests where it’s all on you. ids and essay and ugh</p>
<p>then i have a presentation and paper due on thursday that requires actual library research, which i have not even started, let alone picked a topic for.</p>
<p>and then there’s my other project and lab due tomorrow.</p>
<p>but thanks, guys!!</p>
<p>^Good luck, jeeeeeeeez.</p>
<p>good luck! the all nighter will be painful, but in a month or so, it will be something you will be laughing at!</p>
<p>LOL yeah i might drop dead before i even get to school tomorrow (｡◕‿◕｡)</p>
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<p>People get good judgment from experience, and they get experience from bad judgment.</p>
<p>Several more experiences like this, and you will start to plan ahead.</p>
<p>Try sleeping in class then getting your friends to wake you up when needed.</p>
<p>Remember, procrastination isn’t a problem if you can do it successfully.</p>
<p>off my thread, repede!! off!</p>
<p>and haha, @socaldad2</p>
<p>You’re in high school. Under no circumstances do you need to pull an all nighter to study for a test. You should’ve started studying a few says ago…</p>
<p>no! really?</p>
<p>thank you for that groundbreaking observation</p>
<p>because, at this point, i’m not severely regretting my procrastination </p>
<p>and it’s not just for a test</p>
<p>Well, lesson learned.</p>
<p>LOL sry i get sassy when i’m under stress</p>
<p>okay, so maybe I’m weird, but I recover relatively quickly from all-nighters. Although, it’s different if I’ve been pulling all-nighters for a week (it wasn’t actually necessary for me to do that, it was when I was at a summer program). </p>
<p>Anyways, I usually recover if, on the next day, I take a 15 minute nap.</p>
<p>I’m the type of person who gets screwed over by Daylight Saving’s Time though, when we lose an hour.</p>
<p>dudeee omg i never pulled an all nighter but once i went on like 3 hours of sleep i fell asleep in band :(</p>
<p>bring gatorade with you!</p>
<p>Ok, I’ve pulled lots of all-nighters (13 classes this year), so I’ve got a lot of experience here.</p>
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<li><p>Set alarms right now. You should make a jarring tone every 15 minutes or so. This’ll make sure you don’t fall asleep. Also, at every alarm, do something physically active, even if its just walking across the room, doing a single push-up, or lifting Campbell’s Biology over your head for five seconds.</p></li>
<li><p>Posture is important. Sit upright at your desk. NEVER do schoolwork in the bed. (This may sound obvious, but a lot of people do.) It’ll keep you alert, and you’ll get your work done sooner.</p></li>
<li><p>Your goal shouldn’t be to go to finish before school its time to go to school. Your goal is to get it done ASAP. Get your adrenaline going. You’ve got to do it right, and you’ve got to do it fast. If you put your mind to it, you may be able to finish with a couple hours to spare.</p></li>
<li><p>If you can take a nap at some point, great! However, (1) Make sure someone will wake you up, unless you react to alarms very well (even people who normally wake up easily may not do so after staying up all night), and (2) Take a power nap (10-15 minutes), or a 2 hour+ sleep. Sleeping for 90 minutes will make you more, not less, tired.</p></li>
<li><p>Unless you need it for schoolwork, turn off all electronics. Assuming you don’t need wi-fi, turn it off as well. DON’T LET YOURSELF GET DISTRACTED. That’s the #1 reason all-nighters are torturous. Most of the time, it’s possible to finish the work in 3-4 hours.</p></li>
<li><p>If you’re taking a test in the morning, carefully weigh sleep/knowledge. Personally, I find that an extra hour of studying trumps an extra hour of studying, but that’s a personal decision.</p></li>
<li><p>The next day, take thorough notes (ALWAYS paraphrase). It will keep you engaged, make sure you don’t miss anything, etc.</p></li>
<li><p>Don’t talk too much. Please follow this rule. I beg you. You wouldn’t believe all the stupid things I’ve said after all-nighters. (For example, I said that Horrid wrote the Odyssey. >_<)</p></li>
<li><p>If you have friends who sit near you (good friends), ask them to poke you every so often. If they are really good friends, they’ll do it constantly, and you’ll be so ticked off that you wake up. ;)</p></li>
<li><p>Be confident (tonight, not tomorrow; if you’re confident tomorrow, you’ll act like an ignoramus)! First semester last year, I wrote 6 essays. 3 were written as all-nighters. Here were my grades: 88 (sleep), 98 (all-nighter), 92 (sleep), 100 (all-nighter), 86 (sleep), 92 (all-nighter), 89 (sleep).</p></li>
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<p>Good luck, and stop following this thread!</p>