Your Sleep Habits:
All-Nighters

Yeah, sometimes pulling an all-nighter is necessary…  I know that a lot of students have to work a job to pay the bills and this often makes finding study time difficult… But, trust me on this one…  Don’t ever do all-nighters for studying the night before a test!

I’ve had a ton of students oversleep my classes because they fell asleep at 5am after studying all night and were too comatose to hear their alarms.  I’ve also had students go completely blank on tests because they pulled an all-nighter studying and were just too darn tired to think.

Final exams are a very common time to pull all-nighters and, then, oversleep the big test.  The killer part on this one is that the semester is over after that test and there's no time to go back and beg the teacher for mercy. 

The very last day of my fall 2006-2007 semester, after a long day of giving final exams, I went out to my car to go home...  Only to find a very frazzled and frantic student waiting by my car for me.  The poor kid had overslept his final exam and couldn't find me anywhere on campus.  He was smart enough to find my car out in the parking lot -- it was the one with the Coolmath.com bumper sticker.  He looked so pathetic that I took him back into my office and let him take his final.  Unfortunately, because of all the stress of the day, he went completely blank and failed it.  Don't let this happen to you! 

Save the all-nighters for term-papers that you procrastinated on…  Better yet, don’t procrastinate at all, then there will never been a need for all-nighters!