While eating dinner tonight, I overheard a dad talking with his two children at the table next to me. I'd say his young son was 8-11 and his teenage daughter was 13-15. I heard them discuss college, and it made me laugh.
"And that's why when you go off to college, you don't stay up all night before a final. You make sure you go to bed early and get plenty of rest"
Good luck kids on that one. In college I pulled exactly two all nighters in my four years of college. Studying was never a big deal for me, so my study time included seeing who was in the honors study lab wanting to talk. After it was midnight or later, i'd go back to the dorm/sorority house, review my notes, and then go to sleep. Or find someone who was up studying and talk to them. My first all night-er was mainly because I hung out once again until 3am without opening a book. I reviewed notes from 3:20-5. Napped from 5-6. Picked up breakfast and reviewed notes before my 7:30 final.
This obviously made me think back to college and remember all the fun I had staying up late. I wasn't a crazy partier; I was more random than that. I had a great group of friends that would decide that IHOP was necessary at 2am or my freshmen year roomie would go through hours and hours of tv on dvd. And one time we built a fort on a snow day. The point is in college, it's all about building random friendships. You can sleep or study during the day.
In the words of Asher Rother, "I love college"
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