<p>Whats your drug of choice? I use energy drink because coffee is too hard on my stomach, and soda doesnt have enough caffeine. I only do it around exam time though because i dont wnat to develop an addiction</p>
<p>I have only drank Red Bull once and it's nasty. And, my bio teacher in high school scared me away from it by telling me that "you'll stay awake now, but you don't know what it will do to your body in 20 years". So my vice is coffee.</p>
<p>I only use energy drinks in Jager bombs, and I only drink Rockstar. Drinking energy drinks to help me study either gives me a terrible headache or makes me really jittery.</p>
<p>I know many people who consider Red Bull to be extremely tasty. I know many who hate it like smurfette.
I happen to adore the taste of Red Bull but I can't stand coffee. Nasty stuff.</p>
<p>Bawls when I need a big caffeine rush.
Starbucks bottled fraps when I just want a perk up.</p>
<p>Redbull. Coffee doesn't seem to affect me much beyond keeping me awake (can't sleep but have no energy), and soda makes me too jittery.</p>
<p>Also smurfette, I hope you aren't a bio major, because I can only imagine the number of the things you'll need to unlearn.</p>
<p>I know redbull is bad for my liver, but its not going to destroy it 1 week a year. coffee, however, will put my stomach in knots right away.</p>
<p>Pills are always an option</p>
<p>Are Red Bull and Rockstar practically the same thing?</p>
<p>The taurine in Red Bull gives me the runs... So yeah... Coffee it is.</p>
<p>I stick with sugar-free full throttle.Gives me the energy of a regular full throttle,minus the jitters and crash.Plus its the best tasting sugar free drink.</p>
<p>I used to drink amp or rockstar occasionally during finals. In june my sister told me i should try redline because it works really well. Bad, Bad, horrible idea. I didn't sleep for three days and felt shaky and had high blood pressure the entire time (never, ever had any of these effects from the lower strength drinks). And I only had FOUR OUNCES of the stuff. </p>
<p>It completely turned me off energy drinks and now during finals I just deal with being tired and have figured out how to stay awake without the crap.</p>
<p>A cigarette or two. Red bull works, but only to a certain extent: after 30 mins-1hr...gg.</p>
<p>You want to force yourself to go outside in the cold and smoke a cig. Feeling tired again? hit another jack. repeat as necessary</p>
<p>Coffee, also because it is cheap :)</p>
<p>i drank 30 cans of red bull in the month of december alone (finals and such). it doesn't really do much. people who say they were up for 3 days are completely exaggerating. i dont really see how they can be that bad for you..</p>
<p>I operate on adrenaline. No caffiene for me.</p>
<p>There's nothing like taking a test first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. I am 14 for 14 with getting A's that way so it must work.</p>
<p>I heard so much hype about REDLINE. I did an 8oz of it and it did NOTHING for me. NOTHING.</p>
<p>cocaine might help too.</p>
<p>I try and avoid caffeine in most situations, because too much of it brings dependency. But last summer in NIAHD (an American history program at William and Mary), we would get back to the dorms around 9:30 each night after a full day of field trips and the like. Then we had to do the next day's reading (which admittedly was usually only 30 pages or so and didn't take too long) and write the day's essay. The essays just piled up...I bought a few tins of caffeine mints (2 are the equivalent of one soda's caffeine) and ate about 8-10 at 11pm. As I worked, I'd munch on some more. Then I'd be jittery, but awake enough to do my essays.</p>
<p>Man, though. When you have caffeine in those quantities, you really do realize that it is a bonafide drug. My hands were quaking, I was twitchy, and I couldn't stop from jiggling my leg. Then, when you finally do go to sleep, it's a bad, shallow sleep and a long, head-achey morning. </p>
<p>Not something I'd rely on for run-of-the-mill finals, at any rate.</p>
<p>Your roommate's Ritalin or Adderoll? Significantly cheaper than firewalker's suggestion.</p>
<p>Or, you could just get sleep, study ahead of time, and eat balanced meals. Your call.</p>