[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
[B]Dinner party at my house tonight, so I'm currently eating some really nice food. [/B][/QUOTE]I'll be there.
Hmm guess Im the opposite from you then. I need to have alot going on simultaneously or otherwise I get bored real quick & tend to lose a few nuts.
I always make sure I have something to do that gives me a legitimate excuse to say yeah i deserve that day off. I have to feel like Im progressing somehow or heading toward my eventual goal (Which is to get the hell outta here).
So far its not looking good and I really need to be making much more than I am now.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
[B]Other fun things to try:
Get a cold the week before a 3 hour exam so you can't study properly for it, get only 3.5 hours sleep the night before the (morning) exam due to said cold, spend the rest not getting rested due to anxiety, then sit said exam while doped up on anti-cold drugs and completely unable to concentrate. For added kick, make the exam Advanced Japanese, requiring you to think in another language at a time when you can barely think in your native tongue. [/B][/QUOTE]
Also fun:
Get the flu friday, get slightly better sunday, get worse monday, but healthy enough to stand and drive. Go to class tuesday Find out the class you went to is actually wednesday. Go back to apartment, realize you actually had class tuesday and mistook it for class on wednesday. Go to bed. Wake up wednesday, go to class, realize Wednesday is midterm day. Walk out of class and back into it hoping maybe the universe will spontaneously reset to last week. Take midterm, fall asleep in midterm for 30 minutes in a pose that makes you look awake. Wake up, find out midterm is math heavy and you have no calculator. or a pen. Improvise with marker you find inbetween monitors. Under influence of medication, forget multiplication tables, re-create such that 10x5=500. Take final, complete, get test back next wednesday with a bunch of confused scribbles from professor stating that you did math on a short answer problem. :D
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Random Chaos [/i]
[B]I can't function on less then 7 hours of sleep, regardless. I can hardly function on less then 8 hours of sleep.
Therefore if I ever had a class that gave too much work for me to get enough sleep, it simply wouldn't get done becuase of how my mind works (it goes to sleep, even if I don't).
Here is my suggestion A: Take a saturday (I assume you don't have class Saturday and Sunday). Sleep it away, even if you have work. When you wake up you will be able to function so much better that you might find you can finish all that crap your instructer gave you in 2/3rds the time (since you'd be rested), and thus still get it all finished for Monday. It's worth a try if you don't think you can keep going the way you are. Better to take a risk and get sleep with the hope you can catch up then keep going without. [/B][/QUOTE]
That's how I work, RC. If I don't get enough sleep, I am no better than a bag of meat shaped like me. I cannot function and just fail to achieve anything during that day, no matter how important it can be. However, I have also found that pulling an all-nighter is far preferrable to going to bed and having it interrupted, as I am actually capable of thinking long into prolonged work (but completely dump short term memory and other fun bits once I enter deep sleep).
the strategy you proposed is actually what got me through on many occasions, though, as allnighters can be quite hazardous to my health (much like abruptly interrupting sleep, like this whole weekend). I've found that if I do not get enough sleep, my immune system fails abruptly and I am open to all sorts of illnesses, which is actually how I got the above mentioned flu. :P In cases where my physical health is far more crucial than capability to get work done extremely quickly (i.e. most of the year), I try to get 8 to 8.5 hours of sleep in and wake up completely rested.
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[B]Dinner party at my house tonight, so I'm currently eating some really nice food. [/B][/QUOTE]I'll be there.
need to turn 6 famous works into 6 cubistic designs..
and collect rent from a number of people who are LATE. >(
Then I can go back to sleep.
I always make sure I have something to do that gives me a legitimate excuse to say yeah i deserve that day off. I have to feel like Im progressing somehow or heading toward my eventual goal (Which is to get the hell outta here).
So far its not looking good and I really need to be making much more than I am now.
[B]Other fun things to try:
Get a cold the week before a 3 hour exam so you can't study properly for it, get only 3.5 hours sleep the night before the (morning) exam due to said cold, spend the rest not getting rested due to anxiety, then sit said exam while doped up on anti-cold drugs and completely unable to concentrate. For added kick, make the exam Advanced Japanese, requiring you to think in another language at a time when you can barely think in your native tongue. [/B][/QUOTE]
Also fun:
Get the flu friday, get slightly better sunday, get worse monday, but healthy enough to stand and drive. Go to class tuesday Find out the class you went to is actually wednesday. Go back to apartment, realize you actually had class tuesday and mistook it for class on wednesday. Go to bed. Wake up wednesday, go to class, realize Wednesday is midterm day. Walk out of class and back into it hoping maybe the universe will spontaneously reset to last week. Take midterm, fall asleep in midterm for 30 minutes in a pose that makes you look awake. Wake up, find out midterm is math heavy and you have no calculator. or a pen. Improvise with marker you find inbetween monitors. Under influence of medication, forget multiplication tables, re-create such that 10x5=500. Take final, complete, get test back next wednesday with a bunch of confused scribbles from professor stating that you did math on a short answer problem. :D
[B]I can't function on less then 7 hours of sleep, regardless. I can hardly function on less then 8 hours of sleep.
Therefore if I ever had a class that gave too much work for me to get enough sleep, it simply wouldn't get done becuase of how my mind works (it goes to sleep, even if I don't).
Here is my suggestion A: Take a saturday (I assume you don't have class Saturday and Sunday). Sleep it away, even if you have work. When you wake up you will be able to function so much better that you might find you can finish all that crap your instructer gave you in 2/3rds the time (since you'd be rested), and thus still get it all finished for Monday. It's worth a try if you don't think you can keep going the way you are. Better to take a risk and get sleep with the hope you can catch up then keep going without. [/B][/QUOTE]
That's how I work, RC. If I don't get enough sleep, I am no better than a bag of meat shaped like me. I cannot function and just fail to achieve anything during that day, no matter how important it can be. However, I have also found that pulling an all-nighter is far preferrable to going to bed and having it interrupted, as I am actually capable of thinking long into prolonged work (but completely dump short term memory and other fun bits once I enter deep sleep).
the strategy you proposed is actually what got me through on many occasions, though, as allnighters can be quite hazardous to my health (much like abruptly interrupting sleep, like this whole weekend). I've found that if I do not get enough sleep, my immune system fails abruptly and I am open to all sorts of illnesses, which is actually how I got the above mentioned flu. :P In cases where my physical health is far more crucial than capability to get work done extremely quickly (i.e. most of the year), I try to get 8 to 8.5 hours of sleep in and wake up completely rested.