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...panel assembled by the Community Health Initiative to tell notoriously sleep-deprived Harvard students about the importance of a good night’s sleep. The panel, composed of sleep experts from the medical school, started out with an issue particularly close to undergraduates’ hearts: all-nighters. Stickgold said that students who stay up all night perform about 20 percent worse on tasks involving recall than students who get some sleep the night before. This may be because facts are sorted out during sleep, he said, which implies that it’s important to get enough rest...
...developing a tolerance for inordinate amusement at phrases, such as “arbitrarily small balls,” usually does the trick. Ultimately, after battling the demons of Galois theory all night, you throw on a sweatshirt and head to class, and recognize the same post-all-nighter glassy eyes and shaking hands of the kid sitting next to you. Welcome to Mathematics...
...Nighter: 1. What you pull the night before that 20-page paper you haven’t started is due. 2. Why CVS stays open...
...opportunity to take an exam that’s shorter than it was originally going to be, that’s nothing but positive,” said Raquel O. Alvarenga ’07, who used the extra hour to study after pulling an all-nighter. “Some people studied, some people went to the Greenhouse. We live-blogged,” said Neeraj “Richie” Banerji ’06, who wrote on the Team Zebra blog that the class had “been a mad social experiment...
Subject: [FMspeak-l] Who’s pulling an all-nighter in Lamont tonight?? YESSSSS...