What do you use to keep awake when you need to stay up really late?

On a good day I think I get 6 hours of sleep...normally its more like 5...sometimes as low as 3(2 on occasion). I can hardly stay awake at night and then when I get to school the next morning! Lately, it's been a lot of 3-4 hour sleep nights. Yet, despite all this work, somehow my grades are still pretty bad! I mean according to guidence my GPA is, on an 100 point scale, 87.2 unweighted 89.5 weighted. Or at least that was the beginning of the year and my grades have gone down some this year...closer to mid-80s. I mean, yes I'm taking 4 Aps and 2 Honors courses(plus gym and lunch which I need so I can put a science lab in each).

Anyway, I drink a super-caffienated coffee creation to keep me awake at night/early morning: French Vanilla coffee, brewed and run through coffee grounds a coouple times, a little milk and sugar, plus an ounce or so of sky-rocket vanilla syrup(availible at www.thinkgeek.com). Total: over 200 mgs of caffeine..if it's only run through the groudns once it usually totals around 200-230 mgs of Caffeine. yummy.

My friend suggested making a sort of coffee syrup...just keep running the coffee through coffee grounds over and over again untill its a think super-caffeinated syrup.

So what about all of you? When you need to pull an all-nighter or stay up really late, what do you use?

 

moutain dew with coffee

 

I split a can of Whoopass with 2 or 3 other friends, and it kept all of us up all night

 

I think a B/B+ average hardly qualifies as "horrible."

 

Coffee
Water
Keep the lights on
Pinch yourself
Listen to music
Keep rubbing your eyes

Thats a lot of Caffeine you take in my friend

 

When I need to stay up late, I take Simply Sleep.



(in other words, I don't stay up late)

 

Never really happens to me. But I suppose I'd drink Coke or coffee.

Amazing.

 

Put on the headphones and some music.

(usually Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth or The Posies -> that music wakes me up)

 

I always find these kinds of threads amusing, because all the things that people use would invariably put me to sleep. Mountain Dew? Coffee? Sugar? Caffeine pills? Major downers.

 

Coffee
Lights
An Alarm Clock that goes off every ten minutes to ensure I stay awake
My dog to growl at me
Really really tight underwear and spandex to ensure I am too uncomfortable to fall alseep
I stand up
And I usually eat a case of sugar






*falls asleep*



ST

 

When I need to get stuff done, I don't stay up. I go to bed, and set my alarm clock for really early, so that I'll be awake and fresh when I'm doing the work.

 

I think a B/B+ average hardly qualifies as "horrible."

Well guidence basically told me it was...they were like "Well with your SAT scores you could look at the 'highly selective' schools but with your GPA...no." It must come from living about 10 minutes away from the ETS building...darned high expectations.

Thats a lot of Caffeine you take in my friend

Yeah well...a normal cup of coffee doesn't do anything for me. I didn't have any coffee yesterday and I had such and awful headache.


I'd listen to music but I usually get distracted and start singing along to it

I used to set my alarm clock and get up early but lately whenever I've tried that...I would just fall back asleep again.

And with APs coming in two weeks!!! Ahhhh must get ready, why am I on the JC anyway?

 

Up Come on I know there are more of you who stay up late frequently!

 

Willpower and Mountain Dew for me.

 

i use cigarettes, caffeine,....and cheese.

 

I use this drug.. they call it the Jedi Council... ever heard of it? It's highly addictive..

 

I use what Riding uses.

 

same as Riding...

I need help...

 

Yes.. and the best thing about this drug is it's freee......

 

Yes, but the damage is permanent just like any other drug.

 

Order a large pan meat-lover's pizza

that should keep you awake for at least a good 4 hours, minimum

Caffeine has no effects on me whatsoever (I don't drink a lot). But a cold cold fresh coke does jolt me pretty well (mainly because of the carbonation)

As for 15 min of relaxation in between crunch times (I'm the best (or worst?) crammer ever), play a really really scary/suspensful computer game or preset a video just before a scene which always make you jumpy or edgy...


As for 4 hours sleep, man, I sympathise completely. I used to be like that way back during high school. Some days I don't get by without sleep at all. Stupid homework. All homework. I never studied (funny how I still got high marks) but had a lot of extra-curricular activies and whatnot so I crammed homework big time. I'm usually still perky after 48 hours of no sleep. I averaged 4-5 hours of sleep per day for around 5 years.

P.S.
It's unhealthy And you DO lose a chunk of your life is you don't get the rest your body deserves

If you need to do well, fit in more pamper time for yourself. Your grades will get better. Honest.

 

Stimutax.

 

good old willpower for me.

 

Ginko Baloba.

 

Heres something guidance counsellors will never tell you.

Colleges look at more than your standardized test scores and your GPA. They take into account alot of things, wether you worked during high school, extracurricular activities, references, community service, your application essay ect ect/

B+/B GPA isn't all that bad, especially if you have the SAT scores to make up for it.