[This message has been edited by Pulse_of_Shift (edited 12-07-2010 @ 07:55 PM).]

I have stopped sleeping.


Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I am intermittently nocturnal.

Indeed, studying for finals has altered my sleep schedule to the point where for the past 3 days, I have taken a final in the morning, gone to the lab briefly, gone to my apartment, slept 6 hours, got up, and studying until my final the next day.

Whilst I'm stupidly nocturnal, stay awake until 6am (if there's no school) and then sleep for 12 hours <.<

AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! You and your timezones

I'm nocturnal about 28.5% of the time, completely ruins my sleep pattern for the rest of the time.

Also does anyone from the UK have a good website showing the difference the new uni fees legislation will make?

More specifically a comparison of now and in the future for total cost to average students.

[This message has been edited by Maffia (edited 12-09-2010 @ 02:37 PM).]

It might be that your internal diurnal clock is cocked up.

Many people who struggle with a normal working hours schedule find out that their internal biologic "day clock" counts 1 day as like 27 or 30 hours or something.

That is to say, left to their own devices, without external cues or pressures, they would rise naturally at the same point in a 30-hour cycle.

The clock mismatch is congenital, and permanent barring some sort of neurologic disaster. These people struggle their whole lives with chronic sleep deprivation, it's like living with jet lag every day for the rest of your life. There's measures you can take to learn to cope with it. You can use artificial sun-spectrum lights to try and coax your body to feel wakeful during normal day hours, sleepy at night. There's melatonin, which isn't proven to do much for you after the first few nights. There's night shift work, which oddly enough is a good fit for people with this problem, even though they rarely ever see more than a few hours of sunlight a day. Maybe for people who are at their sharpest at 10 pm, it makes sense.

If you can't work nights, or your career choice is overwhelmingly one of conventional working hours, you get to suck it up and hope you catch up at some point.

I have similarly bad sleep patterns to the rest of you guys, I've always struggled with getting up in the mornings while rarely feel tired at night. Got up at 2:30pm this afternoon, got a cheeky hour and half daylight...

Been getting up crazy late since i've had all these essays to do. Got up at 1.30 today so i'm a little worried about getting to my seminar which starts at 12 tomorrow
Especially as i'm pr drunk right now which is never helpful

My term finished a week ago, just trying to finish my dissertation which is taking foreeeeeeeeeeeeeever

silly cambridgeford with silly terms.

Been getting up crazy late since i've had all these essays to do. Got up at 1.30 today so i'm a little worried about getting to my seminar which starts at 12 tomorrow

the cold makes me stay in bed. luckily the snow also shut uni for like a week so both of the deadlines i have where pushed back by three days.

[This message has been edited by Jax (edited 12-09-2010 @ 07:39 PM).]

you guys are weird.

my sleep patterns have always been really consistent, except in high school for some reason (i probably just wasn't sleeping enough period). in college early on i'd sleep through classes i had at 1pm and such, but that was because i wasn't going to bed until really late (like anyone else). in the end i pretty much always ended up with 8 or 9 hours of sleep (sometimes 10 or 11 if i had missed a few hours the day before).

my last year of college i tried to consistently wake up before 9am no matter what, for no reason except to make it easier on days when i had to wake for an 8am class. i also liked it because it made the days seem longer (it's way easier to waste time late at night than in the morning when it's daylight out). i've tried to keep that up in the year and a half since but with varying results.

Good for you, you sound like what I should be striving for, but honestly, I can't be bothered

At the moment of writing this, it is 3.20 AM

Anyone wanna write my CalcIII exam for me? Shit doesn't apply at all to anything but Physical and Quantum chemistry and even then the majority of the bullshit in Calc you don't use.

****ing retarded that such an involved math class is required when the most you use from it is Partial Derivatives and sometimes multi-variable.


Raaaging at Planes right now.

love being a HS senior, don't have to do shit

i miss having to do shit.

Follow up to my previous post: definitely not making the seminar tomorrow cos it's 5.30am and i'm still up and still drunk
also the landlords are inspecting the house tomorrow which sucks but whatever

i miss having to do shit.

55 hours this week worth of work with 10 still to come. Two jobs woooo.

***ing retarded that such an involved math class is required when the most you use from it is Partial Derivatives and sometimes multi-variable.

I hate that, for my structural engineering maths class I had to do stuff like impossible numbers that only apply to electrical engineering.

i forgot to make a thread for annual be mean to meteora day.

Now we wont get to find out LP's perfect idea. _{Yes I may have googled the old thread.}

Mete, your terrible memory disappoints me.

Mete, your terrible memory disappoints me.

you can't say that! be mean to meteora day was over a week ago!

Dear Mete, I am sorry if I have inadvertently hurt your feelings, in the heat of the moment I said things I deeply regret, please accept my sincerest apologies and I will wait for the next be mean to mete day in the future.