I never had any all-nighters but thats probably because I am anal about scheduling/timing. But I also didn't get a 4.0.

Before I started my IB internship I was working full-time and then studying for GMAT everyday so I had about 10-12 hrs/day before being free. I guess thats sorta like practice.

But the hours in my internship usually go by quickly

Had a 3.5 in college, NEVER pulled an all nighter. The latest I was ever up was 2am. For studying, that is.

I honestly think it's pointless. I didn't ever procrastinate and always got shit done during the day.

Can all nighters be avoided in IB the same way they are avoided in school.......by being efficient in scheduling and prioritizing and not procrastinating?

I've been pulling all-nighters to get shit done since high school. Pulled plenty in college - around every finals period. I didn't do it to get ready for banking - it was just the way I liked to operate. I work best under pressure, and I preferred to hang out/get drunk/do nothing when I could and get all my work done in crunch time. All-nighters in college were awesome - our fraternity had all-nighter groups in the library with cases of red bull. Got your paper done/test crammed, handed paper in in the morning/took test and then slept all day before drinking again. As many people in banking realize, it's not the all-nighter that's hard, it's staying awake the day after.

In any case, when it came time to banking, I knew I'd have no problems with the late nights.

I was wondering the same thing ^

I have pulled probably a dozen legit all nighters in school...i used to get a rush from procrastinating and felt my best work was done under pressure...now as im a bit older and wiser...i fucking hate it

This last one was due to a scheduling misinterpretation. Bullshit.

Never pulled an all nighter. I dont know why you have to. Its not like econ/business is exactly a hard major.

Engineering/hard science majors do.

Maybe if you guys actually had challenging UG majors instead of shit tier majors with B.A. degree prefixes (wharton excluded).

I got a 3.8 suma cum laude!!!!... No shit, you you were a business major.

Major tier list.

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQP0reakw7_KCAmjvbmgLgVOxcK0SWR…

Vent over.

You definately don't function as well during/after an all-nighter than if you time budget. I always do my best work either during school or directly after, and the later it gets the less focused I am.

Pulled loads of all nighters myself. There were numerous situations where I didn't even take the protective wrap off my textbook until 11:00pm the night before a test. Like some of the folks above, the only way I could convince myself to focus was to do so under the gun. Finished UGrad with a 3.7 so I'd say my strategy worked fairly well.

In banking, efficiency can help you avoid lots of pain, but it can't stop all of it. At some point the amount of work that needs to be done is so overwhelming that you need to stay up all night to stay on top of it.

i went 2 nights in a row once... stupidest shit ever. i felt like i was hungover and retarded. advice to all: don't do it.

physics/econ double major here, pulled no all-nighters. finished with a 3.9 im definitely no genius but as long as i went to class, did the homework and studied a little before the exam i had no problem. not meaning to brag - prolly had to do with the fact that my econ classes were mostly jokes and my physics classes didn't require much memorization.

(the shitty grade i got was in a psych class in which the exams were memory based. i hate rote learning so i just said fuck it and didn't study)

uhhhh everyone?

if you don't pull at least one all-nighter a semester you're not doing college right

that image is bullshit. computer science is one of the hardest majors out there and it's considered easier than geology and law? philosophy is easier than kinesiology and information technology? hahha

in difficulty: hard sciences/engineering/cs >> harder social sciences/humanities >> easier social sciences/humanities. definitely lots of variance between schools (uchicago economics or MIT linguistics is probably harder than the same major everywhere else for example). to be honest though as long as you do well no one cares about your major, if you genuinely enjoy it i have more respect for you than a kid who did econ/finance just because he wanted that sweet wall street job

Yes, but just because my (non-target) floor mates wouldn't shut up and turn off their goddamn bases at 4:00 friggin am.

I'm curious how many hours you need to sleep the next day / evening

Working 25 hours/week + managing an npo = an all nighter roughly every other week. Usually working until 4am ~3 times/week. And that's with a business major-thank god I'm not an engineer or some shit. IBD should be a nice transition!

I pulled numerous all nighters in college. Drinking.

I agree with some of that table, but whoever put philosophy as a shit major is an idiot.

Nothing but respect for the engineers. They basically have to take the equivalent of two majors and only get credit for one.

In the midst of an all-nighter right now. Debating whether to call it quits at 4am and wake up a few hours later or just pop this addy and burn the midnight oil.

This probably could have been avoided with a little better time management but hey its finals i could really use all twenty four hours in a day - two projects, paper, and ten homeworks due tomorrow; two finals saturday; two hardest monday and one more tuesday as the icing on the cake

copiousamountsofamphetamines

Only pulled three all-nighters in college, and they were all consecutive (took 15 minute power naps every 8-10 hours but that's it). I was taking a grad level math course and the entire grade was based on the final exam. Naturally I didn't do anything until the week before the exam. Learned all the material in the last week and got a 97. Never doing that shit again.

As someone who pulled tons of all-nighters, I strongly believe it's just plain better to be diligent and study evenly over time. It makes life easier and you retain information much better. If I could go back, I'd do it all differently b/c not managing my time really lowered my quality of life.

And econ can be a very tough major. Don't shart on everything just b/c it's not engineering. And if you're doing engineering to get into finance, you may be book smart but you have no common sense (assuming you knew you wanted a finance/business career before you declared a major).

Pulled one last night (knocked out an 11-pager between 8 and midnight and cranked a mass revision on a 27-pager while watching the Royal Wedding). Royal Wedding definitely slowed my productivity.

Stupidest all-nighter I ever pulled was writing a 5 page paper while watching the entire run of the British Office. I got an A so I might have been onto something. I wrote 20 pages in one night for that class later that year while taking a couple pong breaks.

Are all-nighters honestly such a big deal? I always pull all nighters for tests/papers, and i function fine the next day. I would rather spend time with friends on normal days, and start work after they go to sleep when i have to get work done. Pulled 3 all nighters this week because of tests. I work really quickly when there's no one else around and it allows me more time to do other stuff for 90% of the school year (just pull all nighters before tests and midterms). then again, maybe i have an abnormally good memory.

Wow, i apologise for how arrogant that post sounded

This is classic

http://www.youtube.com/embed/gfI06ZUTfPI