All-nighters and me don’t exactly get along.
Do pardon the sudden silence - this week has been a hectic one, ironically despite it being the midterm break week.
Seriously, I’m starting to view ‘midterm break week’ as a well disguised euphemism for ’stay at home, mug your head off and slog like hell at your desk to complete projects that are nicely scheduled to be due either during the break, or immediately after‘.
If having lost sleep the entire week (average of 5-6 hours a day when I can only function and remain sane at a minimum of 8) was bad enough, I pulled off an all-nighter last night.
To complete a project that was due today at noon.
Now, now, now, before you start lambasting my group members and myself for doing things at the last minute - the fact is, we’ve actually had a head start, and actually completed the darn thing on Wednesday - or so we thought.
Apparently, dearest professor hadn’t made his requirements clear, resulting in much confusion over the groups who were working on the project. After final clarification with the professor by one particular group, the news soon spread to our group that we’ve done the later half of our project wrongly.
Not to mention the fact that Mr Professor only sent a clarification email two days ahead of the deadline - when the assignment was given … two weeks ago?
From 9pm last night to 9am this morning - I’ve had my bottom plonked on this very same chair I’m sitting on, and doing nothing but Java coding.
No. No sleep for the past 36 hours.
Coded and coded and coded. Became cross-eyed and dizzy at certain points, but still persisted because the damn deadline was within less than twelve hours and there was still a shitload of bugs to be solve and much logic to derive.
Ended up skipping this morning’s class to complete the code and when I finally wrapped things up - was about to drift off peacefully into slumber when I suddenly received notification that there was a deadline for another report today which I was completely unaware about. (See what happens when multitasking too much?)
Whoosh - within two hours, I was in school. (Although we ended up having a time extension since a couple of other groups missed the deadline as well.)
And yes, never got the chance to sleep.
Attended another meeting (which my brain wasn’t focused on) and basically stumbled my way through the entire day - wasn’t walking in a straight line at all. Instead, half-slouched like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and behaving as if I’ve had too much to drink the night before. (Even though I don’t drink.)
Before this whole episode, friends were already lamenting about how I’ve really dark eye circles - like a panda.
Right now, it really looks as though I’ve been socked in both eyes.
I’m off to sleep - and something tells me that I’ll sleep like a baby tonight and oversleep tomorrow. But who cares - I deserve my sleep.
All of the above happened on a leap day - 29th February 2008. Thank goodness leap years only arrive once every four years.
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That is a crazy day alright! I hate it when profs do last minute clarification. Do they not realize that students have other assignments due?!?
Hope you had enough rest since then for your panda eyes to recede. :)
Oh wow… that’s break? So what’s non-break like?
See? This is exactly why I’m glad not to be in school anymore. No more all nighters. Sure, we might need to stay overtime to fix bugs, but at least we’re payed.
All-nighters and me don’t get along well either. When I have an all-nighter, my face becomes a metropolis for break-outs. Not to mention, I am particularly friendly. Then again, who is, after staying up for that long?
I empathise with you when a professor doesn’t make her/his comments clear. I also hate having to ask and they look at your increduously as though you are telling them they have veggies in between their teeth. =/
I hope that you have at least rested by now.
Glad you made it :-) I once worked on a project I had to finish and when watching the clock it was already 3 am…Quite shocking what energies are revealed in such situations…Hope you recovered from all that :-)
All nighters is one thing I definitely don’t miss about being in college. Although I’ll enjoy my freedom from that for only a short while, as I’ll be heading back to college in less than a year.
Wow that must have sucked a lot. I’ve never pulled an all-nighter, and I’m glad I never have. The latest I’ve ever stayed up for academic purposes was till around 3:30 am, re-writing a rhetoric paper I wasn’t satisfied with.
Happy leap day to you too! Also, happy sleeping.