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[IncognitoHFX]

How often to you pull all-nighters here in Korea?

Back in the university days I'd be up for 48-72 hours routinely. Usually because I didn't start a paper until a few days before it was due, when everyone else had been working on it steadily over a period of a month or two.

In Korea, I've been up for as long as four days straight (climbing Jirisan), and a few 48-hour "days" during the workweek (to maximize my free time).

What about you?

[ceesgetdegrees]

I use to do them a couple of times a month but all involved excessive alcohol consumption. i can't be bothered now though.

[Justin Hale]

I avoid it at all costs. I love my beauty sleep. I enjoy nights out, but a relatively early finish is always preferable because I hate waking up at 1pm. However on Superbowl night/morning, I stayed out from 10pm Sunday til 10pm Monday, but that's very rare for me. A buddy of mine does it routinely and smokes 100 cigarettes when he does so - he'll be lucky to make 40.

[ceesgetdegrees]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I've done a couple. It's nothing like my uni years where all-nighters happened several times a week at certain parts of the term. They were fueled by Nescafe and not Hite, however.

[TheChickenLover]

I've been up all night. Not sure why. I just tossed & turned well until 5:30am. After getting out of bed, my wife asked me what was wrong. I said I couldn't sleep. She asked me if I was stressed or upset at anything, which I said no because I wasn't. May seem strange, but sometimes I really feel I forget 'how' to fall asleep.

Booze or meds are not an option for me to have it happen, but I'm totally exhausted at work. I just finished my last class & am heading home for some quiet time in bed.

Zz z z zzz (hopefully soon)

Chicken

[ajgeddes]

These days, 0. I have no desire to stay out all night and by about 3AM, I just want to go home. I do stay up later from time to time, but I am at home when I do it. I find 1AM is generally the climax of fun, and after that it is only downhill, unless for a very special occasion.

[eliross]

A simple rule of thumb, if i go out with a group of guys I'll be up all night. If I go out with my lady friend we usually make it back before the sun rises, usually. Generally I don't go out because I hate wasting my weekends sleeping tell 4pm and feeling like crap for the rest of the time.

[MissSeoul]

[cj1976]

[IncognitoHFX]

When I was in the reserves I was awake for something like 96 hours. It wasn't mandatory, I just had so much stuff to do that I couldn't sleep. On the fourth day I told my Master Corporal I saw his ghost or some such nonsense... he gave me one day's medical leave and I slept for 18 hours.

[waynehead]

Uh maybe I'm weird but I don't pull too many all nighters. I stay up till 3/4/5/6 at least once or twice a week on the weekends, but when the evening dies down I then go home and sleep till noon. The only times I've ever stayed away for 48 hours + were times when I was traveling and even then I was nodding off occasionally.

[Chris Kwon]

I hate all nighters, especially if its for studying. Unless i'm getting laid, I really don't like staying up past 5 am even on a good night.

[Dome Vans]

It depends. For me to do an all-nighter I would have to take into consideration:

*What day it was.
*If I would be busy the next week at all.
*Depends what you would class as an all nighter. In my uni days, it was going to bed when the birds were singing and the sun was coming up. In Sweden in the summer this was about 2am so I technically most nights were all nighters.

If I have a massive night I'm generally wrecked for about a week. Man, I'm getting old. It just takes longer to recover and a bit of fore thought.

Never ever done a studying allnighter. Never saw the point. One guy on my CELTA did a lesson planning allnighter during the course. He looked bad the next day.

[indytrucks]

If you're into all-nighters, wait until you have kids. The first four months are a cracker.