Anatomy Of An All Nighter

Hi. Hello. Welcome. Thank you for choosing UTB as your procrastination destination today. We dissected an all nighter for you.

Time check: 9pm

• Recognizing that you have a final tomorrow
• 10 minute Reddit break
• Understanding that you have a final tomorrow
• 10 minute Tumblr break
• Internalizing that you have a final tomorrow
• 10 minute Facebook break
• Playing with the idea of playing with the idea of starting to study

Time check: 10pm

• Breaking down what you're gonna study and when
• Breaking down
• Determining how much time each skipped lecture is gonna cost you
• Calculating how much sleep you would get if you were to fall asleep right now, or now

Time check: 11pm

• Opening a Blackboard/Canvas tab
• Spending 10 minutes scrolling through someone's/your own Facebook timeline
• Calculating the lowest grade you need to convince your parents that you're doing okay
• Rounding to the next nearest hour to start studying
• Doing a quick stress relief exercise

Time check: whenever, honestly

• Cracking open the dusty textbook you were so proud to get a discount on
• Being jittery as these gifs after a ninth latté
• Not giving up
• Convincing yourself that you work well under pressure
• Shotgunning readings, problem sets, practice tests, all that schtuff

Time check: the line between too early and too late

• Like treading water, except being awake
• Recoiling from, hissing at sunrise
• One last skim-through
• Scheduling a post-exam block of sleep
• Telling yourself that you got dis