To all night or not

linea

Ive done it once already, you dont have to do this right of passage more than once do you?

Probably, I find that failing to plan and bad time management are traits of alot of designers. The mavericks stay up all night.

bellwells

@remus said:

Ive done it once already, you dont have to do this right of passage more than once do you?

Yes you do. In my younger days, I pulled 2 all-nighters in a row. I'm still tired.

pbacot

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Peter

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Daniel

Remus, in architecture school the all-nighter is an all too frequent occurance (for undergrads, at least). During my first run through university I once atayed up 72 hours straight (some how I ended up with three studios that semester). My second run through college, zero all nighters.

remus

Cheers for the advice guys, although i must say its all a bit late really, i went to bed after alans post.

I got up a bit earlier and managed to finish of my work, just.

I think i might pull a few more though, in preparation for uni. Wouldnt want to go unprepared.

solo

All nighters are par for the course, you are going to have many of them in the future.

In my work I am constatntly doing them as my niche is last minute illustrations for clients that have either procrastinated, got urgent last minute requests, or needed additional changes done and the company they use could not fulfil their requests in a short time frame.
I also deal with clients in different parts of the world on awkward time zones, I am very often on a 'webex' conference 3am in the morning.
So I had to get used to it and use the rendering times to get power naps in.

Phil Rader AIA

@remus said:

Ive done it once already, you don't have to do this right of passage more than once do you?

YES you do...the only difference is that as you get older the body takes longer to recover from it.

Daniel

Phil, I took no-dose caffeine tablets once in freshman year, and had a bad reaction and never took them again. My all-nighters where pure natural adrenalin - I was a bundle of nervous energy when younger. Plus, I loved what I was doing, so that helped alot.

Phil Rader AIA

Yes now my all-nighters are mostly natural I stil drink a few cups of coffee but I reckon that my blood is 30% caffeine now anyway because of years of addiction to it. So for me caffeine is a natural substance.

Phil Rader AIA

@daniel said:

Remus, in architecture school the all-nighter is an all too frequent occurance (for undergrads, at least). During my first run through university I once atayed up 72 hours straight (some how I ended up with three studios that semester). My second run through college, zero all nighters.

Thank some chemist for inventing no-dose and jolt cola a particularly effective cocktail combination to keep the peepers open...although you can no longer draw straight lines for some reason.

bytor

@unknownuser said:

So for me caffeine is a natural substance.

I find lately that my body is just a housing for a coffee filter / exchange for 8 or so cups a day.........and yes there is a natural process involved!

Bytor