You could say I’ve worked nights if homework counts… This past year, there have been several nights during which I did homework from 4 pm to 4 am and got up at 6:30 (sometimes multiple nights in a row), plus a couple all-nighters.
I wouldn’t say homework counts. What high school gives 12 hours worth of homework?
I’m in a program that involves a much heavier workload than average. That, combined with the fact that I am an extremem perfectionist (and didn’t manage my time as well as I could have earlier in the year), equals tons of time doing homework.
I’ve been told that first year university is significantly easier than grade 11 in this program. I’ve already done a university-level research project in biology, plus a couple fairly long essays (3000 and 2000 words) in social/history. I’ve got a 4000-word one coming up next year too that I should probably research a bit before school starts. It’s nohing I can’t handle, but when I’ve got two or three projects like that to do at once, on top of work and stuff, life sucks.
But it’s mostly my perfectionism that makes things take so long, compounded with the fact that I get stuck in a perpetual cycle of sleep deprivation leading to homework taking longer leading to more sleep deprivation…