Who's pulled an all-nighter?

[mizuhara_fan]

Well guys, wish me luck: I am ready to pull my first all-nighter in two years.

It's ten 'o clock right now for me on this post and I have my Starbucks Frappachinos (Vanilla) ready. All the lights are on, the TV is on, and the J-Pop is flowing... I have to do overtime on a project and I must have the entire night at hand. I shall use the posts here as reference while I attempt such a feat.

I just hope that I won't crash at the 4 AM point... ^_^

[the_lizardqueen]

Well guys, wish me luck: I am ready to pull my first all-nighter in two years.

Good luck ^_^

I'm hoping it goes well, and that you'll be able to find a hidden reserve of energy that you didn't know you have (possibly coffee induced). Oo, and I hope that the project will go well too.

I was pulling all-nighters last weekend over a 2nd year portfolio, so I can definitely relate

[indyrocker]

well I did crash eventualy but it was at like 2:30 am the night after while I was attempting yet antoher alnighter

[Mave]

I just did.....today.

It's almost 7 a.m. and surprisingly I feel OK.

I don't dare to sleep right now lest I might oversleep and miss submitting the paper I spent doing the whole night/early morning working on. I've got to at least make my sacrifice worthed it.

[Jasdero]

u.u me too, me too. It's 3:48 A.M. and I'm not even considering going to sleep anytime soon. Chances are, when 7 or 8 A.M. comes around, I'll be staring at my bed. XD;

\ ^O^ / Good luck, Mave! <3

[Kaori]

Well, I just stayed up all night packing, and last night I pulled an all-nighter writing essays for a take-home exam. Fortunately, I was able to get some sleep during the day yesterday.

[TurkishMonky]

I am staying up all night after biking 40 miles today, 30 yesterday, and little sleeping before.... yipeee!!!!!!! i love these things!

[c-girl]

I have. >^^<

[shooraijin]

Being on call counts, I think.

[Roy Mustang]

I did stay up one time for 26 hours. Then I felt like dump truck hit me and slept for about a day.

I will never do that again. You know that you need sleep, when you can't remember what day it is.


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[Aeolus21]

Heh, I just pulled one the other day. One can handle so much Red Bull in the morning before they reliaze their body is a mess (luckilly I didn't crash until the 7 PM point the next day). While you don't usually make up the sleep you lose, I think I slept a good twelve hours after staying up the previous night. Needless to say I felt great the next morning!

[shooraijin]

My record without sleep is 33 hours. That didn't work so well.

[Jasdero]

My record without sleep is 33 hours. That didn't work so well.

o__o How did you.. survive?!

[Chocobo777]

I've pulled an all-nighter with my church youth group. I was going to stay awake through the next day but my parents practically tied me to my bed! OOOOooohhh for shame. i-i <-- crying thing

[Radical Dreamer]

Oh, man...I've tried to. I need to get my sleeping scedule back on track (my hours range from 3-4pm to 6, 7, or even 8am (that only happened once...lol)). Anyways, I need to try doing that one day...Maybe...<.< >.>

[Sesshoumaru]

I do it ALL THE TIME, with my cousins. With a limitless supply of soda and games we'll stay up all night then won't go to bed till 11:00 the next day.

[dragonshimmer]

My record without sleep is 33 hours. That didn't work so well.

That's awful. I hope you don't have to do that too often.

I'm a recent victim of "Up All Night". I didn't sleep last night, but it was pretty much a choice. I've found my best time with God comes when I've stayed up all night and I go to watch the sunrise somewhere.

[shooraijin]

That's awful. I hope you don't have to do that too often.

I'm a recent victim of "Up All Night". I didn't sleep last night, but it was pretty much a choice. I've found my best time with God comes when I've stayed up all night and I go to watch the sunrise somewhere.

Actually, every fourth night during internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics -- 24 hours on duty and 6 hours of ward work making a total of 30 hours. It's 24 hours typically for gyn when we rotate through that.

That's the pain of residency. It used to be that there was no limit to how many times per week you could be on call, and how long you were on duty; a lot of general surgery residencies were call every other night -- stay up all night, go home in the afternoon the next day, crash, get up, and do it again.

Resident work hour laws now limit us to 30 hour shifts, and 80 hours a week average with one day off a week averaged over two weeks. This is a lot more humane, but it still stinks. Fortunately, as a 3rd year, I've done my time -- any call I do is paid at $75/hour. That's ... almost worth it.

[Mave]

Good griefy, Shooby! Isn't that somewhat detrimental towards your efficiency and attentiveness in your job performance and to your patients?

[shooraijin]

Good griefy, Shooby! Isn't that somewhat detrimental towards your efficiency and attentiveness in your job performance and to your patients?

Yup. I've never made a serious error myself (thank goodness, although I have made quite a few minor ones after a rough night), but I know others who have. There but for the grace of God go I ...

This is the rationale for the resident work hours law. 30 hours is still quite beastly, but believe me, it's a lot better than it was. When I was in medical school, we were still on the old system, and I remember coming in at 5am and not leaving until 5pm the next day. The residents let us menial students sleep some on call, but I know -they- didn't.

Oh, and we walked to school on shards of broken glass in bare feet that were on fire in a snowstorm, etc.