Originally posted by Pauline McNamara:
Excellent points Johannes. I'd like to take up your mention of fixing bugs at 3AM.
Something that helps me a lot, but that I don't always manage to do, is to try and give up after a reasonable hour in the evening!
My tendency is to attack a nitpicked assignment as soon as I get it, which is usually at home after a full work day. It's so much fun to try to figure it out that I just keep at it... but when I get tired I get stupid, period.
Those times when I stay up too long and insist on sending in an attempt in spite of fatigue usually result in a bunch of silly spacing and / or logic errors. Arrgh.
I'm trying to maintain better "study habits", juggling various activities remain a challenge.
How do the rest of you do it?
This is something I also struggle with. I am not an "early bird" type of person. Even when my body gets up early, my mind tends to be "hazy" until around 10 am or so. Then I get my second breath around 8 pm and just keep on going. I am getting better, though, about making myself go to bed earlier if I know I have to be up early in the morning. But I still have days where I'm up until midnight even though I know I have to get up again at 4.
I am involved in several other activities besides JavaRanch, and sometimes I overcommit. I'm still learning.