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All-Nighter: The Vicious Cycle [PIC]

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  • MikeonTV, on 05/14/2008, -3/+202I am reading this because I'm on step 2.
    • hammburglar, on 05/14/2008, -1/+18ive been jumping between 6 and 7 for about a year now. needless to say, i get a lot done....
      • nevinl, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1yeah....i think thats how college is...at least in the degrees that will actually amount to something...
    • RockeN5, on 05/14/2008, -2/+10Tonight I'm staying up even later because I did nothing productive today. They must have spied on me to make this chart!
      • Fordi, on 05/14/2008, -1/+2I crashed at about 8pm, after having stayed up until then from the previous day. I'm now being unproductive.
    • rpgmaker, on 05/14/2008, -1/+18So this is how the Debian logo was born?
      • Fordi, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4Undoubtedly; apt was obviously created from an interlocking series of developers pulling all-nighters.
      • Lanlost, on 05/14/2008, -1/+2You, sir, deserve more diggs for that comment.
    • glinsvad, on 05/14/2008, -1/+7*wishes for insomnia so I could pull all-nighters every night*
      • ivantalboys, on 05/14/2008, -1/+7You do know your alter ego is unlikely to be as cool as Tyler Durden.
    • Yuo122986, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2I just pulled an all nighter for two exams today because I spent the last two days watching foreign films and playing super smash. And right before my first morning shower I decide to check digg... It's scary how much digg knows my life.
    • rigorious, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2once I partied for 9 hours - slept 2 - worked (delivering mail) 6, after it all I hadn't eaten for 22 hours. I thought I was gonna die.. or at least puke :/
    • rentmitchum, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Every 3 days I start one of these cycles. I stay up all night and through most of a day so I can start getting up early again. Then for about 3 days my bedtime gets progressively later until I'm screwed and can't take my GF to work in the morning, so I gotta pull another 30 hour waking period to reset.
    • mrASSMAN, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1I am currently at the bottom of this cycle and every day I try to pull myself out of it.. No success as of yet. I will try again today.
  • ChiffX, on 05/14/2008, -1/+89And all of this is because a paper assigned 3 weeks ago was due the following morning, and despite pulling an all-nighter, you still fall short of the minimum word count.
    • antiorblkflag9, on 05/14/2008, -1/+18Yeah, I have two exams tomorrow....hmm...I wonder what's going on in the upcoming stories?
    • thesparrowband, on 05/14/2008, -0/+32yeah, and you make it just below 500 words or something and all thats going through your head is "Are they gonna count it? he wont actually count it. nobody actually counts it....but he might. what if he does? oh god.."
      • nreynolds, on 05/14/2008, -0/+13screw flanders screw flanders screw flanders
      • carrtoonist, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4Or "that is just the kind of writer I am, I don't need as many words as most people".
      • SargedeathXmode, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3lol, I think the same thing too. Cept it's usually over writing... As long as it's not a significant paragraph over. Or under. They go through like 30+ papers, so they really don't count XD.
      • ayeroxor, on 05/14/2008, -1/+3If I was the professor, I'd OCR everyone's paper and have Word Processor du Jour give me the word count :D
        • Treshnell, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1I'd just require digital copies and throw the paper medium out the window.
        • SargedeathXmode, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1Good luck with the eye-strain and the fact that you have to work indoors all day.
        • ayeroxor, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1Thanks!
    • Brss45, on 05/14/2008, -0/+28even better when you pull and all nighter, finish the whole thing, and the teacher decides no to collect it until next monday.

      that's happened more than once. such a let down.
      • FortyNiner323, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1yeah, LAST WEEK! ahhh
      • Dystisis, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1You're one of those guys who ruin it for everybody by asking the teacher if we were supposed to deliver our homework, aren't you?
      • glinsvad, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1even better when everyone else in your group decides to pull an all-nighter, then you show up fully rested the next morning to correct typos in the finished report
      • TheSlinky, on 05/14/2008, -1/+0The best is when instead of pulling an all-nighter u do it as quickly as possible without regard to quality, get it done in a few hours and end up getting a higher grade for it than all your friends. Happens to me all the time.
    • Harbinger67, on 05/14/2008, -6/+6I'm the opposite. I end up overshooting the maximum page limit by one or two pages, and have to frantically cut stuff out. The only downside is is that by that time I have forgotten what I wrote and have to check and re-check everything to make sure I didn't cut out important things. It's not fun.
      • mrASSMAN, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Same here. I am a chronic over-typer and procrastinator.. it really doesn't make any sense.
    • jbham184, on 05/14/2008, -0/+8the story of my life...
    • Refridgeron, on 05/14/2008, -3/+3Same thing happened to me... except over an entire quarter we were to do a one and a half page paper about anything ... I decided to wait 'til the night before the last day of the semester and I wrote 13 pages...too bad i was up 'til 7:45 doing it so I slept and missed school that day... Still got credit though.
      • Lith25, on 05/14/2008, -0/+10You submitted a 13 page paper for a 1.5 page assignment? I wouldn't of even graded that if I were a professor.
        • Anpheus, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1The professor probably had a teaching aide who was told to grade -everything-!
        • Refridgeron, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1I meant every *week* we were supposed to hand in a 1.5 page assignment on anything we wanted. But lateness didn't matter so in the end it all added up to a little less than 13. The point was that I'm most productive during "all-nighters"...jeez.
    • exabytes16, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Wow, thanks for reminding me I had a paper due tomorrow. :/
      • vivalagoat, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2your gonna fail if you write it like that.
    • richgustavson, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Parkinson's Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

      Hey, if you wait til the last minute, you only spend a day on it, rather than 3 weeks ;)
  • vonfook, on 05/14/2008, -3/+168I once stayed up all night to get a golden Chocobo yet I would never stay up for work.
    • Jhiaxuz, on 05/14/2008, -0/+16Round Island was worth it.
    • CertifyedGoon, on 05/14/2008, -2/+6Did you pick up knights of the round while you were out there?
    • cknyan, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5That's actually worth staying up for. :D
    • tnt3219, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5I see you that you have your priorities straight.
    • 4d669, on 05/14/2008, -1/+1THE E-PEN0R!
    • DarkDx, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1I remember playing FF 9 a LOT, I had a save just before the final monster (but before entering the bigass tree) and I had my chocobo all pimped out, it could even fly and everything. THen the savefile got corrupt.


      :(
    • mechatak, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Me too!
    • mastazed, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2yes i remember like it was yesterday. i could run on anything!!
  • Beanstudd2, on 05/14/2008, -1/+108http://www.campusgrotto.com/the-all-nighter.html
    • cjflashman, on 05/14/2008, -3/+2Boy oh boy can I wait for Senior Project's or what?
      -_-
    • mrASSMAN, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Man.. that matches me so perfectly, except I usually have to sacrifice the breakfast.
  • Sucka27, on 05/14/2008, -5/+102I thought it was...I do coke so I can work longer hours...I work longer hours so I can make more money....I make more money so I can do more coke....
    • ShempRider, on 05/14/2008, -0/+37Oh, that'll never work.
      Do meth.

      /Don't do meth.
    • cannabrain, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Unnervingly accurate
    • pear1jamten, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4yea that cycle works for about a month till you lose your job from being depressed out of your mind
    • foofighter828, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Where does Adderol fit into this image?
      • mrASSMAN, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1I know so many people addicted to Adderall.. personally I rely on adrenaline.
    • Psi57, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Yep, just replace coke with good 'ol Addy and it works :D
    • funknjunk, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1COKE? Pfft...you ever suck dog for dick
    • cannabrain, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1DOG? ppfffft...you ever try to revive a hopeless meme?
  • Djstawberryjam, on 05/14/2008, -7/+2Been there way to many times! Still there now will be there for a while, uhh probs why I get all my work in 5 minutes before it should, blood pressure will kill me I know it! ah the joys of no sleep.
  • mentallyinhell, on 05/14/2008, -0/+57That cycle really sucks when you have work at 4:30 in the morning.
  • muslax27, on 05/14/2008, -0/+56Kudos on linking it to the original creator of the comic...
  • lordmetroid, on 05/14/2008, -0/+18Ohoo, as I write this the time is 3:21 at night and it isn't an uncommon time for me to be awake. I have lived this life since before Christmas. I think I reached the bottom of the cycle.
    • sexybobo, on 05/14/2008, -2/+14http://xkcd.com/361/
    • FortyNiner323, on 05/14/2008, -1/+0.
    • Metis2be, on 05/14/2008, -0/+53 is late for you? I know it's time to go to bed when the school buses drive by in the morning.
    • J3EBS, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6I usually go to sleep when the birds chirping in the morning start to piss me off. This is usually around 4:30-5:00
      • brettmurf, on 05/14/2008, -2/+2I am just glad that I think the mockingbird around me finally died. ***** them.
      • JRnubis, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1im happy to know dat im not da only one dat uses birds as a way to know when to go to sleep. And yes they usually they do come out at 4
    • synyster, on 05/14/2008, -0/+13 in the morning is nothing,
  • dasdef, on 05/14/2008, -2/+45my GOD thats me. Damn it all.
  • freshgrease, on 05/14/2008, -1/+30If this isn't the truth, I don't know what is. Describes my sleep cycle to the t.
  • cjflashman, on 05/14/2008, -4/+20Mah. P:

    I am somewhere at the teenage stage of life where you stay up late because you felt like it. Then you PROMISE yourself to go to be giving yourself at LEAST 10 hours of sleep. Then you say "Psh, screw that" and you look forward to the weekend.

    (Then sometimes you stay up/sleep in on weekends. Then you are not tired at 2AM when you have to leave for school/work/whatever in 2/3/4 hours.)
  • jordyhoyt, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6this is oh so timely. i went to bed at 8am this morning, ugh
  • mnemy, on 05/14/2008, -3/+35Inaccurate! The last step is all-nighter --> Party --> crash. When you manage to complete whatever you had to do, such as finals, ya gots to keg stand until the last ouch of strength leaves your body. Then you sleep for 20 hrs straight.
    • twrife, on 05/14/2008, -0/+13I don't go to parties. :(
    • nevinl, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1na...for me at that point I head home from work and stay up for another 3-4 hrs getting my hwork/lab done =
  • ligyron, on 05/14/2008, -22/+4Sorry, I can't relate to this
  • johanrocks, on 05/14/2008, -3/+22This was basically my life for the last month because I had a ton of work between school, work, life, etc. I finally crashed a little under a week ago. I slept at 8PM on Friday and woke up 1AM on Sunday. And it felt AMAZING.
    • zspeed78, on 05/14/2008, -0/+10Thats the longest I heard anyone sleep without getting ran over by a car.
    • DarkDx, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Lol that's a ***** of time.
    • idreamwideyed, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2i havent slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
  • Lenbot, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4Hence working a Call center(Any Office Job) will eventually kill you compared to going out and being a carpenter.
  • InspectorGadget, on 05/14/2008, -0/+9The thumbnail image next to the headline looks like the Debian logo at first glance.
  • PFS1, on 05/14/2008, -1/+43I predict that phdcomics will be digg's next xkcd.
    • maabus, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1PHD Comics ftw! seriously--it's good *****
    • DarkDx, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Yeah just let the diggers look for good comics before and they will start to post them.
    • jpjandrade, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2I just hope people realize it's about grad life, not undergrad school.
      • ghostfaceDX, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2The situations in the comic can be applied to undergraduate life. Everyone reads and laughs at Dilbert, but they are all not bitter engineers.
        • BoneheadFarker, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1You're right. Some of us are bitter technical analysts.
  • drewsheldon01, on 05/14/2008, -7/+2Mirror pls??
  • blaxbb, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5dugg for exam life
  • PocketWatch, on 05/14/2008, -6/+59Not the only cycle I'm a fan of... http://xkcd.com/140/
    • MSstar, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5that's the tostitos conspiracy you know that? not enough salsa for 1 bag of chips, and not enought chips left for a brand new salsa... repeat
    • X9001, on 05/14/2008, -1/+1No, you are a fan
  • drewsheldon01, on 05/14/2008, -6/+3mirror
  • Nhmarine, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7whoa, how did they know my methods of procrastination?
  • UsedToVacation, on 05/14/2008, -18/+1...not funny lol.
    • jennabunnykins, on 05/14/2008, -0/+15then why is there a 'lol' at the end of your statement?
      • maci01, on 05/14/2008, -0/+9Because he laughed at his own statement that was funny (it wasn't). LOLOLOLOOLOLK
  • diggester, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4Mirror:
    http://www.linkinn.com/static/_All_Nighter_The_Vic ...
  • Witchbaby, on 05/14/2008, -2/+2SLACKERS!!!
  • Optica8, on 05/14/2008, -10/+0Buried for being lame.
  • koalaznbear, on 05/14/2008, -0/+28Digg only facilitates this cycle.
    • cannabrain, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7*****
      • synyster, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1 i don't know what you did there(how did you do that? some kind of unseeable ASCII character)
      • DarkDx, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1I'm so sleepy that I couldn't get to see your comment!!
  • mecharabbit, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Makes me want to go back to college. I never get a chance to not do anything productive during the day now.
  • Bkaufman, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7I used to be this stupid, until I realized that the internet and work are not good friends :) I just go to the library and force myself to focus for a few hours, you should all try it, it makes life alot less stressful.
  • apmtt, on 05/14/2008, -1/+0This perfectly describes last week for me.
  • Gregsaw, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1I was at the top of the page wondering if there was an xkcd for this situation, so I Ctrl+F'd xkcd and found 2 results. remarkable
  • niftycake, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4Coincidence that this is during finals week?
  • Remmiz, on 05/14/2008, -0/+67Bad memories of a summer a couple years ago...
    -Stay up all night for whatever reason
    -Sleep from 9am-5pm
    -Tell yourself you will stay up for 24hrs to reset your clock
    -Fall asleep at noon the next day
    -Repeat the endless cycle
    • kingvik, on 05/14/2008, -0/+9I have good memories of that summer.
      • evi1, on 05/14/2008, -0/+10I have good memories of your mom during that summer.
        • Seantacular, on 05/14/2008, -0/+13Your mom has good memories of me during that summer.
        • Maver1c, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6Your mom has good memories of herself that summer?...
        • ghostfaceDX, on 05/14/2008, -1/+1Her mom has good memories of yourself that summer.
    • DAGman27, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2I'm stuck in that EXACT cycle right now...The one day I managed to stay up past noon, I ended up falling asleep at 5AM the next day. Your brain goes to mush after 36 hours without sleep.
      • BoneheadFarker, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1No. You only think it goes to mush after 36 hours, when in reality it turned to mush several hours before.
    • SqlByte, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Happens to me all the time, because caffeine is not working for me anymore. I can't find a cheap everyday drug to keep me awake.
    • UnWorthy1, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1reset'n the ol' clock...that is my excuse every time...and for every 10 times you say it...you actually stay up for 24 hours...the other 9 times you go to sleep at noon....
    • Iztikeit, on 05/14/2008, -0/+0Sounds like my cycle, except mine was mostly because of drugs.......I don't remember most of it but I was having a blast at the time.
  • klick37, on 05/14/2008, -11/+2Far less amazing than the delicious cycle:
    http://xkcd.com/140/
  • CertifyedGoon, on 05/14/2008, -6/+0As a recent college graduate I can fully attest to the truth of this image.
  • radikul, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5this is so true
  • OmEGa8943, on 05/14/2008, -1/+2story of my life
  • FadieZ, on 05/14/2008, -0/+30The weirdest ***** thing is I just pulled two all-nighters in a row and was about to go to bed when I came across this pic. Genius.

    Anyway, good night all.
    • KingGorilla, on 05/14/2008, -0/+15sleep well sweet prince
    • WallnutBoy, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2I've never managed two all-nighters in a row. I always crash out in the evening of the night after an all-nighter. =/

      I worship you. Sweet dreams!
  • DirtPile, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2More like, borophyll.
  • Hetman, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1That is really true, but there should be an aderral reset button, where you get your work done while tired and then fall asleep.
  • AGONYTUESDAY, on 05/14/2008, -1/+33a spiral that repeats itself is called a circle.
    • supermajic, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2It's way more entertaining when it's called a spiral though.
    • mrASSMAN, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2It starts off as a downward spiral, then it loops and becomes a recurring circle of insomnia.
  • Hkessell, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2In my case it's, "Oh let's nap for an hour and set the alarm to make sure I wake up to finish this paper..." ---6am, "Great, I didn't *****' wake up"
  • lhbaker, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4You know you're in it when you're eating pizza for breakfast, in your underwear, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
  • Kalakov, on 05/14/2008, -0/+23Glad to see there are so many other folks just like me...
    • mrASSMAN, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Same here.. makes me feel like we all have so much in common.. *group hug*
  • TRJW, on 05/14/2008, -1/+7STOP. DRAWING. MY. LIFE!!
  • gothelium, on 05/14/2008, -1/+2Oh my god, I'm not alone on that?!
  • Sarawanan, on 05/14/2008, -0/+11This is so true and I'm currently on a 2 hour sleep per day routine, life is way too busy these days and I wonder why I even come to Digg. Actually, I don't think I'm coming back.
  • nelyafinwe, on 05/14/2008, -1/+1hahahha the funniest thing in my day (yeah the day that gets extended cause i didn't do what i was supposed to)
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