<p>I just completed it. 
Yeeey for me. Wrote 22,000 words… 17,000 in one night.</p>
<p>lol congratulations…</p>
<p>BEWARE. Although I’ve become a night owl and find my muse in the wee hours, my earliest all-nighters spent writing research papers generated stuff that was more akin to Jabberwocky. Indeed, it is my firmly held belief that Lewis Carroll was pulling his first ever all-nighter writing about the See of Devon and the Lord of Cornwall’s move to Exeter in 1050 when he came up with:</p>
<p>`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.</p>
<p>Which is exactly what my first all-nighter papers looked like when beset by the light of dawn unbidden. In other words, use spell check! And find a proof-reader. Considering it’s an autobiography, it could prevent the disclosure of certain facts to your teacher and classmates not meant for public consumption.</p>
<p>Imagine if you hadn’t spent all that time on CC and instead worked on your paper earlier…</p>
<p>I guess we wouldn’t be the same.</p>
<p>On the more serious topic of time wasting, I remember hearing a story about using ones time that went something like this…</p>
<p>A college professor walks into a lecture hall and puts a large glass jar on the lectern and proceeds to fill it to the brim with 5 or 6 fist sized rocks. He turns to his students and asks, “Is the jar full?”</p>
<p>One student replies that yes, it looks full, whereupon the professor pulls out a bucket of pea gravel from under the lectern and carefully pours it around the rocks, filling the glass jar to the brim once again. And then he asks again, “Is the jar full?”</p>
<p>At this point, the students started catching on and would not confirm that the glass jar was full.</p>
<p>So the professor pulls out a bucket of fine sand from under the lectern and proceeds to pour it into the the jar, shaking the jar to make the sand fill all the gaps around the pea gravel an rocks up to the brim. He once again turns to the students and asks, “Is the jar full?”</p>
<p>Now the students seeing that jar completely filled with rock, gravel, and sand agreed that finally the jar was full. </p>
<p>So the professor pulls out a pitcher of water from under the lectern and proceeds to carefully pour water through the sand, thouroughly soaking the contents of the glass jar until the water shone on top of the sand at the top of the glass jar. </p>
<p>He turned to the class and said, “Now the jar is full. And what can you learn from this about your time here at school?”</p>
<p>One student stood up and answered, “No matter how much you think you can do in a day, you can always fit in more.”</p>
<p>“No,” said the college professor. “I think you missed the point. If I had started by filling the glass jar with water or sand or pea gravel and then discovered that I needed to add some rocks, the existing contents of the jar would have spilled over and made a mess. By adding the big rocks first to the jar, I was able to fill in around it with smaller things and get a full jar while having a variety of contents. If you manage your day by adressing the big items first and filling in with smaller things around it, you will get the maximum possible into your day, while achieving all your objectives.”</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>I’ve probably butchered it a little, but I think the point is still valuable. Get those papers written on time and fill in with CC.</p>
<p>I also had an all-nighter at the same time as olivia did. we were both working on the same paper, though hers ended up being much longer!! i was so exhausted this morning i kept falling asleep in class! in history, my teacher actually told me to go and “get a breath of fresh air.”</p>
<p>all nighter sucks…first one’s fun, second one’s ok, third one sucks then the rest are hell</p>
<p>I had an all nighter each day of last week - it was horrible. All of last week is a blur, I don’t remember a thing :rolleyes:</p>
<p>WOW!!! I have a hard time getting up when I go to sleep at 10!!! Tonight might be my first all nighter…I have a lot of work to do!!! ttyl!</p>
<p>I’ve had many, many all-nighters. None of them were school-related. :D</p>
<p>Congratulations, by the way. ;)</p>
<p>If you are pulling an all nighter in 8th , 9th or 10th (unless it’s just for fun) there could be some serious adjustment ahead at top BS.It’s down to kidding around time , but this might be an issue for some to think about.</p>
<p>Suze
i read that in an earlier post you said that sleep deprivation was one problem at BS. at andover, on average how much sleep did u get during a school week ???</p>
<p>incidentally, i pulled several all nighters in HS for lame HS-type projects, but have yet to do one in college</p>
<p>the people i talked to at andover said that on bad nights when they were studying for hist 340 or something, they would stay up until 3 or 4 in the morning. i’m pretty sure 8 hours a night is pretty rare. i think on good nights they said 6ish.</p>
<p>one thing i know i’m good at is pulling all nighters ! a rare talent i am infinitely grateful for and i know will help me through BS (if accepted) and college years…i need to go to bed…</p>
<p>Bipolar people can survive with little sleep … but then they have a manic mood after that. Or is the manic mood the happy one? I read about it.</p>
<p>Wow, elpope. And I thought I would get the brunt of it in college! Where are you at school?</p>
<p>You will great the brunt of it in college, it’s just that the work isn’t so mindnumbingly stupid so I don’t put it off as much.</p>
<p>there are also never poster projects, which took me forever because it’s expected for them to look decent, ie, girls always get bonus points</p>
<p>I’m a lower at Andover…I usually get 7 hrs at best a night…most of the time about 6, but my course load isn’t too difficult this term. But now, I can hopefully get some more sleep because it’s</p>
<p>SPRING BREAK!</p>