freshman year of college, 67 hours aside from occasional trips to a diner and sprinting to take a 1 hr Physics test.. the rest of that time was literally spent in front of my computer for my final computer science project (CS2..nothing advanced) One of the many reasons that school has one of the worst freshman retention rates.. and one of the many reasons I ended up being happier transferring elsewhere after 2 years there
I've done around 40 hrs. That's my limit. Near the end, my mind would start playing tricks on me. Not that I'd start seeing things that weren't there, but I'd start thinking of things that had no connection to anything I'd be doing. I'd be, "Wow. Why am I thinking of this? I need to go to sleep." Lol
My freshman year here at UT, I went like 50 hours without sleep. All I remember that at 3 in the morning I was walking around the UT tower and I almost passed out. I had three tests which is the reason I stayed up. I will never do that again, it was the worst feeling in the world. I'm also they type that doesn't drink caffeine or energy drinks to get through it, so it was even tougher.
50+ hours not sure the exact figure. Architecture school is notorious for sleep deprivation for the amount of work that is expected of students and going 24 hours without sleep was fairly regular. Once when I hadn't slept for about two days I was still working on my final project and started dozing off while drawing. When I dozed I would dream I was still drawing and I would wake up and realize that I had only dreamed I drew a line when I actually hadn't I had to make sure I went over everything twice. Even then there were still several lines that weren't drawn.
During finals last semester, ~36 hrs. Best feeling ever after the last exam..you go home and fall down on your bed. Wake up around 10 hrs later and see it's 3 AM.. and school's over
yep, went 3 straight days without sleep and I was studying non-stop last semester.. it felt like crap, I failed my tests, and I will never, ever, ever pull 2 allnighters in a row again.. one-night all-nighters though are fine, I've pulled an allnighter before every single exam this year, so this puts me at about 25 allnighters for the year
I've gone 4 days before when I used to work 3 jobs. I worked a day job 8am - 5pm, went to work at a call center from 6pm - 9pm then went and worked an overnight job from 10pm - 6am. I would take about 30 minutes nap between 6:30-7:30am. Driving was the worst part. I used to put the parking break on at each red light and wait for the person behind me to honk before I would move again. I was like 19 at the time. I wouldn't be able to handle it now. If you remember the movie Fight Club the description of insomnia was "everything is a copy of a copy of a copy."
Just over 60 hours at one point. 2 1/2 days. Sometime in the summer when I was in High School. I can't remember which game helped me achieve such a disgusting feat, but could actually recover quickly from that...10 hours of sleep the next day and I was just fine. Few days ago I did about 45 hours without sleep (long story) and it took almost 11 hours of sleep saturday, and 9 hours of sleep today, to recover enough to not feel like crap.
Man. I tend to think anyone who stays up longer than 24 hours is probably on something. And I don't mean caffeine.
32 hrs Had an 8 o clock class and would get up at 6:45 to be on time, and my last class was over with at 5. I had a 15 page paper to type for my english class. Well I left my jump drive in the computer lab, and I went back for it about 15 minutes later and someone had taken it. Worse part is my paper was due that day at 5. I usually email my work to myself just in case something like that happens. Well I did but not my updated and only had 5 pages. I emailed my professor and he gave me till 7 o'clock the next morning. So I had to go back to the library, find all my sources over again, and do it all over. no sleep, no energy drinks, and the library closes at 12. I spent the whole night redoing the paper and had classes the next day. That was tough..Never again..
I would routinely stay up 30+ hours in middle school. Most weekdays I would get between 3 to 6 hours of sleep and weekends I would sleep 10-12 hours. Going to sleep at midnight was early for me. My max was 56 hours and it was a horrible experience. I remember wanting to collapse around noon on the second day, but couldn't even nap in class because I ran the risk of being raped. (Don't send your kids to HISD.) No coffee, no energy drinks, and no drugs. I think I burned myself out in middle school, because once I got in high school, I just couldn't do it anymore. Even now, I have a very weird sleeping schedule, but it sticks because its what my schedule requires.
just a tad over 48hrs.. in my early 20s.. but it was quite the crazy ride of a life back then.. i still loathe those years whenever reminded..
indeed.. that was another harrowing experience in it's own right.. people i know now still can't believe i endured such miserable early schooling in my background..
When I was in the Navy, I would do some 12 hour watches with 8 hour works days and 4 hours sleep (down to 3 after eatting and cleaning up) for almost a week straight. Also, being in the reserves and working graveyard shift screws me. Go to work, get off only to go to reserves, come home for a couple hours of rest (if my kids are home no rest) then go back to night work only to go back to reserves next day, couple hours rest again, back to night job and finally some real rest...until kids wake up. That sucks, got hella sick the first time and said screw that........only to take one night off, bleh, some screw eh?
