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I stayed up the whole fucking night cramming for an exam I mean straight up pulled an all nighter, drank a redbull and just studied straight up for this retarded pre-calc class. I got out, my hands were shaking so much from the unsleep and smoked a blunt. Now the next night (last night) I couldnt sleep at all because then I ended up freakin out my body outta the sleepin mode aint even real I tell you people.

Share your experiences.

none off the top of my head...crazy shit tho...

Only one night? Finals week last quarter i got maybe 2 nights of sleep.

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Originally posted by kiev_42 I stayed up the whole fucking night cramming for an exam I mean straight up pulled an all nighter, drank a redbull and just studied straight up for this retarded pre-calc class. I got out, my hands were shaking so much from the unsleep and smoked a blunt. Now the next night (last night) I couldnt sleep at all because then I ended up freakin out my body outta the sleepin mode aint even real I tell you people. Share your experiences.

If your study regime was good enough throughout the semester, you shouldn't need to cram. I can't be fucked looking them up now, but quite a few studies on 'cramming' have often shown that the can be a negative effect on memory retention, especially under stress.

Never pulled an all-nighter for study. I'd rather get a nights sleep and study less.


One girl I know used to do that though - stay up the night before each exam studying, drinking redbull and being sick. It seemed to work for her, except when we had one exam on a Monday and the next on a Tuesday.

I'm not really the study type. I do as little studying as possible for the most part.

I did 12 weeks worth of 3rd year financial accounting in 6 days once.

Got a distinction.

Tried it the next year, got a p1
(p1 = 55% or so)

Cramming is seriously gay. It makes me so stressed I want to kill myself. The bad thing is, I do it, every semester. At the start of every term I say, "ok this shit has GOT to stop". Then I just don't do anything for 8 weeks...

i know lots of stuff. knowing stuff = less studying.

Oh...

By midnight tonight, I would have done 6 weeks of Web Development (in one day)

up until about 4am for final geology exam. Got a couple of hours sleep in the front of the car rather than drive an hour each way to go home. Opened the exam paper and realised how simple it all was, that my efforts in studying were completely unnecessary.
still, better to have made the effort and not needed to than to have not made the effort and flunked the subject.

had much longer hours working some projects than anything done at uni though

All nighters if approached correctly can at times yeild good results. It requires a right mental approach though, and it's important to stay alert. Often if the exam is a biggy then the worry about falling asleep during the actual test isnt really an issue since adrenaline will kick in once you've sat down.

Eat slow release energy foods such as bananas and porridge to keep yopur mind burning and drink fluids to keep you hydrated and alert. Caffine can help, but it can also cause massive energy dips once it wears off.

oh man I know exactly how you feel, yesterday me and friend had to study for a math test, we both popped a pill of adderall (20 mg) and we were fucking glued to the fucking books from 8pm till like 4am. Which leads me to this question:

I know adderall is stimulant drug for people with "add", but my friend said that it also helps a normal person concentrate better like when there studying and stuff, and thats the problem that i basically have i love to procastinate and when i do start studying i love to do multiple things at one (aim, music, downloading music, chatting) so basically my question is, by taking adderall once or twice a every couple of months to study for big tests, will that have some kind of negative effect on me, since i dont have "ADD"?

the only people i know who take adderall are non-add people and they take it during finals weeks

as for me, junior year of high school i was taking this course america west, about the history of the frontier etc. anyways, we had to read some book and write an 8 page report on it. there we no sparknotes, no cliff notes, no NOTHIGN on this book. and at 10pm the night before it was due i was talking to another classmate and neither of us had started the book. without working together we both finished it and got B+'s

power skimming + bullshitting ftw!

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Originally posted by jfk-pilot oh man I know exactly how you feel, yesterday me and friend had to study for a math test, we both popped a pill of adderall (20 mg) and we were fucking glued to the fucking books from 8pm till like 4am. Which leads me to this question: I know adderall is stimulant drug for people with "add", but my friend said that it also helps a normal person concentrate better like when there studying and stuff, and thats the problem that i basically have i love to procastinate and when i do start studying i love to do multiple things at one (aim, music, downloading music, chatting) so basically my question is, by taking adderall once or twice a every couple of months to study for big tests, will that have some kind of negative effect on me, since i dont have "ADD"?

The government has been giving pilots who don't have ADHD amphetamines for decades to keep them awake and alert on long missions. I think you will be ok.

Look at me, I've taken thousands of milligrams of amphetamines in my life...wait maybe thats a bad example

Cramming is retarded. It's much easier to study a little bit every day and then not study the night or two before the test.

Now for my cramming story. I had an analytical chemistry test maybe about a year or so ago but Digweed was going to be playing about an hours drive away from where I live the night before. So I went to the Digweed show, got home about 5-6am studied for a few hours and aced the exam. Now that is a real all nighter.

i never needed mroe than 2 - 3 hours for studying. I'd much rather be out drinking at night than studying. So I just wake up and study throughout the day, drink at night...win / win.

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Originally posted by Boomer187 i never needed mroe than 2 - 3 hours for studying. I'd much rather be out drinking at night than studying. So I just wake up and study throughout the day, drink at night...win / win.

That's the way to do it.

oh college days. how fun were they!

cramming was always usually 1-3 hrs right before a test....never did any of that late night shit.

that was reserved for finals and my thesis

I rarely have actual exams (most of my work is writing papers), and when I do, I study maybe an hour or two for them.

For papers on the other hand, I've pulled many, many all nighters.

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Originally posted by RJT I rarely have actual exams (most of my work is writing papers), and when I do, I study maybe an hour or two for them. For papers on the other hand, I've pulled many, many all nighters.

papers were always "easier" to pull an all nighter....once you were on a roll, it was easy to keep going. unlike studying where you can just fall asleep because you don't give a rats ass about the material.

Aderol always did the trick for me...usually studied the night before, but did well most of the time hehe

I did nothing all year, got thrown off the course for absenteeism, talked my way back onto it with some sob story then crammed a years worth of work into a couple of days using my mates course notes & passed the exam.

A friend of mine worked hard for a year but had a poor exam & had to re-sit it. He even complained to the Year Head about having to re-sit when I passed using his own course notes after doing jack shit for a year. Year Head agreed with his sentiments but said he could do nothing about my exam scores

Calculus III exam tomorrow, I'm trying to figure out a way to travel faster so that time slows down, that way i'll have extra time to know everything before taking the exam.

Anyone have ideas on how to travel faster so that time slows down there for more time is allowed for studying?

I do not pull all nighters for exams. But yes, I have spent many a nights working on research.

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Originally posted by tubularbills papers were always "easier" to pull an all nighter....once you were on a roll, it was easy to keep going. unlike studying where you can just fall asleep because you don't give a rats ass about the material.

I found it much more difficult solely because tests have always been easy for me - I don't know why, but I could study maybe an hour or two for any test I've ever taken and get a B or better.

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