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Are you a "pull an all nighter" kind of person or are you way ahead?
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shoot, i thought this was a sex thread. carry on
Goddamn. I walked directly into that.
I used to be an "all-nighter" kind of guy, now I find that advance planning is way easier.
I cannot read this thread in the same light after message 2. Carry on.
I wouldn't be afraid. We're amongst friends.
I've heard about these so-called "all-nighters," and I hear they can be very exhausting.What was the assignment, RA?
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I was proud he stuck it out
Ok, but what was the alternative? Not turning it in? Turning it in late? I think finishing it on time was the only option. It's a really bad habit to get into, turning things in late.
I was the kid that did the book report the night before after reading just the jacket liner of the book and I would get an A. I had a higher than average vocabulary so it was easy to impress my teachers with the big words. I still do my best work under that last minute pressure.
Oh, let me clarify, people. My son is in sixth grade and school has always been pretty easy for him. This is the first year he's had to try, organize, plan, etc. So I think he's learning how he best learns, etc., a pretty normal process for people, I think. He's usually done with homework in about 5 minutes, LG, so for him to stay up working on homework until 9:30, when he's usually done right after football practice, is new to him. I hope it's a learning process. I think he'll be fine. The assignment, Britt, was some "write a summary" for each chapter of a book chart. God, it was stupid. He reads all the time. "Why can't I just read it?", he asked...
I have always been a last minute all-nighter person. I try to be otherwise, but I often come down to that. For example, I still don't have my costume for tomorrow night nailed down.
Can I cop to being both?I have two urgent projects right now: I'm starting to tutor a girl in Algebra II - I can do math, but I don't have a good memory for math. I'm not facile with it, so I have to relearn it every time I need to know it. The other is that I've got this one-shot DMing thing going in a system with which I am not familiar. I have until the 19th of November to learn the system and come up with a story. Yes, I AM one of those RPGers, although I defy all stereotypes, I want you to know.
I stayed up all night last night, not working on either of those things, but on cataloging my CDs. I got started doing it, and I couldn't stop, even though that is something that could totally be done anytime.
Maybe I'm just nuts.
Rebecca, I totally get why you couldn't stop last night. I'm like that as well. It's one of those...well, I got this far, I might as well finish it.
I used to be a pull an all-nighter kind of person, and it really worked okay for me. I'd do the reading ahead of time, it was the big papers that used to get done right at the end. No way was I going to get up early and finish something, either. I'd rather have all those hours in the night at my disposal. But now, since it's a job, not homework, it's different. I like to get things out of the way so I don't have to worry about them anymore, and I'd rather not wait until the last minute.
On a related note, I don't understand people who pack for a vacation the week before. How do you even DO that? Don't you need that stuff until right up to when you're leaving?
I have a sister in law that if she is having Easter or Thanksgiving at her house will start setting things on the counter that she will be using up to a month ahead of time, including non perishable groceries that she made need for a recipe.
i do my best work between 11pm and 3am.
janine wrote: "i do my best work between 11pm and 3am."Do I even want to ask what kind of work?
I usually start out planning and getting this done early, then I end up putting things off and waiting till the last minute. I once took an online world history class to get an elective knocked out, and in the last weekend before it ended I: read 4 books and wrote 4 book reviews, did 4 additional weeks worth of assignments, AND I took the mid-term and final.It was either my finest hour or most shameful, depending on how you look at it.
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Ok, that is nuts. Or, she has 50 yards of counter space.
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I start making a list of what I need to take 3-5 days before. I might start filling my suitcase 3 days before. Maybe a few things you need until you leave, like pajamas and makeup, but you would pack those things last.
There are people, especially flight attendants, who travel so much they always have a suitcase packed. Flight attendants also roll their clothes rather than folding them flat (learned this at the New York Times).
I wish I had actually gotten done. That's another silly thing - I keep looking at mounds of work and thinking I can knock it out quickly. But alas, I'm not even half done and the table is covered by stacks of CDs so I'm stuck. I sort of have this feeling that if I finished this then I could concentrate on the other two important things!
Lobstergirl wrote: "Ok, that is nuts. Or, she has 50 yards of counter space. "It is nuts.
I have a 4 yr college degree, and I never stayed up all night doing homework or studying. I never missed turning something in, or went to a test unprepared.
Its strange that now I have become a procrastinator.
I heard about a study that stated that a person with 8 hours of sleep does better on tests than does a person who crams all night. I have never stayed up all night for a test or a project.
Yeah, I learned in grad school that it's good to study hard right before going to bed,and in sleep, what's in your working memory is all processed to the part of your brain where it sticks. So studying before sleep is the most effective way to learn.
I suspect myself of being a self-saboteur. I study for a subject the night before I'm supposed to sit for it in end-of-year exams. And even that's not accurate. I start at around 9.30pm, until 11.30pm, sleep, wake up at 5am and study some more...And every day, I take a little less time for each subject. I pushed it as close as 9pm to 10.30pm once, and only woke up at 6 am to resume studying. (I go to school at 7.20am). One time, I studied chemistry, and needlessly wasted 2 hours revising and making a mindmap for something I already knew!
I'm neither of these choices.I will typically figure out what needs to be done by the deadline, then do bits of it along the way. By the night before, I'm putting on the finishing touches.
Phil wrote: "I'm neither of these choices.I will typically figure out what needs to be done by the deadline, then do bits of it along the way. By the night before, I'm putting on the finishing touches."
I know people like you, Phil! I copy off of you if I don't finish my homework in time!
Where do you fit on this continuum?