Unfortunately for me I wind up pulling all-nighters all the time (or at least they may as well be all-nighters when I only get 2-3 hours of sleep). It's not my choice, I just have a circadian rhythm that only makes me tired during daylight. I've been that way since I was a baby, and if left to my own devices I'll usually wind up going to sleep at 8-10 am and waking up at 6-8 pm (so it's a completely reversed cycle).
Normally I can survive like that in college since I try to pick classes that start at at least 11 am. However, this semester I got stuck with a schedule that has me usually waking up at 8:00 am and the latest I can wake up is 9:00 am and that's only on two days. Considering that I usually get to sleep at around 5-6 am these days...yeah, I have been hating life this semester. Monday isn't so bad since I'm still rested from the weekend, but by Friday I'm damn near close to having a psychotic meltdown. And getting up in the mornings sucks since not only do I feel like someone just hit me with a full dose of anesthetic but also because for the first 15 minutes or so my brain is still shut down so I wind up with extremely bizarre thought patterns, poor motor coordination, and the feeling that I'm still dreaming (actually I think that one carries on for like half the day).
Anyway, my advice as an insomniac and neuroscience major: Get some sleep damnit. It helps keep your cognitive capacities at a decent level of performance and research has shown that sleep is when your brain solidifies any knowledge it has learned since the last time it slept. Hence why all night cram sessions are a bad idea: You don't remember much of what you crammed.
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