<p>pshh pulling all-nighters is ridiculous...tho i'm not in college yet i can relate (im a junior in hs and people say it's suppoed to be the thoughest year ever..) but i always try to i sleep 8 hours a day (and at least 6). if you have to pull all-nighters it's eitehr 1. you're stupid and shouldn't take the class or 2. you're being awfulling inefficient with your time/you procrastinate too much. haha and i love sleeping so yeah</p>
<p>College is a lot different, Narcissa. Sometimes, it's completely necessary to pull all-nighters even when you've kept up with the work.</p>
<p>Although lacking statistical integrity, this makes sense. After all, the student who pulls an all nighter is probably doing so to compensate for days when partying seemed like a better idea than studying. With this attitude, it's no wonder his GPA isn't as high as the studious Asian next door.</p>
<p>It doesn't take into account that those who don't pull all-nighters may be the less ambitious --> easier classes --> higher GPA.</p>
<p>Confounding variable!</p>
<p>How ironic that I'm studying for AP Stats right now, pulling an all-nighter! :P</p>
<p>Small sample size, and didn't seem to control for anything (e.g. major, whether or not someone has a job, etc.). Useless.</p>
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It doesn't take into account that those who don't pull all-nighters may be the less ambitious --> easier classes --> higher GPA.
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Because it's the same as taking into account that those who don't pull all-nighters might prefer the color green; baseless, unfounded, and totally irrelevant.</p>
<p>All-nighters are completely unnecessary; the only reason people ever need to do them is because of their own procrastination (except in those rare cases such as having a full-time job, or some extenuating circumstance). There is simply no other reason. I would know; I have a hell of a lot of (school)work to do, and so do many people I know. Some pull all-nighters, some don't. The ones who pull all-nighters do so NOT because they have more work than the rest of us, but because they put everything off until the last minute (obviously).</p>
<p>Unless you participate in some activity that takes a huge time commitment (full time job, varsity sport), some decent time management skills will ensure that you never have to pull an all-nighter. I have never had to pull an all-nighter in college and I never will. I don't believe in them.</p>
<p>Folks, there are MANY variables. My daughter, who is majoing in design at University of Cincinnati is NOT a partier. She, however, has to work very hard and put in several late nights each week in order to finish her projects correctly. She also has a 3.7+. </p>
<p>I should note that some of the other top students in design and architecture regularly put in the same amount of hours or more. Thus, I really do think that it depends on the major and the comittment of the student.</p>
<p>I pulled three all-nighters this past quarter, and I do not party. I work 20 hours a week, overload on classes, and do MANY extracurriculars on campus. This study, as are many, is flawed. And, my college GPA is relatively high.</p>
<p>This is silly. I do procrastinate (never party), and I don't pull all-nighters, but I stay up past 4 a.m. pretty often, and I think my cumulative average is going to be an A / A- (I'm a first-year, in the midst of finals.) It's unfair to draw conclusions. Everyone has a different schedule on which they function and times at which they work best</p>
<p>I think it's sort of ridiculous how so many people are suggesting that everyone who pulls all nighters does so out of lack of proper planning or excessive partying when they should have been doing homework. I start my work almost immediately when I get home and work very efficiently and have never finished my homework before 11:30-12:00. (usually 2 or so). This is true for many of my classmates and friends who attend other similarly competitive schools. I agree that many may pull an all nighter because they spent their time doing something else. But those people are not significant for the purposes of the college obsessive community of CC. If you haven't had to pull an all nighter because of sheer workload, either: your course load is too light or your school is too easy.</p>
<p>The statistics of this are all wrong.</p>
<p>Who's going to skip sleep?
Those who wait until the last minute to study or do work.</p>
<p>Flawed experiment= flawed results</p>
<p>I agree that the experiment is flawed, but I sense that a lot of the comments above are misguided. It is unfair to have the preconcieved notion that students pulling all-nighters are procrastinators, party animals, and lacking motivation. This was a sample of just 120 students, but not all students are the same. Some are athletes. Some work full time jobs. There are also students out there who are very bright, but suffer from learning disabilities. Those students are extra motivated, less likely to party hard, AND they are very likely to find themselves pulling all nighters.</p>
<p>Well, yes, also consider that people who stay up all night are otherwise taking several hard classes and or extra curricular.</p>
<p>My D has as good a gpa as she could get at her school, is proactive, organized and stays up all night at least a couple of times a week. It just goes with the territory if your schedule is rigorous.</p>
<p>A related article that might shed some light on this, from Scientific American:
"Sleep, Attention, and Memory: Not (Maybe) What You Thought"
Sleep</a>, Attention, and Memory: Not (Maybe) What You Thought Blogs Scientific American Community</p>
<p>(Summary: sleep deprivation effects formation of memories - so the students who pull all nighters might be less capable of retaining whatever information they are exposed to the following day)</p>
<p>ARE WE REALLY SURPRISED??
students who have to stay up all night most likely procrastinated too much, and the quality of work done without sleep is obviously less than the quality of that with sleep.</p>
<p>so wrong...all students in my IB school have pulled all-nighters...i myself have pulled a great deal of them, but my work is always good and i have a 98% grade (41.4 out of 42 in IB - without EE and TOK)</p>
<p>If students pull an all-nighter it doesn't necessary mean that they're procrastinators. Just last week, I went to sleep every day between 4 and 5am just the get all the school work done. It was terrible, but I got good grades in everything; plus I'm in the top 3% of my class. Also, the people in my class who most often pull all-nighters are the people who do well, that is because the procrastinators just don't care about school and sleep whatever they want.</p>
<p>Why is this a surprise to anyone? There have been many studies over the years showing that people who study new material for a short time, then sleep, do much better on tests the next day than those who stay up all night studying. The brain does not work well when sleep deprived. Duh.</p>
<p>I graduated magna cum laude from a competitive college. The latest I ever stayed up working was 2:30 am. Unless you have sadistic professors who give major/large projects with ridiuclously short time-lines, all-nighters should be very RARE. it's all about being organized.</p>
<p>DH attended the same college as me. He once stayed up all night writing a paper, and since this was back in the old days, I stayed up and typed it for him. But even he will admit he that back then he was not organized, never outlined papers before writing them, and had no sense of "closure" - continuing to work on one paper/project until it was perfect, when he needed to let that paper go and move on to the next one.</p>
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I start my work almost immediately when I get home and work very efficiently and have never finished my homework before 11:30-12:00.
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<p>Yea, and your name is IBProcrastinator...</p>
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If you haven't had to pull an all nighter because of sheer workload, either: your course load is too light or your school is too easy.
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<p>Not necessarily, some people just don't slack off. Me personally, I do all nighters because I slack off all the time as well as working 25 hours per week. Course Load can play a factor but ultimately it is up to the student to manage their time well and finish work.</p>
<p>Your reasoning is ridiculous and you are pompous.</p>