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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: EMAWmeister on December 13, 2011, 02:33:10 AM
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Good Idea? Bad Idea? Effective? :dunno:
Some people swear by them. Others like sleeping or something.
Thoughts?
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They never work for me because I always end up hitting a threshold around 5 am where I can't write anything down except to bbs. My brain turns to mush.
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it's the only way to go. also adderall.
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The only all-nighter I ever pulled resulted in a 98% on Krishna Akkina's Managerial Econ final. :gocho:
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couldn't sleep after gonzaga win last year, had tickets to Duke game, was terrified of being without sleep for that long, but it worked out
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it's the only way to go. also adderall.
This. Been putting off pesky chores? Not anymore!
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Only done it once for school to finish a paper, for tests I'd definitely rather get at least some sleep. Being too tired to focus seems worse than not knowing the material very well. Adderall and other substances make me feel really strung out after about 40 hours of no sleep.
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Love all nighters. A couple times though I thought "maybe I'll just take an hour nap, wake up and study more" but then I'd wake up after an hour and think "screw this, sleep feels good". Don't take an hour nap.
Also, when I saw the title of this thread, there was no doubt in my mind that EMAWmeister started it. What a crazy cat.
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goEMAW makes it really hard to write papers, most of mine were due Monday and Tuesday of the razorback invasion.
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For writing a paper? Yes.
For studying for a test? No.
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I can't think of any situation other than a Vegas bender when All Nighters are a good idea.
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I always get a sore throat if I stay up all night.
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I always get a sore throat if I stay up all night.
:horrorsurprise:
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They are never a good idea if school related. If you are studying for a test, go to bed an hour earlier than usual. If you are writing a paper, start the paper a day earlier than you usually do and there will never be a need for the all nighter. All nighters are great if you are partying your ass off, though.
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Love all nighters. A couple times though I thought "maybe I'll just take an hour nap, wake up and study more" but then I'd wake up after an hour and think "screw this, sleep feels good". Don't take an hour nap.
Also, when I saw the title of this thread, there was no doubt in my mind that EMAWmeister started it. What a crazy cat.
:emawkid:
Believe it or not, last night was my first one ever. Had a 7:30 ABO final and nothing else until friday, so I popped a vyvanse at 2:15 and hit the books! :excited:
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Love all nighters. A couple times though I thought "maybe I'll just take an hour nap, wake up and study more" but then I'd wake up after an hour and think "screw this, sleep feels good". Don't take an hour nap.
Also, when I saw the title of this thread, there was no doubt in my mind that EMAWmeister started it. What a crazy cat.
:emawkid:
Believe it or not, last night was my first one ever. Had a 7:30 ABO final and nothing else until friday, so I popped a vyvanse at 2:15 and hit the books! :excited:
How did you do?
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once i didn't sleep for 3 days during a finals week. aced all my tests and a term paper. came home and slept after my last final. got up 12 hours later to celebrate.
my term paper was on aquinas' transcendentals. :lol:
all nighters are a great idea.
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it's the only way to go. also adderall.
This. sd and I are also probably the most successful professionals on here so ignore other loser posts that contradict us.
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Love all nighters. A couple times though I thought "maybe I'll just take an hour nap, wake up and study more" but then I'd wake up after an hour and think "screw this, sleep feels good". Don't take an hour nap.
Also, when I saw the title of this thread, there was no doubt in my mind that EMAWmeister started it. What a crazy cat.
:emawkid:
Believe it or not, last night was my first one ever. Had a 7:30 ABO final and nothing else until friday, so I popped a vyvanse at 2:15 and hit the books! :excited:
How did you do?
Won't know until friday. Have an 80.12 in the class, so will take anything above an 80.
The TA is also EMAW is eff. She names all the test forms after player and stuff.
Today was 'Cotton' and 'Bowl'.
I got Cotton! :ksu:
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Love all nighters. A couple times though I thought "maybe I'll just take an hour nap, wake up and study more" but then I'd wake up after an hour and think "screw this, sleep feels good". Don't take an hour nap.
Also, when I saw the title of this thread, there was no doubt in my mind that EMAWmeister started it. What a crazy cat.
:emawkid:
Believe it or not, last night was my first one ever. Had a 7:30 ABO final and nothing else until friday, so I popped a vyvanse at 2:15 and hit the books! :excited:
Tried vyvanse (60mg) for the first time a week ago. Seems like it lasts much longer than Adderall XR but not as effective.
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oh man, used to pull all nighters pretty much every semester (thank you aderall).
of course, my grades weren't that great and i'm terrible at time management. :dunno:
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People who pull all nighters are just awful at time management.
Having said that, I've pulled a few in my time. You gotta do what you gotta do.
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People who pull all nighters are just awful at time management.
true except the exact opposite.
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I never bothered with all nighters. If I wasn't well-enough prepared by the time I got tired, then I wasn't going to bother. Just go to sleep and enjoy it.
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I never bothered with all nighters. If I wasn't well-enough prepared by the time I got tired, then I wasn't going to bother. Just go to sleep and enjoy it.
I'm willing to bet you'd feel differently if you had taken an adderall.
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People who pull all nighters are just awful at time management.
true except the exact opposite.
I should have qualified that statement. Generally people who pull all nighters are terrible at time management.
If you prepare a reasonable amount in advance, there is no reason to have to stay up all night.
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time spent preparing in advance is a waste when you can just get it all done the night before.
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I do not like this thread.
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When I was in school, most of the people talking about how they "pulled an all nighter" the night before the test were the same people taking that same class the next semester.
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When I was in school, most of the people talking about how they "pulled an all nighter" the night before the test were the same people taking that same class the next semester.
Fact: I know very few good students who pull frequent all-nighters.
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When I was in school, most of the people talking about how they "pulled an all nighter" the night before the test were the same people taking that same class the next semester.
Fact: I know very few good students who pull frequent all-nighters.
I think there are plenty of times that there's a perfect storm. 2 papers, a project, and a test over the span of 2 days. As a self-proclaimed good student, I would end up pulling all nighters once or twice a year because of something like this.
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When I was in school, most of the people talking about how they "pulled an all nighter" the night before the test were the same people taking that same class the next semester.
Fact: I know very few good students who pull frequent all-nighters.
I think there are plenty of times that there's a perfect storm. 2 papers, a project, and a test over the span of 2 days. As a self-proclaimed good student, I would end up pulling all nighters once or twice a year because of something like this.
I'm the same way. BUT most of the time, my necessity to pull an all nighter stemmed directly from my poor time management (In your case, it would have been akin to putting off the papers and projects and whatnot).
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it's an awful idea.
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Here we go.... :facepalm:
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When I was in school, most of the people talking about how they "pulled an all nighter" the night before the test were the same people taking that same class the next semester.
Fact: I know very few good students who pull frequent all-nighters.
I think there are plenty of times that there's a perfect storm. 2 papers, a project, and a test over the span of 2 days. As a self-proclaimed good student, I would end up pulling all nighters once or twice a year because of something like this.
I'm the same way. BUT most of the time, my necessity to pull an all nighter stemmed directly from my poor time management (In your case, it would have been akin to putting off the papers and projects and whatnot).
About half the time, yes. The other half was mostly due to my work schedule being terrible that week as well.
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When I was in school, most of the people talking about how they "pulled an all nighter" the night before the test were the same people taking that same class the next semester.
Fact: I know very few good students who pull frequent all-nighters.
I think there are plenty of times that there's a perfect storm. 2 papers, a project, and a test over the span of 2 days. As a self-proclaimed good student, I would end up pulling all nighters once or twice a year because of something like this.
I'm the same way. BUT most of the time, my necessity to pull an all nighter stemmed directly from my poor time management (In your case, it would have been akin to putting off the papers and projects and whatnot).
About half the time, yes. The other half was mostly due to my work schedule being terrible that week as well.
I've had some late nights and early mornings over the last couple weeks, but that's only because I didn't start the projects and paper I knew about in early October until the end of Thanksgiving. I still managed to avoid any actual all-nighters. My work schedule is pretty flexible though.
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Love all nighters. A couple times though I thought "maybe I'll just take an hour nap, wake up and study more" but then I'd wake up after an hour and think "screw this, sleep feels good". Don't take an hour nap.
Also, when I saw the title of this thread, there was no doubt in my mind that EMAWmeister started it. What a crazy cat.
:emawkid:
Believe it or not, last night was my first one ever. Had a 7:30 ABO final and nothing else until friday, so I popped a vyvanse at 2:15 and hit the books! :excited:
How did you do?
Won't know until friday. Have an 80.12 in the class, so will take anything above an 80.
The TA is also EMAW is eff. She names all the test forms after player and stuff.
Today was 'Cotton' and 'Bowl'.
I got Cotton! :ksu:
HOLY eff, ME TOO!!
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I told myself I'd study til 3 and go to bed. Three sleepless hours of lying awake later, I think I'm just gonna push through until 8:30.
Goddammit, this is frustrating.
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I told myself I'd study til 3 and go to bed. Three sleepless hours of lying awake later, I think I'm just gonna push through until 8:30.
Goddammit, this is frustrating.
I routinely pulled all nighters during undergrad and law school. I got great grades. Definitely the way to go IMO. It also helps to be really smart and not prone to panic under pressure.
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the smart and no panic things are the key. some people just suck ass at studying. you know what else always weirded me out? study groups. what the eff is the point of getting together with other people to study? just more distraction.
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the smart and no panic things are the key. some people just suck ass at studying. you know what else always weirded me out? study groups. what the eff is the point of getting together with other people to study? just more distraction.
well, when you don't go to class cause you were up all night paking...study groups and other peoples' lecture notes were the only that got me through grad school.
All nighters are good for things that have a due date, not tests IMO.
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the smart and no panic things are the key. some people just suck ass at studying. you know what else always weirded me out? study groups. what the eff is the point of getting together with other people to study? just more distraction.
Agreed with the study groups. I was always smarter than whatever group anyone could put together. It always became an impromptu tutoring session with me dropping knowledge and not studying.
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I was a terrible studier. Seriously probably never put together more than 2 or 3 hours of studying for a single test through undergrad and grad school. Thankfully I'm an awesome test taker.
the smart and no panic things are the key. some people just suck ass at studying. you know what else always weirded me out? study groups. what the eff is the point of getting together with other people to study? just more distraction.
well, when you don't go to class cause you were up all night paking...study groups and other peoples' lecture notes were the only that got me through grad school.
All nighters are good for things that have a due date, not tests IMO.
The bolded items are 100% true.
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All nighters are great for paper writing. They are also good as refreshers. Most people who do all nighters to actually learn the material usually do poorly imo.
I'm always nervous no matter how much I really know the material, so I end up pulling quasi all-nighters often.
My grades usually look like mountain ranges. It also helps that I'm old and pretty boring compared to your avg. student.
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pull all nighters all the time... but not to study or get work done. have to do it once a week or so to keep my sleep schedule in a reasonable place.
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All nighters are dumb. You are always less productive and less likely to retain information when you are running on fumes than you would be with at least a little bit of sleep.
If you're tired then you should just got to sleep and get about 4 hours then wake up at an insanely early time and hit the books. First hand knowledge that was the philosophy of our national championship debate team and well... ahem... they won a national championship.
An ABO exam would be no different. Go to sleep next time.
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The ABO exam was like, 3 semesters ago, DC.
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:love: It worked yesterday. time will tell for today
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there are people at my office that will do study groups and even have conference calls set up to study together with other people in other office for licensing exams and crap. it boggles my mind. how the hell does that help you? read the entire exam book the day before the test like an adult you freaks.
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there are people at my office that will do study groups and even have conference calls set up to study together with other people in other office for licensing exams and crap. it boggles my mind. how the hell does that help you? read the entire exam book the day before the test like an adult you freaks.
I've had some people that wanted to study with me before. They wanted us to "quiz each other." I said yeah or we could just quiz ourselves silently in our brains like grown ups.
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I used to always try and get cute girls to study with me. They never wanted to. :(
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there are people at my office that will do study groups and even have conference calls set up to study together with other people in other office for licensing exams and crap. it boggles my mind. how the hell does that help you? read the entire exam book the day before the test like an adult you freaks.
I've had some people that wanted to study with me before. They wanted us to "quiz each other." I said yeah or we could just quiz ourselves silently in our brains like grown ups.
Study groups are a hallmark of stupid people. Nobody that is an intellectual elite has anything to do with them.
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there are people at my office that will do study groups and even have conference calls set up to study together with other people in other office for licensing exams and crap. it boggles my mind. how the hell does that help you? read the entire exam book the day before the test like an adult you freaks.
I've had some people that wanted to study with me before. They wanted us to "quiz each other." I said yeah or we could just quiz ourselves silently in our brains like grown ups.
Study groups are a hallmark of stupid people. Nobody that is an intellectual elite has anything to do with them.
I agree. You know what I don't need when I'm studying? Other people. GMAFB.
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Back in med school, I would do experiments like experiencing clinical death for 1 minute and then having my study group bring me back. I would always say things like "Today is a good day to die."
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there are people at my office that will do study groups and even have conference calls set up to study together with other people in other office for licensing exams and crap. it boggles my mind. how the hell does that help you? read the entire exam book the day before the test like an adult you freaks.
I've had some people that wanted to study with me before. They wanted us to "quiz each other." I said yeah or we could just quiz ourselves silently in our brains like grown ups.
Study groups are a hallmark of stupid people. Nobody that is an intellectual elite has anything to do with them.
I agree. You know what I don't need when I'm studying? Other people. GMAFB.
Agree. Was in the library on monday night getting ready for some tests when a guy comes up to me. He was from one of my classes and invited me over to their study group. It was miserable. I left as soon as possible.
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Study groups only work if you absolutely hate the people you are with and are actually motivated to get something done so that you can get the eff out of there.
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Study groups only work if you absolutely hate the people you are with and are actually motivated to get something done so that you can get the eff out of there.
Similar to group projects. My method was split everything up evenly then put the smartest person in charge of putting it together so it makes sense and also he fixes the Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) person's section.
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getting pretty OT here but another thing I absolutely hate is role playing.
some bad person: ok, I'm going to pretend like I'm so and so and you ask me questions or whatever.
me: nope
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getting pretty OT here but another thing I absolutely hate is role playing.
some bad person: ok, I'm going to pretend like I'm so and so and you ask me questions or whatever.
me: nope
Sounds terrible. Glad I never had to deal with these idiots
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also OT but, like, at company wide events where you have to be active and do childish bullshit to team build or learn crap. like, here is this puzzle that your table has to put together to learn the new six sigma stuff then you each take a position around the table and tell the room what your role in the process is or whatever and then you each get a snack from the snack table!
OR HOW ABOUT I JUST READ ABOUT IT YOU FUCKWAD!
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getting pretty OT here but another thing I absolutely hate is role playing.
some bad person: ok, I'm going to pretend like I'm so and so and you ask me questions or whatever.
me: nope
Seriously? You don't love it when some complete idiot has to role play. To me, that makes it worth it.
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getting pretty OT here but another thing I absolutely hate is role playing.
some bad person: ok, I'm going to pretend like I'm so and so and you ask me questions or whatever.
me: nope
Our dumbass ex military program managers would do "red teaming" ahead of every recompete. We just used it as an excuse to unload about every stupid thing they ever did.
PM: We're really optimistic this new tool will blah blah
Me/RT: It sounds like you're overly focused on work hours instead of work performance and like maybe you aren't keeping the coffee machine properly stocked.
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also OT but, like, at company wide events where you have to be active and do childish bullshit to team build or learn crap. like, here is this puzzle that your table has to put together to learn the new six sigma stuff then you each take a position around the table and tell the room what your role in the process is or whatever and then you each get a snack from the snack table!
OR HOW ABOUT I JUST READ ABOUT IT YOU FUCKWAD!
Glad I work at a place that offers a retreat for teambuilding. I think when you have people that do that, they know how completely stupid it is.
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"tell everyone something interesting about yourself, and something interesting you learned about someone else!"
I rough ridin' hate that crap.
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there are times when study groups could be beneficial.
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there are times when study groups could be beneficial.
list them
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I loved having study groups, but then again, I usually learned the material on my own time before the group met. The study group was just a convenient way to reinforce that learning and then head to the bars.
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there are times when study groups could be beneficial.
list them
1. when you didnt go to class and dont have the notes where the teacher said exactly what would be on the test but other people do.
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there are times when study groups could be beneficial.
list them
1. when you didnt go to class and dont have the notes where the teacher said exactly what would be on the test but other people do.
hmmm....acceptable I guess. would suggest just asking for their notes to copy but if that's how you want to get them SO BE IT!
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there are times when study groups could be beneficial.
list them
1. when you didnt go to class and dont have the notes where the teacher said exactly what would be on the test but other people do.
hmmm....acceptable I guess. would suggest just asking for their notes to copy but if that's how you want to get them SO BE IT!
2. you have a crush on a cutie who likes study groups are you are grasping for any opportunity to interact with him/her.
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there are times when study groups could be beneficial.
list them
1. when you didnt go to class and dont have the notes where the teacher said exactly what would be on the test but other people do.
hmmm....acceptable I guess. would suggest just asking for their notes to copy but if that's how you want to get them SO BE IT!
2. you have a crush on a cutie who likes study groups are you are grasping for any opportunity to interact with him/her.
take it to the dating thread romeo. UNACCEPTABLE!
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:love: It worked yesterday. time will tell for today
Getting back OnT, pulled allnighters on consecutive days this week with a two hour nap between the two. I was so nervous about finals i couldn't sleep if i tried anyway. The one test I've gotten back so far seemed to have been successful.
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Maybe :dunno:
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Maybe :dunno:
At least when you're calling me when I'm 35 to ask if I want my 4 year old daughter to have premium life insurance I won't be able to point to your poor study habits in college?
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Maybe :dunno:
At least when you're calling me when I'm 35 to ask if I want my 4 year old daughter to have premium life insurance I won't be able to point to your poor study habits in college?
:thumbsup:
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Maybe :dunno:
At least when you're calling me when I'm 35 to ask if I want my 4 year old daughter to have premium life insurance I won't be able to point to your poor study habits in college?
:thumbsup:
:lol: :lol: :lol: at you married with children
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there are times when study groups could be beneficial.
list them
different points of view on the same subject matter for essay tests
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Maybe :dunno:
At least when you're calling me when I'm 35 to ask if I want my 4 year old daughter to have premium life insurance I won't be able to point to your poor study habits in college?
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:lol: :lol: :lol: at you married with children
I don't see anything in there about being married. Maybe you should stay up all night tonight learning to read :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Looks like everyone's favorite engineer, KKK, just ran over 'Meister with the Truth Train.
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