Apr 2026 · Vol. II · No. 66
Undeclared Major.
Ep. 52APR 23 2012

All Nighter

Comic strip: All Nighter – Undeclared Major, Ep. 52
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Discussion · 59 Comments

CarissaAPR 24 2012

For projects...the worst ones were papers...thinking, ACTUALLY THINKING (vs memorizing, copying, coloring, reading, etc) was death. I once had to write a 15 page paper for my 9th grade biology class. (then had to make a poster) I bout died. Got an A though.

BelalAPR 24 2012

Damn, a 15 page paper in 9th grade?? I never had a 15 page paper in college!

CarissaAPR 24 2012

Yeah...it was an intense class. Luckily he was just looking for length and just getting the ideas in/

LaurenAPR 24 2012

I have a 6000 word paper due Friday. The only time I have to work on it? Thursday. I find this comic exceptionally appropriate. Haha

BelalAPR 24 2012

Procrastinate on, Lauren.

trixalixAPR 24 2012

I have to say, the worst all nighter I had to pull was a painting. That was brutal because once you reach that point of exhaustion, its reflects on the painting. Then that time of full energy where you thinking its going well, but realistically you've just been painting over the same spot. Then the point of saying whatever, ill just call it abstract and just leave unfinished for sleep instead.

CarissaAPR 24 2012

What kind of paint? Because I stayed til late night in a paint studio, but it got better as I went on for the lack of people and it was oil.

BelalAPR 24 2012

Same here. When I took Drawing 1, I'd draw all my projects the night before - and even though it was mentally and physically exhausting - it was some of my best work (I think).

MattAPR 24 2012

Funny this comic came out on a night i didn't sleep x). I once stayed up all night just to fall asleep in my math class, at 8 am, front row right in front of the teacher... NEVER ever fell asleep again in college. Ahah

AshleyAPR 24 2012

My all-nighters always fail... I've never pulled a true all-nighter. I usually give up at around 4 or 5 and try to catch an hour or two of sleep. Which is what's happened twice this week. Again. Never try to write your own contracts...

BelalAPR 24 2012

I do the same... I give up easily.

AshleyAPR 25 2012

3rd attempt at an all-nighter this week... I think I'm going to start calling these things my 4-5 am nights....

JeitAPR 24 2012

that's eerie. The thoughts in my head before viewing the new comic "Oh god, I'm not getting any of this, my exam is tomorrow, I might actually fail this!" at which point I decide to look at things not quite so abysmally boring and confusing >.<

BelalAPR 24 2012

Whenever your stressed out, just head over here and read a few comics. Guaranteed to mentally stimulate your learning cell.s

ChrisAPR 24 2012

As a college student at UTC, I am currently embarking on such a task.

BelalAPR 24 2012

Chattanooga?

SaffAPR 24 2012

The only real all-nighter I ever pulled was for religious purposes, but I did come close to pulling one once. I had a final 10 page paper due for AP English back in high school and I stayed up late to finish it. My mistake? I drank a bunch of coffee, an energy drink, and ate a ton of chocolate at around 10 pm. When did it kick in? 3:30 am in the morning when I had already finished my homework. I couldn't fall asleep until 5:30 am, and then I had to wake up at 6 am to get ready for school. Really though, I never attempt to pull all-nighters anymore. I usually fall asleep at 10 or 11 pm and force myself to wake up at 4 am to study, since I know it's pointless for me.

AlejandroAPR 24 2012

I'm an IR major at AU. My sophomore year I had 2- 20 page papers a 15 page paper and a 10 page paper all due on the same day. I pulled 4 consecutive all nighters. I still have vietnam flashblacks about that semester.

BelalAPR 24 2012

Note to self: do not major in International Relations.

jamesAPR 24 2012

i find this funny because the last time i slept was Saturday night. i hate all nighters, especially multiple ones back to back

BelalAPR 24 2012

The weekend is near. Just stay up for 72 more hours.

leahAPR 24 2012

sadly i pull all nighters on a regular basis, usually about twice a week, as long as i have coffee, food and dubstep playing in the background i can usually make it through the night without falling asleep on my homework.

EvreckAPR 24 2012

I'm about to write a paper (@ 3 46 pm) for a class at 7. 6 pages, topic of my choice. Gonna be interesting, since I won't have any research for said research paper.

BelalAPR 24 2012

Tip: Open up the "Find" dialog box in Word, find all the periods, and make their font larger - it'll make your paper longer without making the size of the text larger. Win.

PeaceAPR 24 2012

worst paper I ever had to do was my sophmore year of college. It was pretty much write everything down that was on all the websites for a certain project. No page limit.... I pulled off a C+ with 92 pages

BelalAPR 24 2012

wtf...

DanMAPR 26 2012

What were the educational benefits to this "paper"?

AjaxAPR 25 2012

today is my birthday, my present to myself, taking the few minutes away from my current all nighter to read this comic. It was a good gift :) fits too perfectly.

BelalAPR 28 2012

and it didn't cost me a single thing. Perfect.

AliAPR 25 2012

I'm in the middle of an all nighter, how oddly appropriate that this should be the topic. This semester is going to end in 3 weeks? Nah. I'm pretty sure it's never going to end.

LyreAPR 25 2012

All nighters that I pull are usually for my accounting/finance and math classes. Although there was this one time I had a test for accounting, math and history all on the same time and back to back to back, and I had no time to review in the morning. Never really slept from 9pm the previous day to 11pm the following day. Slept like a baby afterwards :D

EmilyAPR 25 2012

Haha I did that last night to study for an exam. Guess who wound up missing said exam? -.- Other than taking naps/crashing for a few hours here and here, I haven't slept all week. I am never taking 17 credits again. Although honestly, what did me in probably was the research paper I had to write on rape...

BelalAPR 28 2012

I took 18 once... I surprisingly did pretty pretty well. I had to since my first couple semesters I never took more then 13.

RandallAPR 26 2012

Currently 5:16 in my all-nighter for my calc test...I've pulled so many all-nighters, my body is used to it now. Never take above 16 hours. And NEVER major in Math (unless u wanna teach it)

BelalAPR 28 2012

Math major IN DA HOUSE.

DanMAPR 26 2012

Worst week of my life: 3 all-nighters back-to-back-to-back. I went without a wink of sleep for almost 80 hours. I was trying to read my textbook for a class on the third day when all I could see were purple dots blinking all over the page. I knew at this point I had no choice but to sleep...even if it was 3 PM. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another terrible story I have is an all-nighter pulled one night by me and my lab partner. We had an electronics lab due the next day, so we had to finish it. Our teacher never gave us labs that were possible to finish within the 3 hour lab time set every week, so having labs that took 5 hours every week was not uncommon. My partner and I spent the entire night working on it. We finally finished and had our prof look at the results. He told us something was wrong, and when he checked our circuit...one of the components was broken. Almost 15 hours of work...for nothing.

BelalAPR 28 2012

i HATE HATE HATE labs. I always seem to be lost while everybody else seems to know exactly what they're doing.

DanMAPR 30 2012

Sabotage always kept the labs entertaining for me :)

LaurenAPR 28 2012

Yikes! My vision starts going blue after about between 36 and 48 hours without sleep. I can't imagine what would happen if I tried to go for that long!

SamanthaAPR 26 2012

Never wait until the night before to write your 25 page psych paper

AshleyAPR 26 2012

Sounds like a self-served death sentence....

BelalAPR 26 2012

Sound advice.

DanCAPR 26 2012

Hey, I found your comics on accident and pretty much every comic is spot on. It's described my experience living at a new Uni thus far, way to be a bad ass man.

BelalAPR 26 2012

Thank you, I am a bad ass.

ChrisAPR 26 2012

For me, I attempt 10 min breaks when I'm doing an all-nighter and wake up the next morning after accidentally randomly passing out with that same "aww crap" feeling.

LauraAPR 26 2012

Last semester, I had 2 art classes that I pulled 2 all-nighters in a row for. Then my roommates kicked me out so I had to stay awake for another night speed-packing. Altogether, I think I was up for about 40 hours straight. @_@

BelalAPR 28 2012

Why'd you get kicked out?

LauraAPR 28 2012

I'm an art major, and 2 of my roommates were REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEALLY OCD. >.>

iellswoAPR 26 2012

Hm... looks like my post got deleted from earlier, that's weird. Anyways, as a CS major I've had to pull an all nighter from time to time to finish up coding a project, it's not much fun, and you are dead the morning after. I'm just glad to get them done and passed off, at which point I usually head back home to pass out. My usual all-nighter mix consists of Amp followed by a litre of Dr. Pepper.

BelalAPR 28 2012

Dr Pepper is the best of all the sodas.

JoshAPR 26 2012

I have a ten page paper due tomorrow that I haven't started.

BelalAPR 28 2012

Is it double spaced? If it is, then youre already half way done!

JoshMAY 8 2012

Haha yea it was double spaced, that's a good way to think about it. Guess I can procrastinate more.

LauraAPR 27 2012

This semester alone I have pulled 10 all nighters due to my poor planning skills aided by unfortunately timed seizures. Luckily I am done on Monday.

BelalAPR 28 2012

Damn those poor planning skills.

JonAPR 28 2012

Hehe, pulled one of these a few days ago, stayed up until 5:30 in the morning doing an exceptionally long circuits assignment (ended up being 18 pages of tricky Fourier series/transfer function problems, involving tons of integration by parts and trig. subs) Started at 6pm, felt like crap by 11 pm, but then felt surprisingly awesome by 3 am :P Ended up doing really well on the test, so I guess it was worth it.

iellswoAPR 29 2012

Integration by parts isn't too bad, but I hate trig sub with a fiery passion.

BecksAPR 30 2012

I just read through all of your comics and wish there was more. I'm supposed to be planning out a 10 minute speech, writing and paper, and studying for my big math test tomorrow evening, but nahh, I'll just read webcomics instead. Oh, and your comics are great and really hit close to home for me. haha

BelalMAY 1 2012

Another students grades successfully lowered by my comics... mission accomplished.