Poll: Just pulled my first college all-nighter, you ever done it?

[Lilani]

So here I am, more than 24 hours after the last time I woke up and without a wink of sleep inbetween. I had a horrible double case of procrastination and Skyrim this last week, leading me to pull an all-nighter to complete nearly an entire animation project in one night. I'm about halfway there, but it looks like I'll be able to make it before class this afternoon.

But I take it my fellow Escapists are much more responsible students than that, am I right?

 

[Scarim Coral]

Nope, never done it since I hate doing work by the last minute. I mean my some of my friend does it or work all night to get it perfect but I get to work on it early and on time. I just hate the feeling of being pressure and rushing it all.

 

[Jonluw]

Never done an all-nighter to finish schoolwork, but I don't know if I'd claim that's because I'm more responsible than that.

I've never decided to just skip some major assignment either though.

 

[Tazzy da Devil]

I've done it, and I'll do it again. My brain works better at night.

 

[Dandark]

Im lazy and probably procrastinate enough to make a dead body look like someone training for the Olympics.

So no, I have never done an all nighter, not sure if I could.

 

[Paladin2905]

Did it once, and almost did it twice more. Stopped when I did it the first time, then looked at my work the next day and was caught asking "what the crap was i thinking?". I swear you always think that you're doing awesome work, particularly coding, but you'll never understand yourself the next day. Even an hour of sleep does so much good for it.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Hehe.

Have I-

Hehehe.

Have I ever-

Hehehehe.

Have I ever done it?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


Short answer: Yes.

Usually done when I wanted peace and quiet in my writing. I'd gather all the info first and then take the hours of 12-6am to write it out in essay form. Did that several times in every year of University.

Also I did all night gaming sessions a few times, couldn't help it, Assassin's Creed was pretty addicting and/or I'd be on Gears of War all night. I remember my friend and I had a race to see who could beat Raam on Insane first. I won at around 3am. Neither of us cared until we got a good 12 hours sleep.

Ah, good times. I do miss the atmosphere of University. Best time of my life so far.

 

[Lionsfan]

I've never done one for school work, but several times I've done it for work.

 

[Colour Scientist]

I've stayed up in college for 24 hours for parties but never for assignments.
I work better in the mornings so I tend to get an early night and wake up ridiculously early.

 

[Leadfinger]

I've done it before, and I'll probably do it again because sometimes you have to get it out the door on time.

 

[Melon Hunter]

No, I've always slept on it and then found time in the morning. Also, I usually have to get up at about 6am most weekdays as I'm part of my college's rowing team, so I'm sleep-deprived enough as it is without staying up all night to finish work. That said, I will usually stay up until about 2am if I don't have to get up for rowing, as I find I work much better at night, rather than the afternoon/evening, where I feel tired and unmotivated.

 

[StBishop]

All night on an Assignment? Sure, all the time.

The night before on an assignment? Yeah, once, never again.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

I have multiple times, but only three times for school. All three were assignments for the same class, my high school government and economics class. I hated that class, but damnit did I respect it. one assignment was fifty fucking pages. Now that I'm in college, I have yet to write more than five on a single assignment (not quite a second-year in college, though mostly taking second-year level classes). I learned so much from those experiences.

 

[Berenzen]

Never done it on a night before an assignment was due, but I've pulled all-nighters trying to get an assignment done. I was in a game development class and our group set a deadline, but Skyrim was coming out the next day, so I buckled down, grabbed a couple cases of red bull and crunched it out. It was relatively bugless as well and worked well, as well, so I was happy about it. I wasn't able to play Skyrim the next day though because I was too busy sleeping.

 

[Yopaz]

I've done a few almost all nighters because I focus better at nights. I'll probably do it a lot more in the future.

 

[Areani]

Sure have! Sometimes voluntarily and sometimes not. Last time I did it was the night between last thursday and friday, writing a 6 page paper due friday. Like you OP I was also hit by procrastination pretty badly last week. I think it all worked out though.

 

[370999]

Never literrly, I've always managed to finish at like five or so and thus get a bit of sleep. nerves then usually compell you to hand it in on time and then I go back to bed. That's the worse though so suually I have it done on time but look over it the night before and submit it online (all our uni work has to be submitted online as well as in person)