Saturday, December 31, 2011

Edited: the 8 Stages of an All-Nighter

I saw this hilarious picture on 9gag (http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/1323879_700b.jpg).
Haha. Now that is funny but inaccurate! So here is Anusha's and my own version. Inspired by our late all-nighters and Anusha... I have written it!

1. Procrastination: We come home and sit there rejectedly staring at a blank sheet of paper. We proceed to finish all other homework while tumblr-ing/9gagging and chatting. We also start stocking up on snacks.
2. Challenge: After chatting and uselessly staring at a blank word document for hours, we finally face the clock and agree that the time is actually correct. (This should be around midnight.) We set our chat statuses on "busy" if we haven't already and set a status barring everybody away from talking to us. But of course we have our exceptions.
3. Work Terribly: For about and hour or so, we focus intensely on our work and our work alone! However, at the end of the hour we get tired and decide to look over our previous work. Ouch. It's not very pretty.
4. Complain: At this point, it is 1am. Usually we sign off and sleep by now but this time is the exception. We have to pull an all nighter to finish our work! Deciding that our work is terrible, we turn to each other and start complaining. The stress eating phase begins now.
5. Work Profusely Hard: For the next two hours or so, we dine in hell as we race against time to finish our work. Every so often, we check on each other via chat and update each other on our progress. By this hour, most people have signed off and it is just us two forever alone.
6. Breaking Down Session: We read over our "final" draft yet again and still discover it to be terrible. We break down and cry to each other. There is nothing that can be done now.
7. Adrenaline Rush: On the other hand, we somehow get an adrenaline rush or a brain blast! We usually finish our work by now. It's not up to our standards. But we'll take it.
8. Pass Out: Save, print, and pack our bags. We're done for the night. Hopefully, we'll scrape together at least two hours of sleep. Before signing off we promise each other to sleep early tomorrow. Like that's ever going to happen.

So yes, that is Anusha and my cycle of all nighters. Pretty accurate although the timings may vary. What I find amazing though is that Anusha and I sleep at about the same time. Weird, huh?

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