I feel it is my duty to elaborate on my reasons for doing these ghastly events. Also, to expound on a few of my own adventures into the wee hours of the morning.
TO begin we must define what "all nighter" means. According to a survey I did, an all nighter is where you stay up all night and then go about your normal (or sort of normal) routine the next day without sleeping.
Using this definition, I have never done an all nighter. Also, I must say that I have never stayed up past 8am. So I am not an expert on this topic and so we will be looking at the special casses of staying up really late. Also, for the sake of ease, I will refer to staying up really late as all nighters.
First off, let me say that all-nighters are not bad (for certain reasons). At school there are just to many things going on and trying to juggle them all is hopeless. With, school, work, friends and sleeping, things have to give way to each other once in a while. I for the most part try not to give up sleep to much but there is defenatly less of it this year as compared to last.
On average I get about 7 hours of sleep each night.
For me, this Thursday, I have to turn in my Perspectives Book. That means that I have to redo a lot of drawings, alter them, write descriptions and put them into a book format. Then go and get it printed and bound. I will have some very late nights this next week as I spend hours sitting in computer labs working on this project.
The other reason for staying up all night, aside from school work, is friends. Night is when college students are "free" from school work, or its when they wont do it. So that is when things happen. This year so far, I have not gotten to bed before 2:30 am on a weekend. I have even had one night where I was up until 5am and another until 4am. A few nights ago I was up until 2:15 am watching a movie (bad idea, on a weeknight).
Last year there were also quite a few late nights for projects and other non-school things.
There was the time I stayed up all night talking with people and then drove a friend to the airport at 6:30am and the other time where I spent 6 hours straight, (from 11pm-5am) working on a computer model of a flashlight for a class.
Basically, all nighters are almost a necessity at college, at least a couple times each quarter, not only for work but for fun. The down side to staying up late is that it suppresses your immune system so it is easier to get sick and a lot of the next day is burned up in catching up on sleep. OR, as good college students do, you don't catch up and just add it to the sleep deficit that you already have. :) Oh, it is also really fun, especially after 3am or so becuase things get really funny.
5 comments:
Hi Levi -- We did enjoy your "all nighter essays" You are getting very witty! Thanks G.G ma
no all-nighters yet, levi????? shameful, really. You can't say you know 'what college life is really about' without having this crucial experience....
so many details can be added- like how at 2am, you finally pull yourself away from video games and Facebook to start the paper on which you've procrastinated for the past 3 weeks, at 3am, you consider going to sleep & finishing it the next morning, but decide to continue knowing you cannot will yourself out of bed. Then how you get a second wind by 4 am, and words start writing themselves by 5am, and by 6am you feel dyslexic, by 7 you have your 6th cup of coffee/caffeine of choice, by 8 am you brush your teeth & listen to the morning news, by 9am you walk off to class in a haze & turn in your paper. Depending on your schedule, you may or may not choose to skip classes for the rest of the day-- and once you get back home, you crash & sleep until dinner. Then you're right back on schedule!
Oh also, the general rule is that you NEVER re-read your paper after it's turned in (that 5am feeling of dyslexia does have unfortunate implications).
Yeah well there is the slight difference that I dont have to write papers. My classes are much more project based or Math and physics HW and Tests so there is no reason to stay up all night working on a project. Becuase if you havent started it already it is going to be really bad.
Oh, I also dont procrastinate very well.
-Levi
After a few months of not-too-diligent searching, I found your blogsite and have read backwards since December 15, 2008.
This is my favorite post.
I can remember a couple end-of-term all-nighters at Albion College and a few others more recently preparing some work. Kind of amazing how our bodies are able to recover.
just realized I never read this - makes me laugh thinking of my dad doing an allnigheter. But hillarious, and char is soo right. best part is preparing for one - have to make sure to buy your..ahem, "caffeine of choice" before stores close (orange monsters are fantastic), run around the apartment, take dance breaks to wake yourself up, check your email/facebook about a million times - problem is, no one emails between 3am and 7am so its all a waste of time. and i second char... dont ever read a paper that you finished 15 mins before you had to turn it in...even when you get the grade back: skim for the letter/number then put it away. far far away. I agree though, projects are much harder to do on no sleep... but Congrats anyway. best wishes as you perfect your new talent :) hahaha.
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