have you ever pulled an 'all-nighter'? if so, what for and how many times?

Answer 1

I pulled more than a dozen all nighters. Always having to do with school - either exams or papers. In fact in undergrad I went five days without more than an hour of sleep per night. It took two weeks to recover.

Studying all night long if you have an exam the next morning has never worked out for me that well. I used to do a routine where I would study until I got very tired. Then I would take an hour nap, set the alarm and repeat the process. That actually worked okay.

I have found all nighters useful for getting a project done, like a paper or presentation. The down side is that it usually takes a couple days to fully recover from no sleep.

Answer 2

Im Doing It on the prompt..... I Had Six Months To Do A challenge and that i Procrastinated a lot! Now Im Sitting the following Cramming Six Moths of work Into 24 hours. I surely have Pulled An All Nighter before. many times U will be superb in case you're making Up For The Sleep You neglected. 12 Hours Of Sleep Will Make Up for twenty-four Hours neglected. Dont Lay Down only keep on with agency... Drink espresso Or some thing With Sugar Or Caffeine. the base line is you'd be superb. The Human body Can stay wide awake For seventy 2 hours.

Answer 3

Twice. In high school I stayed up all night writing my senior term paper. Finished it 15 minutes before I caught the school bus. Fell asleep in class and dreamed I had to have a footnote for every thought that entered my mind. Worst nightmare I ever had. Everytime I footnoted a thought, I had to footnote the thought about footnoting. There was no end to it!

I wrote that puppy out by hand, in ink, on notebook paper. If you made a mistake, you had to re-write the whole page! These days of course, we not only have word processors, we have a lovely little program called Endnote to help us manage our footnotes or endnotes and bibliographies. For the cash strapped, there is citation machine to help you get that formatting down.

Because of my nightmare, I finished college without any all-nighters, though there were days I only got an hour or two of sleep. And here's a bit of advice. A sleep cycle is about 90 minutes, give or take. If you sleep for just an hour, you will wake up in the middle of a sleep cycle and feel wretched all day. Best to skip it if you can't get a full 90 minutes.

In graduate school, I had a map assignment I'd already finished for the class, but I wanted to work on it for my master's thesis--no particular deadline. So I was in the cartography lab that night, burning CDs on one computer while I fine-tuned my map on another. At 7 AM, my professor walked in, I looked up and said, "I guess it's time to go home now." That was different. I didn't have a deadline to meet, I was just enjoying the work.

Answer 4

In high school I never had to. During my undergraduate degree it usually averaged to about 2-3 a semester. None in graduate school. All of my all-nighters were due to extreme procrastination. I'd say half were to finish writing papers and the remainder were for studying for exams. The worst is two in a row, which I had the misfortune of experiencing once. Thank goodness for energy drinks and candy bars.

Answer 5

During med school, we had plenty of all nighters for studying. I found that studying a little less and getting more sleep usually gave better results, though!

Answer 6

all nighters yes yesterday and i will again to night and i have about 6 times and i am 17

Answer 7

I've probably done it 2-3 times in college to finish a big paper, and 4-5 times just to hang out with friends.

Answer 8

yes i have to watch cartoons like family guy futurama and pee-wee's playhouse ect.
by the way the way did you know pee-wee was on again. its on adult swim at 11 o'clock which is the same as cartoon network only later in the day. and i have had 25-30 all nighters

Answer 9

Mainly in college, to get homework done or to party. Then after college I've stayed up late playing computer games. Now I'm lucky if I can stay awake until 11pm. :P Once you get to 25 or so and have to work full-time, it gets harder to go with no or little sleep.

Answer 10

Several times in my past. Occasionally for school, rarely for office work, sometimes for parties, and occasionally for marathon sex. (Not meaning to be be blunt here, just honest).