How to pull an all-nighter
By Lip Board
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 at 11:41 am in Danielle Douvikas.
I will assure you that even if you are a diligent student, you will procrastinate at least once in your high school career and be forced to stay up all night to finish your work. I am hoping you will use my advice to make this dreadful night and next day as smooth as possible.
- Sit at a desk to work. NEVER work on a bed, couch or the floor, because you will just get too tired and knock out.
- Think positively! Congratulate yourself after a little progress. Do not think negatively about how much you have accomplished.
- Take a shower. The pounding water excites your sensory impulses, and the heat relaxes you so that you are not too tense (but not so relaxed that you will fall asleep)
- Chew gum. Studies show it activates chemicals in the brain that improve short and long term memory.
- Sniff some lavender or peppermint, whether in candle, oils, or candy form. These fragrances help people stay alert and awake.
- Try not to consume too much caffeine or sugar. Caffeine and sugar both give you temporary energy; by the time you get to school the next day, you will be very likely to crash.
- Warm temperatures make you sleepy; keep your room temperature cool.
- Snack. Eat protein rich healthy food. Eat only enough to keep you up.
- Take a ten minute break every hour or so. If you need a nap, only nap for twenty minutes, and be SURE to set an alarm to wake you up for more studying.
Warnings and Precautions:
-Do not pull more than one all nighter a week. It is EXTREMELY bad for your health. I had nearly perfect attendance my freshman and sophomore year. Junior year was my all nighter year, and I got sick so often.
-If you stay up all night for a test, chances are, you would do better if you sleep rather than study.
-Do not let your parents know about your all nighter; you will just get yelled at all day for your procrastination.
- Give the teacher whose work you procrastinated on reasonable evidence that you got a full night’s sleep (sit up straight, act like you are paying attention).
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November 9th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
This is a great reference for teenagers. I’ve seen many teens worried about cramming for the big test the next day. I, myself, have been in the position of not knowing how to study and this would have been a great benefit.
It’s always good to surround yourself in the right manner when trying to study to retain important information. Thank you for posting this!
December 13th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Well this is definitely something good to read.
But I googled your address here to express something we all felt. Here ‘we’ refers to a bunch of Chinese kids in high school, myself included.
D’you know your article “not my taste” abusing the Twilight Saga was on our forced-to-read newspaper, Teens? Well if you do, please try not to hurt our feelings by expressing such strong opposing view out loud, and on our newspaper, all right? I don’t say Twilight is the best book in the universe and I don’t think so, and I do not think Twilight is the next Harry Potter because it is unique in every way. Reading what you wrote made me feel you’re insulting us, because we read Twilight and liked it, this so-called “unhealthy romance” and “only an interesting story about a hormone-driven teenager”. And I have to say you missed a lot of important factors in their love story, for example Edward does not hunt people, and here you only catch that he HAD BEEN a murderer, well he’s a VAMPIRE, naturally! And god knows how much more I want to add according your short article. I respect your opinion, but seeing that on our newspaper somehow made it sound like Twilight is a trash book(well you definitely think so) and everyone thinks so, too. Well we don’t!
Anyway that’s been posted and we read it. And I suppose everyone has the right to comment a bit, right? Hope you’ll see my remark someday.
By the way, I love Harry Potter too. But my love for it and for Hermione did not cloud my feelings for Twilight and Bella. They’re DIFFERENT, two creatures in two universes, so mind you don’t compare them because there’s no comparison, each of them is unique and fascinating in their own way. What, would you be satisfied if every heroine in every book in every part of the world is just like Hermione? Oh man.
Anyway, I guess I’m just grumbling a bit. Still, good day to you.