I just pulled my first all-nighter of my college experience

[Matt]

I feel like its a right of passage. I also feel like shit.

I'm just putting the finishing touches on my paper, entitled "Overpopulation In China: Two's Company, 1.3 Billion's a Crowd". Thank god I live so close to Circle K. 59 cents for 32 ounce drinks! What's not to love?

anyway, to make this thread worth a shit, do you remember your first all-nighter to study or write a paper?

[zorra_chiflada]

pfft ametuer

my first all nighter was in 12th grade.

[Matt]

pfft ametuer

Well, I'm sorry if some of us have a regular 6:30 pm bedtime. sometimes mommy lets me stay up till 7:00!

[Pres Zount]

"Overpopulation In China: Two's Company, 1.3 Billion's a Crowd"

I love that.

[GoldenFutterman]

An allnighter,cool,where was?:o a college

[Freebasser]

Every night is an all nighter for me :/

[abcdefz]

...the only all-nighters I've ever done were marathon typing sessions, when I used to hire myself out to do people's term papers. I'd usually pull $200-$300 in five or six days, twice a year. And that was '80's money! (y)

[Sarky Devotchka]

when I was in architecture, there were lots of all-nighters. it's one of the reasons I changed my major. In architectural history we had to design a roman bath and write a paper about it and after staying up all night designing it with my group, we realized that it looked like a huge penis. ha ha. oh well.

I also used to have a friday morning History of Western Europe Before 1500 lab at 8 a.m. where we had a paper due every week. I'd stay up til around 2 a.m. writing it the night before, then sleep until 5 a.m. and continue writing it, then go to class. The T.A. taught the lab and he was from Africa and had a very thick accent so it was pretty much straight torture. he was really nice and informative though. I think I pulled a B+, which was miraculous because I accidentally took the final without studying because the prof decided to make the final available to take on the last day of class, not on the scheduled day during finals week. so I showed up to class and everyone was getting their blue books and sitting down and I was like, "oh shit, okay...well, how much do I really know about Islam and King Charlemagne?" turns out I knew enough.

but not enough to know that I could've taken the final on the scheduled day if I wanted to. it's tough being a flake. :( I also flaked on another final in a class about WRITING TESTS, I didn't even show up! I had to take the test in his office while he made fun of me. I got an A, woo!

[Bob]

...the only all-nighters I've ever done were marathon typing sessions, when I used to hire myself out to do people's term papers. I'd usually pull $200-$300 in five or six days, twice a year. And that was '80's money! (y)

are you uh, still offering your services by any chance? i uh, know a guy, it's this friend of mine who might find them useful.

i've done a couple of all nighters, sort of. what usually happens is, i work until like 5-6 in the morning, and i realize that since i'm only going to get about 4 hours of sleep or so, it's really not worth the risk of oversleeping, so i might as well just stay up. you see the world slightly differently when you haven't slept, it's fun now and then.

[Matt]

...the only all-nighters I've ever done were marathon typing sessions, when I used to hire myself out to do people's term papers. I'd usually pull $200-$300 in five or six days, twice a year. And that was '80's money! (y)

did you do research and everything? I've done other people's papers (I'm also thinking of switching to a journalism major) and I've charged maybe 15-20 dollars a pop.

[befsquire]

i didn't have my first all-nighter until law school. so, i was about 31, which makes me staying up all night waaaaay more impressive. :)

what sucked was most of the time that i was up all night was when i was at home in orlando, and then i'd have to drive 2 hours to school. :(

[befsquire]

bob - i know a girl who may have, uh, already pretyped a paper that a guy you know would want to maybe ask about.

[abcdefz]

did you do research and everything? I've done other people's papers (I'm also thinking of switching to a journalism major) and I've charged maybe 15-20 dollars a pop.



...that was strictly typing. This was back before most people had computers, so a lot of folks would pony up $1.50 a page so they didn't have to type (and format) their own work.

If there were less than 24 hours to go, the rate went up to $3 a page.

ONE time I did actually write the person's paper for her, based on the notes she gave me. I charged her $150 for (i think) an 8 page paper. What was funny was she told me what grades she usually got in that class and she gave me one of her papers from before, so I could approximate her voice and her target grade. We pulled it off. :)

[ScarySquirrel]

I'm proud to say that I've never had to pull an all nighter. I don't really understand people that do, to be quite honest. Yeah, stuff piles up, but I'd rather be able to work on it while I'm semi-coherent instead of falling asleep on the couch or at the keyboard.

Just do your stuff ahead of time, that way you've got time to revise it and whatever the hell else... plus it gives you stress-free time to hang out and party without feeling guilty the next day! Yay for that, right?

[DIGI]

pull an all nighter.


Pffffftttt. HAHAHA.

[na§tee]

for the first two of my four years at university i pretty much did this most of the time.
it wasn't for lack of preparation - i would study, and take notes, and have shatloads of really appropriate material to consult/quote/whatever. it's just that i was so scared of actually sitting down to summarise it all creatively and eloquently and it sucking. i found most of my best work appeared at 4 in the morning the night before. also, when it was with film essays we normally had to do film analysis and that involved making some good shit up while watching terminator 2 or the searchers or gilda or boys don't cry or something and i found it helped.
i got my act together and found in much less stressful during my last two years which actually "counted" tho and it worked.
i got a first class degree. all my essays were As.

the worst was when the birds began to sing in the morning, oh lordy! i remember one of my first flatmates hollis from texas discussing how sad this was - how depressing. my boyfriend would always be fast asleep in bed behind me and i'd be thumping away at my laptop moaning sporadically with my flatmate who also did the same course, drinking crazy jungle coffee with guava or some crazy chemical shit in it with 10 teaspoons of sugar and munching on whatever snacks we had available.

the absolute best feeling was being able to brush your teeth clean of all that shit when yr essay/report was finished and go to bed for even a couple of minutes - ahhhh, bliss!

[DapperDiverge]

i used to stay up late in high school beacuse i was trying to finish homework cuz i was procastinaing... i'd go to bed at like 3:30am and wake up at 5:30am becaue i had to be at my bus stop by 6:49... and then school started at 7:20... i don't know how i did it... but then in college, i tried to limit my night work to at least 2:00am so i could have enough rest to remember what i was studying for and to overall not be so tired and cranky that i fuck up in all my other classes

[voltanapricot]

The last time I did that for some coursework my teacher marked around a huge chunk of my essay in red pen and wrote alongside it "were we feeling tired here?"

I don't do the all-nighter thing a lot anyway.

[Lindsey_1535]

I just go out till 5 in da morning and open at 8. never an all nighter for moi.

[Rancid_Beasties]

I'd rather hand it in late and take the either 2% per day penalty for my arts subjects, or 5% a day for my law subjects.

[Lex Diamonds]

All-nighters are awesome if you have enough drink and drugs. Otherwise you just get tired and depressed and end up trudging home at like 3am.

The coolest thing about all-nighters is how you can just sit down and relax pretty much anywhere, cuz there's no one else about. Graveyards, rooftops, random gardens. Another good thing to do is go around taking milk from people's doorsteps at about 5.30 after the milkman has been.

Ahh, good times.

[Rancid_Beasties]

If its an all nighter that has nothing to do with essays and stuff, then I am up for it, can be quite awesome being in the city at 6 am on a sunday morning, still pissed. Nobody around, nothing open, light enough to see everything though.