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" You know what&amp;#039;s a bad idea? Going out the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights before finals week!!  They were good ideas at the time; I had a lot of fun in my escapades at the loads of parties this weekend, but the consequence of having to pull an all-nighter was NOT.  As finals approach, it seems like more and more parties are piled on top of the few nights we have left here before summer. Naturally, procrastination sets in as temptation rises to go out and &amp;quot;just one more time&amp;quot; nights of fun. Thursday night, my roommate and I went out with a bunch of people to a house party, which wasn&amp;#039;t spectacular but definitely an excuse for me to chill out instead of writing a ten-page paper on political theory.  Friday night, I got together with my long-time best friend, Alexandra, who is Puerto-Rican, and her new friend from Sri Lanka! We were dubbed &amp;quot;triple threat&amp;quot; at dance party when we decided to do some coordinated moves. It was a ton of fun, but the political theory paper was still looming.  Saturday night, my roommate and I went out again to celebrate my friend&amp;#039;s birthday at a frat house. The frat was holding a themed social called, &amp;quot;Bourbon Street,&amp;quot; and the many rooms were decorated with various Bourbon Street-related material and colorful lights lined the narrow hallways. Again, fun and laughter was the primary concern, but my paper wasn&amp;#039;t writing itself.  As a result, Sunday night at 9:30PM, I decided to finally sit down and churn out this paper. It&amp;#039;s 60% of my grade for my senior seminar political science class, so obviously it&amp;#039;s to do or die on this paper. (Die aka failure, literally an F). However, I think that the art of procrastination if gauging how much time you need to the minute to finish a project. The paper was due today, Monday, at 4:30PM in the political science main office. I ran in at 4:28PM to throw the paper into the basket! I stayed up all night, from 9:30PM Sunday night to 4:28PM Monday afternoon, writing, thinking, breathing this paper. Even though I could&amp;#039;ve spread out the 16 hours it took for me to write this paper over the course of a week, or even a couple of days, I made the choice to party it up instead beforehand... which I&amp;#039;m not sure was the right choice or not.  In the end, I had to pay for those prior nights of fun with 16 hours of continuous high-intensity concentration, stress and critical reasoning that clearly took a toll on my body (and brain cells!). I have a Macroeconomics final this coming Wednesday, so I can&amp;#039;t take too much time to rejuvenate, but I&amp;#039;m definitely not going out in the interim! How has going out instead of studying affected your grades? Do you have any all-nighter stories, and how did it make you feel afterwards? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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