Are all-nighters for naught?
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- December
- 14
It’s 2 a.m. and your bed is looking awfully inviting. You have, after all, been cramming for that dreaded biochemistry/greek philosophy/art of walking midterm for hours and now it’s time to shutter the books and catch some shut-eye, right?
Well, actually, yes.
A new study of students at a small New York liberal arts has found that, on average, those who don’t pull all-nighters have higher GPAs than their bleary-eyed peers.
“It’s not a big difference, but it’s pretty striking,” said a researcher quoted in this Associated Press story. “I am primarily a sleep researcher and I know nobody thinks clearly at 4 in the morning. You think you do, but you can’t.”
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on Friday, December 14th, 2007 at 4:09 pm by Alice Gomstyn.
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Well, this just means that 1/2 of my college experience was for naught! But seriously this makes perfect sense. All nighters are for the procrastinators, not for those who have good study skills and therefore better grades.
Well this is a no-brainer. People with degrees in fields that start with neuro- have long speculated (known) that sleep helps you memorize things you encountered while awake.
I wonder if Ms. Gomstyn draws from her own college experience ï?Å It seems that today’s college kids have a different biological clock: they sleep as late as possible in the morning, stay up as late as possible at night and then when they come home for a school break the kids sleep when their parents are up and are awake when the parents are asleep. No wonder those two generations have problems finding common language ï?Å