We can be incredibly productive in short, focused sessions. All you need is food, drink and focus.
All-nighters are an obligatory part of the university experience for disorganised students. For most, they're a grimacing experience. But some
thrive under pressure, producing their best work at 4am with an
impending 7am deadline.
The truth is that all-night essay crises have always been, and remain,
dreadful, lonely and humiliating.
It's midnight and the panic is
setting in. A bizarre double-think consumes your caffeinated mind. On
the one hand, the morning is freedom, when the confines of your bedroom
cease to be prison walls and you can finally sink under that soft duvet.
On
the other, the morning is doom. Somehow those 200 words on the computer
screen have to become 2,000.


