<p>Usually cocaine, but sometimes I go running =)</p>
<p>cocaine was banned here but they are re badging it.</p>
<p>Red bull?? Coffee? I dont know, really, I havent had to pull an allnighter but I surely will next yearrr.</p>
<p>Play "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky at full blast...or maybe some heavy metal.</p>
<p>By the way, I haven't actually done that. I've never stayed up past 10:30 on a school night.</p>
<p>wow, are you serious proletariat2?</p>
<p>What, the first part or the second part? No for the first part, yes to the second. In my freshman year, I had a normal schedule with two honors classes (which, in contrast to some of you, is the hardest schedule we can take).</p>
<p>i never go to bed that early, school or not. well, on school nights i got to sleep at like 1115-1130. Summer i'm up til like 1-2, just watching tv or doing nothing in particular, lol.</p>
<p>I am at my best at 3 AM, no bean juice needed</p>
<p>Forget about the fancy techniques for staying awake longer at night.</p>
<p>Instead, get more of your work done during reasonable hours. If there's too much work to allow that, then learn to cut corners and to cut back on the Honors/AP classes and extracurricular activities. Sooner or later, you MUST face facts: You can't do everything in the world perfectly, and SOMETHING has to get the short end of the deal. Mariah Carey isn't that great at math, Michael Jordan isn't that great at baseball, Warren Buffett isn't that athletic, Mandy Moore can't bench-press 200 pounds, and Maya Angelou doesn't know particle physics.</p>
<p>In the unlikely event that following my suggestion causes admissions officers from each of the top 25 schools to show up at your home to chew you out, tell them to shove their extremist agenda somewhere that the sun doesn't shine. Of course, the reality is that they don't care about you one way or another because they have jobs to do and better do them well.</p>
<p>You won't get into Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Duke, etc., but guess what? Those schools are a long shot for EVERYONE, even those who qualify to be the next Albert Einstein, the next Mother Theresa, the next Michael Jordan, the next Jonas Salk, AND the next John Steinbeck. Trying to be just one of these "nexts" is plenty hard, much less trying to be them all.</p>
<p>So don't knock yourself out over something that's a longshot anyway.</p>
<p>I was one of the biggest drinkers of the Academic Performance Cult Kool-Aid back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Even though I defected from the cult, most of you make my old high school self look like Ferris Bueller, Zack Morris, or Jeff Spicoli in comparison.</p>
<p>I think the latest DS1 has ever stayed up (for school) is 1:30 AM -- for a group project where the other people left him holding the bag. He learned after that to set up deadlines and make phone calls early if stuff didn't arrive on time. Otherwise, he spends maybe an hour and a half on HW every night.</p>
<p>If he has a project that he knows is going to require a lot of concentration, he'll come home and take a 30-45 minute power nap. Works really well for him.</p>
<p>DS1 drinks a can of Jolt on mornings when he has SATs, SAT-IIs, APs, etc. Works for him. DS2 tried Jolt once and said "If Jolt does that to you, I'd hate to see what real drugs would do..."</p>
<p>DS2 is utterly useless in the schoolwork department after about 9 PM. He's a big, strapping kid who has grown eight inches inthe past two years, and he needs his sleep. He's got to do HW when he gets home or it's futile.</p>
<p>I don't get the all-nighter business. If you have to stay up that late to get good grades in HS, you are going to be in a WORLD of hurt when you get to college and have many other tempting distractions to keep you away from schoolwork.</p>
<p>music.</p>
<p>loud energetic broadway music is my preference.</p>
<p>Wow lol, ok thanks for all the replys, some good info i guess.</p>
<p>For me, Dr Pepper is energy in a bottle. Seriously. I would never have been able to read the 6th Harry Potter book in one sitting without it. :D</p>
<p>do it earlier and dont leave it for the last minute</p>
<p>Yerba Mate</p>
<p>There was a week towards the end of school when every night, I basically only got 30 minutes of sleep. The only thing that got me through that hell was calling my friend every hour on the hour, to make sure we were both still up. And then, of course, I drank a lot of Redbull. But after a while, you don't really feel the effects, because, like any other drug, your body starts building tolerance to it.</p>
<p>Solving Rubik's Cube multiple times in a row always wakes me up for some reason...</p>
<p>redbull!
addicted</p>
<p>starbucks
coke (drink LAWLZ!)
music
sometimes talking to people</p>