The 'Night Owl' Thread

[Elessar]

It's 23:31, and I'm supposed to be making a Java GUI.

[icarus]

it's 8:55 and I supose to work at the moment. Well back to work than. (still peeking at the forum at work at the time now)

[PirateKingChris]

I was up till 5AM this morning because I didn't feel well 

[tessspoon]

Out of my entire two and half year college career, I've only ever pulled an all-nighter once, and it was writing a story for fun rather than anything for school.

[snabbott]

Out of my entire two and half year college career, I've only ever pulled an all-nighter once, and it was writing a story for fun rather than anything for school.

Wow! Good job! I pulled a lot of all-nighters in college, but I eventually figured out that I just don't function without sleep. I've pulled a few all-nighters to meet work deadlines - I REALLY need to not do that anymore!

[tessspoon]

Wow! Good job! I pulled a lot of all-nighters in college, but I eventually figured out that I just don't function without sleep.

I have to get at least 6 hours in order to function at all which is why I haven't done so.

[Yonkey]

Same here.  I never pulled any all-nighters because my mind completely stops functioning between 2 and 7 AM.

[Petra Rocks]

I've only been in college a year and a half, but I don't do all nighters for the same reason. I did a few times in high schools for computer games, but that's another story.

[atec123]

I did a all nighter, and then fell asleep during lunch and slept for 2 hours.

[Deloria]

I've only been in college a year and a half, but I don't do all nighters for the same reason. I did a few times in high schools for computer games, but that's another story.

I've killed my biological clock and the only person here, who could tell me when my brain stops functioning, would be you.  

[Delling]

I have pulled one all-nighter that I can remember. I don't recall having any all-nighters in college... I think I may have tried once... but just couldn't do it...

So, the one all-nighter I pulled was in the 6th grade. I had to do a "My Nation" notebook. Only my school, in an effort, I believe, to stave off the development of narcolepsy in its teachers required us to each do a different nation (instead of everyone doing a "My Nation" notebook on the US as the textbook provider who provided the notebook had intended). I had to do Iceland, and being in 6th grade and not having done this type of project before (the textbook provider provided things like My State notebook, My [...] notebooks for earlier grades, which the rest of my class had done but I was new to the school and so hadn't done them), I put it off to the last minute thinking it wouldn't be any more or at least not much more involved than previous projects that I'd had to do. My dad, my sister, and I were up until something like 5 in the morning finishing that terrible thing. *still has an initial negative reaction at the mere mention of Iceland* *shudders to think about it*

That is why you shouldn't pull all-nighters: Iceland. Or, at least, that is why I don't pull all-nighters.

[atec123]

Mine was last year.  It was at a gym and we did a lot on tiring stuff there.

[Rosella]

It's 1:06 AM. I'm up because I stayed home sick the past two days so I got to sleep in. This is very bad for a number of reasons.

1) I have to get up in 4 hours.
2) I have my CIW certification exam tomorr--Er...today.
3) I have a sleepover/party thing Saturday night, so there's no way I'm getting sleep on the weekend. XP

And I've pulled all-nighters lots of times. XP Freshmen year, all of my bus-mates thought I was absolutely crazy because I'd come to school with 0-3 hours of sleep most days. I had time-management/homework issues freshmen year. This year I haven't had to go without sleep entirely, but I did stay up until 3 one day (keeping in mind I get up at 5) because of my calculus scrapbook. It's this recurring assignment where every 2 weeks we have to add another section to our "book" (which is, for most people, a power point. I have a website,) about, well, calculus-type stuff. It's a lot of work.

[Deloria]

I have pulled one all-nighter that I can remember. I don't recall having any all-nighters in college... I think I may have tried once... but just couldn't do it...

So, the one all-nighter I pulled was in the 6th grade. I had to do a "My Nation" notebook. Only my school, in an effort, I believe, to stave off the development of narcolepsy in its teachers required us to each do a different nation (instead of everyone doing a "My Nation" notebook on the US as the textbook provider who provided the notebook had intended). I had to do Iceland, and being in 6th grade and not having done this type of project before (the textbook provider provided things like My State notebook, My [...] notebooks for earlier grades, which the rest of my class had done but I was new to the school and so hadn't done them), I put it off to the last minute thinking it wouldn't be any more or at least not much more involved than previous projects that I'd had to do. My dad, my sister, and I were up until something like 5 in the morning finishing that terrible thing. *still has an initial negative reaction at the mere mention of Iceland* *shudders to think about it*

That is why you shouldn't pull all-nighters: Iceland. Or, at least, that is why I don't pull all-nighters.

Oh no. Hating Iceland is very wrong indeed.

[tessspoon]

I have pulled one all-nighter that I can remember. I don't recall having any all-nighters in college... I think I may have tried once... but just couldn't do it...

So, the one all-nighter I pulled was in the 6th grade. I had to do a "My Nation" notebook. Only my school, in an effort, I believe, to stave off the development of narcolepsy in its teachers required us to each do a different nation (instead of everyone doing a "My Nation" notebook on the US as the textbook provider who provided the notebook had intended). I had to do Iceland, and being in 6th grade and not having done this type of project before (the textbook provider provided things like My State notebook, My [...] notebooks for earlier grades, which the rest of my class had done but I was new to the school and so hadn't done them), I put it off to the last minute thinking it wouldn't be any more or at least not much more involved than previous projects that I'd had to do. My dad, my sister, and I were up until something like 5 in the morning finishing that terrible thing. *still has an initial negative reaction at the mere mention of Iceland* *shudders to think about it*

That is why you shouldn't pull all-nighters: Iceland. Or, at least, that is why I don't pull all-nighters.

My sister did something like that last year. She had a video project due, and her team members came over to do the last half of it the day before. Eventually they had to leave, and she was going to finish it up. By the time she did, it was already getting late, and then stupid windows movie maker crashed everytime she tried to save it as a movie file. Her, me, and my dad were up till 1-2 in the morning trying to get it to work; she eventually just copied the project and all the files it needed(which was a lot) and ran the project inside WMM during the presentation.

[PirateKingChris]

*shudders* Stupid school projects...I always hated that they made you stay up way too late doing them and then made your insides boil being nervous about presenting them

[Petra Rocks]

One of the advantages of being homeschooled is that I never had to worry too much about that sort of thing. I never had to worry about group projects for better or for worse.

Ah, and it's 4 Am.

[Yonkey]

I never had to worry about group projects for better or for worse.

Really?  Did you ever have to participate in group activities (like charades or plays) at family reunions?

[Petra Rocks]

Reunions? The only thing we do at our reunions is eat (a lot) and talk (also a lot). No plays or anything like that. Most of the people who actually show up are middle aged and don't see each other except at the reunion, trying to get everyone to do a play would simply never work.

That said I was on a debate team for a year and planned activities like the math games tournament for a pack of 6th graders, so it isn't like I have no experience working in groups. It just wasn't part of what we counted as 'school'.

[snabbott]

One of the advantages of being homeschooled is that I never had to worry too much about that sort of thing. I never had to worry about group projects for better or for worse.

Ugh! I did. When I took AP Physics, our teached decided to give us a project that they did at MIT - build a device to play tug-of-war with someone else's device. It was a cool concept, but I didn't have any kind of engineering experience. I knew my partner's idea wouldn't work, but I couldn't say anything because I didn't have any better ideas.  That was one of the worst classes I ever took - the teacher didn't even teach us anything; he just told us stories about when he lived in Russia and made crude jokes. Fortunately, I had a really good physics teacher in college, and calculus-based physics made SO much more sense to me!