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WindCalibur
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Canada938 Posts
May 16 2013 20:46 GMT
#21
I use coffee as an emergency energy drink that has no calories. Drinking it everyday and frequently builds tolerance, which is not good since you want the affect to be as great as possible (at least I want it to be effective).
Bojas
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands2397 Posts
May 16 2013 20:48 GMT
#22
I drink tons of coffee and still need to sleep 9-10 hours a day. It can always be worse . Also drinking coffee to stay awake until the nightly hours is pretty terrible for your health. Probably not good for your grades in the long run either.
Blisse
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada3710 Posts
May 16 2013 21:01 GMT
#23
I don't drink coffee and can get by with 4-5 hours of sleep weekdays with more rest to catch up on weekends. It's not about coffee, it's about slowly adapting your body to less and less sleep so you don't go from 9 hours of sleep to 4 hours instantly and get crushed the next day. If you can go 5-6 hours of sleep daily, 4 or 3 hours, or even an all-nighter doesn't faze you as much as it does to others.

However, honestly, I find the 8 hour sleep mark is a perfect example of how some of the actually smartest and brightest people I know of work. When you have prioritized your life and cut the stupid habits that consume time (Reddit, TeamLiquid, etc) rather than doing work, you definitely have enough time to finish everything you have to do, and also get a good night's rest. And I find that this is true for all of the genuinely smart people - no cramming, no complaining, just always working and always catching up or getting ahead, with a good bit of hard fun when they have free time.

That being said, I hate coffee, but love all those caffeinated sugar drinks like Frappucinos.
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BisuEver
Profile Joined May 2010
United States247 Posts
May 16 2013 21:03 GMT
#24
On May 17 2013 06:01 Blisse wrote:
That being said, I hate coffee, but love all those caffeinated sugar drinks like Frappucinos.

I do too but it takes so much time and I forgot how to make them.
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Emzeeshady
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
Canada4203 Posts
May 16 2013 21:04 GMT
#25
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Chocolate
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2350 Posts
May 16 2013 21:11 GMT
#26
If you simply want to have caffeine in your system then just get these at CVS. Each pill has more caffeine than you get in one cup of coffee anyway, just don't take more than you really need to prevent cardio problems. It is also cheaper to take one of these than have a cup of coffee or drink a soda/energy drink anyway, even if you make the coffee yourself or buy soda in bulk. There might be a better place to buy these but CVS is usually pretty common.

For the record, I have the same difficulty of schedule as you and I'm in the same grade. I've managed to maintain my A's by

Staying up until 2 AM if need be. This only happens if I procrastinate. Trust me, you'll feel like crap the next day but your cognitive functions aren't going to go down the toilet with just one night of little sleep unless you are not like me at all.

Doing as much homework as possible at school. This usually amounts to getting all my math and physics done in the morning and during lunch. If you have a free span of 5 minutes in a class, you can still probably knock out a lot of your homework, especially in math. Then, if I need to, I do spanish, history, english, etc. at home. If you're taking a quantitative science class like chemistry or computer science then you could also do it pretty easily at school.

If I feel distracted or really need to work on something I go to a library or somewhere away from where I normally do homework. I have a bad habit of going online while I still have homework to do, and I bet you do as well. I'm less likely to get on the internet when I'm around strangers and in an environment where I'm not totally at ease.

If you do only sleep about 4 hours or so in a night I find it's pretty easy to take a little nap the next day (or the same, heh) and then consume some sort of caffeine. It keeps me from feeling groggy and feels a lot better than a nap or caffeine alone.

You could always manage your time better, but that's too hard . I know this is the "correct" advice to give but I'd be a hypocrite for saying it. I'm sure you're not so busy that you need to spend every waking minute on homework, though, so if you can change your habits, DO IT.
Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27168 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-16 21:26:32
May 16 2013 21:25 GMT
#27
Not everyone drinks coffee, I managed to get through school without it just fine. The difference between you studying and your friends studying isn't coffee, so don't worry about it. Being natural is the best way to go.

If you want to find something else, green tea is another option. You can drink it hot or cold, and it has good stuff like catechin.
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HolyExlxF
Profile Joined March 2011
United States256 Posts
May 16 2013 22:05 GMT
#28
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randommuch
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States370 Posts
May 16 2013 22:10 GMT
#29
On May 17 2013 02:56 birdkicker wrote:
Alright so I am a junior for High school, going to be a senior in August, and I hate coffee with a passion. I hate the smell of it.The bitter taste of coffee prevents me from taking more than one sip. It worries me since pretty much everyone in the world drinks coffee and I just feel left out lol... even starbucks can't save me.

I'm particularly concerned since I feel other students have an advantage over me since they can stay up til like 4am doing homework with coffee while I have to sleep at 11pm or 12am max since I'll get naturally sleepy... So I'm wondering should I force myself to "like" coffee so I will have an easier time with school next year and when I go to college...

As an Asian I also hated Boba milk teas but I kind of "forced" myself to like it by drinking it even though it tasted like shit like a year ago... and now its one of my favorite drinks, so I feel like I might be able to force myself to drink coffee until I get accustomed to it.

So as of right now, I'm unsure what to do. I know that some people are kind of fucked by being too reliant on coffee to get themselves to wake up... but as it is right now I'm not planning to get too reliant on coffee... just want to use it to my advantage to maximize my time... I'm on average spending like 2 or 3 more hours sleeping (I usually sleep at 10) than my friends who gets straight A's. I'm not a bad student, I have roughly equal A's with B's with 3 APs, so I'm pretty sure I can achieve better grades by wasting less time sleeping, even though I know its bad for my body...



Lol,
You're a junior in High school man, relax. Go chill with some friends and stop worrying so much.



Btw, you'll find you'll end up with more free time then you'll know what to do with once you get into college.
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food." Genesis 1:29
P7GAB
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada486 Posts
May 16 2013 23:03 GMT
#30
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Carbonyl
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
United States334 Posts
May 17 2013 00:46 GMT
#31
If you study you'll do well. If you don't study, you won't do well. Coffee really has no bearing on that.
It takes quite a long time of playing and watching a video game before you realize how bad at it you really are.
Dfgj
Profile Joined May 2008
Singapore5922 Posts
May 17 2013 01:33 GMT
#32
On May 17 2013 02:56 birdkicker wrote:
Alright so I am a junior for High school

I'm particularly concerned since I feel other students have an advantage over me since they can stay up til like 4am doing homework with coffee while I have to sleep at 11pm or 12am max since I'll get naturally sleepy... .

If they're doing that in highschool they have a natural disadvantage, namely, they're either awful at schoolwork, managing time, or both.
Epishade
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States2267 Posts
May 17 2013 02:30 GMT
#33
I don't drink coffee either. I hate the taste (too bitter) but I do like the smell of other people's coffee in the morning lol. It smells a lot better than it tastes for me imo. Same goes with beer (even though I've only had a little, I don't drink alcohol).

Green Tea is my suggestion. Everyone loves Green Tea.
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endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
May 17 2013 06:25 GMT
#34
Coffee is an acquired taste like smoking. Many hate it at first, then you learn to like it, until you become completely addicted to it.

Also, do you really need to stay up until 4am to do homework in high school ?!
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Bommes
Profile Joined June 2010
Germany1226 Posts
May 17 2013 08:31 GMT
#35
Staying up until 4am in the morning to do your homework is an advantage?
MountainDewJunkie
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States10344 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-18 03:18:42
May 18 2013 03:18 GMT
#36
You get more energy from eating an apple. And it's caffeine free!

- Signed, a guy addicted to coffee
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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
June 15 2013 19:53 GMT
#37
On May 17 2013 15:25 endy wrote:
Coffee is an acquired taste like smoking. Many hate it at first, then you learn to like it, until you become completely addicted to it.


Isn't that basically how Stockholm syndrome works?
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SnipedSoul
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada2158 Posts
June 15 2013 20:12 GMT
#38
On May 17 2013 07:05 HolyExlxF wrote:
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Race is Terran
Profile Blog Joined May 2013
United States382 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-06-15 21:52:31
June 15 2013 21:51 GMT
#39
coffee is an acquired taste. Just like beer. No one likes it starting out, but it just grows on you over time


On June 16 2013 04:53 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 17 2013 15:25 endy wrote:
Coffee is an acquired taste like smoking. Many hate it at first, then you learn to like it, until you become completely addicted to it.


Isn't that basically how Stockholm syndrome works?

stockholm syndrome is when the victims of a crime, such as a bank robbery, become emotionally attacked to the robbers robbing the bank and then they start justifying the robber's actions and so don't really see the robbers as the "bad guys" in the picture anymore
[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
June 16 2013 01:57 GMT
#40
But what incentive is there to start in the first place?
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