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Burn The Midnight Oil

My first all-nighter as a college student.

Mairin Corasaniti
Nov 08, 2016
Washington College
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Burn The Midnight Oil
Kermit?

"I should not have waited.
It would have been better
to have slept and dreamed,
than to have watched night pass,
and this slow moon sink."
Lady Akazome Emon
Translated by Kenneth Rexroth

Okay, I made a mistake.

I tried writing my two papers on time, I really did. I did my research ahead of time, I planned out each paper, I mentally wrote drafts.

Yet there I was, three AM, struggling over my third page (out of five to seven required for the second paper). I wasn't ready, wasn't prepared for the 9 AM deadline, I really wasn't. My brain was fried from another paper, another problem. My eyes didn't want to stay open. My fingers couldn't move. I didn't finish until 7:18 this morning.

Honestly, it's a miracle I can write this article right now. I've been awake for about 38 hours now. That's by no means impressive, but not healthy either, that's for sure. I'm running on fumes, vitamin water, and a granola bar that promised me that it had the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee.

Burning the midnight oil isn't a good idea, kids. I've been so scared of falling asleep, at any point, at any time, all day long. It's so frightening- what if I accidentally

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