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I don't have any animation work online yet (we'll be making portfolio websites sometime next semester). All I have up currently is a sketchblog, and the artwork on there is mediocre at best, with all the time I have to put into assignments, it leaves me little time to actually make nice pieces of art for the web.
If you want to check it out, it's at http://hope-knight.tripod.com
Strategy: coffee and walks [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
Bump because I just pulled my first all-nighter ever. My head is starting to hurt and I'm probably not thinking straight, but I gotta keep going 'cause this bitch of a research paper is due in a few hours. I am truly a college student today.
Funny thing is, I only stayed up writing this paper because I put off doing it all weekend. I'm gonna hate myself later when I run outta steam...
Thanks to all the good advice posted in this thread too, as I used some of it to keep myself from dying. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
hymm get your hours messed up like mine are XD lol im sick atm so i keep coughing n cant sleep -.- i should rest but its to boring -.- lol, if your not sick just drink massive amounts of coffee or ice tea, or coke or pepsi n so on or the other way is just stay up t-.-t lol ( come to think about it i kinda feel like brisk icetea myself but got none nor any ice tea at all -.- ) Y ( or ice tea slurpees OMG they never have that flavour in but its like the godlyisteded~!
NOTE OMG~ : once u pull an all nighter your hour are evil, so just stay up one whole night n day then go to bed like at 7 pm ( i know its early but your gonna sleep more then 8-10 hours lol ) right now its 6:37 am -.- probbally gonna sleep for couple hours sometime in the afternoon lol, then il do that above to get my hours good once im not sick ne more n stuff XD.
SUPER EDIT OMG!~ : its not hard for me to stay up all night but it is for some people -.- so just set your alarm to go off every 10 minuts.. then if u fall alseep you can wake up angred and smash everything ( that should keep u up for an hour of smashing ~ XD ) Y ( usally i feel super pathedic and angry when awoken early in my sleep lol ) . ( also i look like a angry moron when i get wake up lol )
another edit -.- :
hmm about that disney mickey comic i mean omg its like ends when mickeys about to kick a$$ lol, i wanted to see all the disney characters in a battle royal -.-t lol you gotta finish that one XDQuote:
Originally posted by: hopeknight
I don't have any animation work online yet (we'll be making portfolio websites sometime next semester). All I have up currently is a sketchblog, and the artwork on there is mediocre at best, with all the time I have to put into assignments, it leaves me little time to actually make nice pieces of art for the web.
If you want to check it out, it's at http://hope-knight.tripod.com
All nighters are avoidable if you studied properly during the quarter/ semester. And please don't give me any excuses or BS to counter, if that makes your ego feel better than so be it. I am not trying to sound like a prick, sorry if that is the case. But take it as a helpful tip next time: Study throughout the quarter/semester!
It might be because I'm suffering from a lack of sleep, but KoKo37's post just seems like an incoherent mess of jumbled thoughts, with random "lols" "XD's" and "-_-" thrown in.
I completely agree. This method works really well.Quote:
Originally posted by: Strike Freedom
All nighters are avoidable if you studied properly during the quarter/ semester. And please don't give me any excuses or BS to counter, if that makes your ego feel better than so be it. I am not trying to sound like a prick, sorry if that is the case. But take it as a helpful tip next time: Study throughout the quarter/semester!
Regardless of me knowing this, I ended up doing a couple of all-nighters, due to laziness. I pretty much see it as all nighter people = lazy.
lol actually the first one helps n the second one is a tip for if u get your hours messed, the rest is just spam and!!! if i just post the tips n stuff the post will be boring lol so i try to fill up the boringness with bunches of useless semi-funny spam lol, n the lols XDs and -.- if the post never had those... well i cant really think of anything to say lol but it'd suck XD <--- ( honestly could you live without this? -.- ) Y ( <--- or the -.- n so on -.- )Quote:
Originally posted by: XanBcoo
It might be because I'm suffering from a lack of sleep, but KoKo37's post just seems like an incoherent mess of jumbled thoughts, with random "lols" "XD's" and "-_-" thrown in.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure theres not a single one of us that doesn't know this, thus they don't need the advice you just gave. I'm sure you know that. Because you know this, and you gave no useful advice to surviving an all nighter once its in process, the whole purpose of your post is to point your finger and give the people in here the holier than thou attitude. Thats prickish. I know you apologized for it in advance, but its probably because you just don't feel like hearing a response to it. I'm not giving you that satisfaction.Quote:
Originally posted by: Strike Freedom
All nighters are avoidable if you studied properly during the quarter/ semester. And please don't give me any excuses or BS to counter, if that makes your ego feel better than so be it. I am not trying to sound like a prick, sorry if that is the case. But take it as a helpful tip next time: Study throughout the quarter/semester!
I don't think you can reduce it all to a generalization like that, because there's a fair bit of variation between different schools and programs. If I was majoring in linguistics, I have no doubt that I could stay on top of all my work, get a decent amount of sleep, get good marks, and still have time left over. And yet these things together are unobtainable for me in engineering. Why is that? Because a normal coureload in the faculty of humanities is 5 courses, whereas a normal courseload in engineering is 7 courses. Engineering courses are also more likely to have labs, each of which is an extra 3 hours every week at my university, as well as lab reports that can range from 2 to 20 pages depending on the requirements of the course.
A couple years ago, I had a plan that I was going to avoid all of the common pitfalls. I decided to get a minimum of 8 hours of sleep each night, to finish all my assignments and reports well in advance, and to regularly review my course material. I was actually pretty good at it. I met these goals most of the time. But in exchange, I had to give up all of my free time. I was either in class or doing homework all the time. I'd get up early on the weekends to go to the library and stay there till closing. The only 'social' time I had was the time I spent talking with my housemates while I was making or eating meals. No tv, no video games, no anime, no extra-curriculars, nothing. It was miserable. Academically, I was doing great, but I can't say that I had any fun at all. I don't recommend it.
All nighters? wow. That sux for u guys. Drink Coke. That always keeps me up. Also, in the words of Luffy " MEAT!". Meat will solve all your problems.
Whether you believe it is "prickish" doesn't change my attitude regarding my statement. Now, I'm not going to sink down to your level and say your post is useless (i'll leave that to interpretation). And just because you say it is useless does not mean I see it the same way. There are enough people in the world that think things will not change and that saying things have no warrant, but I believe in speaking your mind and being open-minded. Granted, you may be right about my post, but I disagree with you whole-heartedly on your view, but I respect it nonetheless. Lastly, I knew there was going to be a response and I am very glad there was one. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]Quote:
Originally posted by: Uchiha Barles
Yeah, I'm pretty sure theres not a single one of us that doesn't know this, thus they don't need the advice you just gave. I'm sure you know that. Because you know this, and you gave no useful advice to surviving an all nighter once its in process, the whole purpose of your post is to point your finger and give the people in here the holier than thou attitude. Thats prickish. I know you apologized for it in advance, but its probably because you just don't feel like hearing a response to it. I'm not giving you that satisfaction.Quote:
Originally posted by: Strike Freedom
All nighters are avoidable if you studied properly during the quarter/ semester. And please don't give me any excuses or BS to counter, if that makes your ego feel better than so be it. I am not trying to sound like a prick, sorry if that is the case. But take it as a helpful tip next time: Study throughout the quarter/semester!
Now, on to Kit Kat, you do make a great point. I know a friend who majored in Chemical Engineering and the poor lad had no life. But these are sacrafices we choose to make depending on our respective goals, ambition and views.
Very well. I had no intention of trying to change your view on the matter. Was just doing exactly what you did. "speaking my mind".
Ooohh a walk! That's what I need right now! (if you can't tell, I'm pulling an all-nighter right now). It's 5:11 Eastern Standard Time and its a surprisingly beautiful night out for upstate NY.Quote:
Originally posted by: 2:25
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Give me a fresh mind set to finish off my Social Policy Project (Is GW Bush's proposed Social Security change a good or bad thing for equity?... this is a question that entire think-tanks might fail to answer correctly, let alone a single college-student...)
And yes, I am a procrastinator and thats part of how I got into this little jam. But honestly, the Prof is a fucking absent-minded fool, failing to assign the project on time, promising to provide additional research sources and never delivering on it, cancelling classes and office hours on the final two days before the project was due...mother fucker is going to get it... when he's done giving me my grade, that is...
lol, all I had to do was 8 pages over Japanese art. I'm no good at Politics whatsoever.Quote:
Originally posted by: masamuneehs
(Is GW Bush's proposed Social Security change a good or bad thing for equity?... this is a question that entire think-tanks might fail to answer correctly, let alone a single college-student...)
And yeah, like I said, the only reason I had to stay up was because I put it off. I also took a walk, which really did help. So did the food, but I felt kinda dizzy the rest of the day regardless.
coffee...thats my tip lots and lots of starbucks triple espresso or mocha frappaccino.
Well if i know im going to be pulling an allnighter i start drinking energy drinks the day of b/c i read some where they do more good if you drink them before your actually tired. Anyways yeah eating and music all help me stay up so i use those and breaks for something besides the work as you mentioned are useful as well b/c its easier to focus after the break instead of hours of constant, mindnumbing work.
as long as i have a pack of cigarettes, a lot of food and drinks by my side with the occassional game break or whatever, then i'm pretty good for the next 8-10 hours or so.
Quote:
Originally posted by: Strike Freedom
All nighters are avoidable if you studied properly during the quarter/ semester. And please don't give me any excuses or BS to counter, if that makes your ego feel better than so be it. I am not trying to sound like a prick, sorry if that is the case. But take it as a helpful tip next time: Study throughout the quarter/semester!
Complete... utter... total ... Bullshit. It has nothing with time management, or studying improperly. You cant make a generalization like that. For example...
When an EECS project takes about 1200 hours over the course of a semester, there are nights where you will not sleep to meet deadlines. Regardless of working almost every day with your group, you will miss sleep. When the quarterly progress checks come u won't sleep thrusday night. And when the final checkoffs come you likely won't sleep for days. Not just me, not just my group, the entire class.
Now ill admit that usually when I pull an all nighter its because I've been stupid, but maybe 1 or twice a semester there just wasn't time to juggle multiple eecs project classes, plain and simple.
I always felt tremendously guilty whenever I wasted time doing other stuff and neglecting an approaching project deadline. I have the mentality where if I don't do something productive, i feel like i wasted the whole day. Even being out of school now and sitting and playing video games for several hours still makes me feel like I should be doing something else.
It helps to have the right frame of mind.....I'm not sure how a person would go about adjusting that, but I'm pretty sure I used to be a big procrastinator years back as well.....so maybe it can be habit-forming?