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The 11 Stages of Pulling an All-Nighter for That Paper You Ignored

New semester, new me! Every time that new class schedule arrives, you promise yourself that things will be different; this semester, you’ll get all your work done well ahead of time so you can just relax when those big due dates roll along. And, of course, you never follow through. With friends, clubs, other classes, and our good friend Netflix, it seems impossible to fit in that huge project those the final weeks before it’s due! As the night before the deadline arrives, you know you’ll just have to bang it out in one big session. But that session never really goes according to plan, and you become trapped in the 11 stages of pulling an all-nighter: Unrealistic Optimism All right, so you’ve been procrastinating on that big project for weeks and it’s due tomorrow morning. But why stress? You can crank out that bad boy in no time. You grab a cup of coffee,

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My Story of When I Wrote My Teacher A Letter Instead Of Taking My Final Essay Exam

I failed. For the first time in my nerdy, academically-driven life, I failed a class. I knew it was a hopeless situation even going into the final exam.  My first exam score was a 6/25 and that was after several hours of studying. I thought that I’d prepared well enough. Obviously, that was me being delusional. Her teaching style clashed horribly with my learning methods. Nothing I did worked to improve the situation. I studied for days and barely slept the night before the second exam, and I still failed spectacularly. The night before the third exam I sat at a computer desk in the library for almost seven hours. The only reason I went back to my dorm that night is because I started crying mid-review. I don’t mean the soft, sniffly crying. I’m talking about the sudden, overwhelming tide of emotion that reduces you to a sobbing wreck. I failed that