[3680] in Central_America
Re: New quotes for Mon Oct 7
rlk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rlk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Oct 7 10:24:03 1991
I never pulled an all-nighter at MIT. In my last two years, I rarely worked
past 2300, and never past midnight, and I always ate dinner sometime around
1800. Those were the years I averaged 4.8
I really believe that a lot of people at MIT overwork -- some people, at least,
treat all-nighters as a badge of merit. I can understand working long hours
on a project, where frequently a lot of work needs to be done, but peak
performance isn't required (although I find when I try to debug something
when I'm exhausted I not infrequently make a serious mistake that causes
real damage to whatever I'm working on at the time). However, pulling an
all-nighter to prepare for a test seems a mistake, particularly if the test
is in the morning, since tests require peak output for a moderate period of
time, and exhaustion makes this impossible. I preferred to take tests with
large gaps in my knowledge of the material than to have tried to cram everything
in but to be so tired that I couldn't think straight.
