Stayed up all night to watch the CS:GO major only to see TL choke 15 match points against LG

Wasn't the best all nighter (nor the worst), but it definitely was a highlight

I was at camp and we were going to sleep up on a mountain outside in sleeping bags for one night. At around 2 am when we were all about to sleep i returned from the group of people who i was playing cards with to find out that my sleeping bag wasn't there and i couldn't find it because it was too dark.I couldn't sleep without it because it was cold so I thought I'd just sit near the fire for the rest of the night but my dick camp leader said everyone has to go to sleep. So I lied on rocky ground trembling from cold for 5 hours until the sun came up and I found my sleeping bag that was like 10 feet away.

The first one I did on my own was playing Crossfire and TF2 in my bed on my laptop. It was weird, it took no effort for me to stay up. I was like 12. I didn't even like Crossfire.

At the end of one all-nighter, I proceeded to shitpost all over UGC

Gonna pull an all nighter tonight to study for two midterms tommrw

Pulled one last night to watch the Cubs break the curse, don't regret it

not gonna lie this is a horrible decision
if you feel you don't know the information to the point that you want to literally stay up all night studying you may as well review what you do know and get some rest instead of trying to learn new things
your sleep deprived mind will be far worse at learning new concepts and retaining them afaik sleep is a big part of the process of converting things to memory

that being said im not a doctor and if you've literally not studied whatsoever it might be good to become familiar with the subject instead of being entirely unprepared

although sleeping is great if you're confident about the material, i have regretted every single time i have slept while not being 100% confident. stress is a major inhibitor to long-term knowledge recollection. of course, studying as early as possible (especially by actively solving similar problems) is optimal because you get to sleep & not need to study as vigorously. on top of that, if you have a really good grade buffer, you can lightly study & be fine.

and although some classes heavily weigh test performance, i think students in general bank too much of their grade on it. if homework &/or projects significantly affect your grade, and if tests are relatively infrequent (a few in the semester), put way more effort on that than the tests. you should not be a position where you have to rely on good test performance to receive good marks. it should be obvious: you get hours upon hours per week to tackle homework, whereas you get an hour or two every month to do a test. do you really want to rely on that single hour of test taking to get an A in the class?

putting a lot of effort into your homework pushes way more information to your long-term memory than trying to optimally study for tests while slacking off on homework. what you've learned shouldn't be local to this semester: everything should build upon itself.

inevitably, you'll take a test that's much harder than what you (and probably everyone else) have prepared for (either due to poor communication from the professor, or due to additional challenge purposefully imposed upon the students).