Anyone tried pulling an all nighter?

[turkishgirl]

Please, if anyone survived the first 2 months of ib, All nighter probably became their middle name. Me, myself, i got used to sleeping only few hours per night. Because i am always behind "something", which probably is a very familiar situation to all of you.

[∫ Jorge δx]

I pulled an all-nighter a pair of days ago to finish my EE rough draft.

However, this was permissible, since it was on a weekend and I wanted to get the damn essay out of the way.

[Maljkovic]

More or less the entire grade pulled an all nighter last night to finish our World Lit Comparatives and Infinite Summation Math Portfolios. I was one of the lucky few who didn't loaft (as much).

Edited November 15, 2010 by Maljkovic

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I went two weeks with only ten minute power naps when i needed it because I was doing so much extra stuff. (second term of starting IB)

I got chronic fatigue. havent had an all nighter since.

[wombat123]

I recently pulled my first all-nighter, and three other close friends of mine pulled one the very same night. The next day I shifted in and out of a sporadic sleep.

[katevanb]

I have pulled two official ones this year. Stellar numbers, giant art project, and tonight will be for starting and finishing a portfolio in 10 hours. yum.

i think the main thing is procrastination.

coffee helps.

thankgod i work at starbucks:)

[Juanse93]

I have not slept in 26 hours... I'm getting freak

[Bishup]

Nearly pulled one today. Only 3 hours of sleep. This was to finish my History IA. DUM DUM DUM

[Imma Be]

I can't sleep anymore so it does not matter much. Every night is an all nighter for me. Saturdays and Sundays I can't sleep either. It's like i'm running on some weird I.B. clock lolz.

But I get super energy throughout the day so it's not a big deal.

Plus, I do my best work at night.

And I laughed when I saw this thread. All nighters or going to bed very late are normal things for I.B. students. lolz

Sleep is a nonexistent word in the I.B. students vocabulary.

[azulverde:)]

all nighters are not that fun. ive spent at least 4 completely sleepless nights... last night was one so i should go to sleep

[jbird]

Wow, I can't imagine pulling an all nighter. Probably the least amount of sleep I've gone on is 4 hours. Unfortunately, I just crave sleep to the point where anything less than 7 hours is painful. I get grouchy, rude, and miserable, with a splitting headache all day. I think I have an abnormally high need for sleep. Anyone else like me? Or am I just a weakling?

[cherrylemonade]

I feel like if I'm sleeping, I'm slacking. For real. When I get more than four hours of sleep, I'm just being a spoiled, procrastinating baby. I run on power naps and caffeine. It would help if the due date of some huge project weren't always in sight. My teachers need to do some more collaboration or something, because in one week, a Math Portfolio Task, the History IA, a TOK Oral, a Music Composition, and two English essays were due.

[Mar Le Devine]

I did this terrible mistake when i tried to pull an all nighter last year during our pre-ib end-of-year Exams. it worked great, but i figured out that it didn't work for the following days because i just felt like i would drop dead everywhere i would go, hence my performance level went down to zero, and did really poorly on those exams but i somehow managed to pass them

i'm not a fan of caffeine and i rarely drink coffee. I'm sure you can pull at least 5 all nighters in a row with the help of it, but there are also downside effects of it (shaking hands, oversensitiveness) so i wouldn't really recommended to do that, but....what the hell, it's IB after all. Probably this will turn out to be my Last Resort plan when it comes to IB exams. I just hope i won't pull all nighters on regular basis

[Smarthead]

Wow ... I've sadly never pulled one. I always fall asleep half way through and end up working on stuff early morning

[ILM]

I did not do it tell now, and if i need i do not know if i will be able to sustain, but if i need it do much then my plan will be:

Come back from the school, sleep for about 3 hours , then pull an allnighter, but to stay up without an hour of sleeping is an difficult thing.

[Jazmine]

I dont think Ive ever truely had an all-nighter. Ive had nights where I get like 1-2 hours of sleep max but I think thats it.

I do find it suprising that I havent had like a real break down because of my uber whack sleeping schedule. Suprised but relieved, oh so relieved, that is until it comes creepingon me when I least expect it then BAMB it'll get me.

I hope im not the only one like this but does anyone else seem to do somewhat better with less sleep? Than normal I guess I should say.

There have been rare, very rare, days when I get more than my average 5ishand I just cant seem to function at all. On the other hand if I get less than my 5ish hours I seem to be a'ok or better than normal that is until I get in the car and am on the way home, I usually am knocked out by then.

Weird stuff, very wierd stuff that this loving program does to us.

[coffeetable]

For my World Lit ... yes.

[ebjork]

I don't EVER sleep very much. You all should google the Uberman sleep schedule. I tried that... but people kept interrupting my naps.

The basic idea of the thing is that rather than sleep in one big chunk at night, you take small naps throughout the day. It's quite nice, but it doesn't mesh well with our society's perception of time.

So to actually answer the original question, yes, I have pulled many an all-nighter in my time, and I do believe I'll do one tonight.

[giveyouroses]

Has any IB student pulled an all nighter, or close to one?

The latest I've slept was 6:00 am, to complete an IA.

My last history IA was written in the few hours the night before. Luckily we had a delay due to snow but that still only gave an hour of sleep you'll learn how to balance your time, don't worry.

[aydatabrizi]

haha i pulled an all nighter to finish one of my math portfolios. ugh i hated those things.