What's the latest you've stayed up "finishing something off"?

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Tommorow's the last day of term = project deadlines. It's now 4:32am, and I'm going to bed (under the surely mistaken premise that I'll be able to get up early tomorrow to do the last bit). Wish me luck.

― Graham, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven am. girls expect so much from you these days!

― ethan, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

About noon the following day having begun at 6 pm the day before. Radio station program guides can be murder.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

worked on my art take home final from 8pm to 8am the next morning. of course most worked with partners but my only friend is caffeine.

― kevin enas, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Last Wednesday chained to the office til 8:30am though I wasn't strictly finishing anything off - I was here in a supervisory capacity. I had worked from 10am the previous morning.

― Pete, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Worked all through the night getting my June assessment stuff finished and up. Worked till 3/4am getting my end-of-year assessment stuff finished and up and then woke up at 6 and somehow managed to get my ass to university to finish up. Good luck Graham!

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i stayed up for thirty hours writing an essay on Sons and Lovers, three hours of which involved a Pro Plus melt-down spent rearranging the words in a single sentence, failing to make it in any way coherent and talking to the little top-hatted rabbit bodied-giraffe headed critters running around my feet. in the end, i got an extension.

― nickie, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I once stayed up for three days and two nights writing a 5000 word assignment from scratch on the efficacy of Industrial Tribunals in administering justice. I got 65% for it and was dead chuffed. It cost me a king's ransom in coffee and Marlboros and I was a gibbering wreck by the end, but it just proves that last minute projects CAN be successful.

― Trevor, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All my projects are done, and hence my odd references to what is news and questions about British papers will stop.

― Ronan, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have stayed up all night and had no time to sleep. I think I've gone about 35 hours without sleep in the past due to project/paper deadlines. Which explains the madness a bit.

― Nicole, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks Mitch. I suprised myself and got up at 7:45 and did it, then wandered in withut breakfast past a burning abandoned stolen car (true) to hand it in. I'm right no on a caffeine/sleep deprivation high.

― Graham, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it any good? All mine are just shite from leaving them till the last minute then churning them out.

― Ronan, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah Ethan, you rogue.

We stayed up till 11 last night finishing the Mr. Hanky for our front door.

― Samantha, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My final year portfolio of practical journalism pieces: two weeks of intense work, topped off by a marathon session that lasted from 11 in the morning until 3 the next afternoon. I then ran (I am quite a heavy smoker - I don't run) to my department and couldn't speak to the admin people for 15 minutes due to not being able to breathe. Then I went to the pub, although I was told I was being a little weird that evening.

― Anna, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I stayed up until 4 tweaking the freakytrigger.co.uk launch back in June, and very satisfying it was too.

― Tom, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How many times have I been exhausted in the morning after staying up later tweeking the freakytrigger...

― Mark C, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Stayed up for three days straight in finals season my last semester in school. Regularly pulled 2-3 allnighters a semester, often on CS lab projects.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Made n sense, full of non-sequuters, didn't bother glueing the graph in, poorly researched, whole sections missing. But nothing matters this year, as long as you pass, so there's no point in trying.

― Graham, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the latest I've ever worked on anything til is about 10pm.

― james, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Many times. I was certainly up at 4am finishing the last (ever?) update of Elidor.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well i am usually up at 3 am or os .

― anthony, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Almost every university essay I write is finished no earlier than 2:00am and often quite a bit later. I actually think I work best under those conditions, but without experiencing the alternative (ie. getting something done before the 11th hour), who knows? It seems to be working, though.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well, i did ok, vis a vis actually finishing essays to deadlines in my first year, although i did pull one all nighter almost exactly 9 years ago at the end of my first term. once i got to the second year though, it was permanent extensions and not actually starting til radcliffe had finished, resulting in me not actually doing my dissertation and thus not having an honours degree. as the careers woman pointed out at the time though, no one really cares in, ahem, the real world...

― carsmilesteve, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One for schoolwork, but four or five for fun stuff.

― Maria, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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