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Studying on SPeed? Serious Question

Yep yep, I had it figured out, I did some meth to get my work done. I was in the hospital with food poisoning about 2 weeks before- I had missed quite a bit of work.
I tweaked for a week straight to make up the work I missed, went through almost 2 grams in a week, which is a lot for someone who had never beinged on it before. I had to do a few things, like a research paper, a personal narritive, paint a 11 x 17 picture (of anything), and a final art project of my choice-that was graded based upon the effort I put into it. Well, thankfully I did my subjective assignments early in the week, because I work 10-hour days, I didn't have time during the day to do the projects- do I did them at night, and I tweaked.
I started off by not using that much- but I just wanted more. For no real reason I can remember, I just wanted more.. and I remember watching those cheesy-ass infomercials at 6:30-8am then going to class.. and thinking it was the coolest feeling. Well, on friday, I had everything done, I hadn't slept in 6 days, I wrote a 62 page photo-essay, painted a shitty looking 'moon' (my brush strokes were all over the place, my hands were shaking constantly), and totally fucking up my final speech. I was sweating, and shaking profusly during my entire speech, I had a video prepared, but it turns out, I fucked up the video when I was queing it, I hit record, instead of rewind- I had a speech about computers, and my video was about a bunch of fat women in tight clothing, exercising.. I immeditatly ended the speech.
When I got home, i re-read my photo essay.. my words made ABSOLUTLY NO SENSE.. I rambled on and on and when from one topic to another.. for 62 pages... To this day, I still have been to lazy to find out what grade I got... I haven't even gone back to the school to get my grades. So yeah.. meth didn't work for me.
 
^^^ Man... that is an outright horror story!
For me, studying on meth is unpredictable. Mostly I am able to see "the larger picture" of a topic, sometimes I can memorize huge volumes of information almost photographically. BUT, there are some drawbacks and hints. My personal experiences with studying on meth [skydancer, 2002]:
  • If your conscience is clean and you really only want to study, do not snort it. Snorting will give a short burst of energy that can make you too hyper.
  • Try to sleep at least three hours, or more if you have the luxury. If you take less sleep, you can stay awake using meth, but you will not be as focused and your motivation and creativity will weaken.
  • Do not ever have a comedown while you have to perform. If this means that you will have to save your last bit for the morning of the exam, DO separate it and stash it somewhere so that you will not be easily tempted to waste it.
  • Meth can be detrimental of details. When on meth you criticize things more easily and may dismiss certain parts of the assignment as irrelevant or non-interesting. It is easy to see the picture at large, but most courses require you to be fairly well-informed about minor details too.
  • There is a difference between thinking you know a topic and actually knowing the topic. Do not fall into this trap - on meth this is sometimes harder to diagnose as you might feel overconfident after a few successes.
  • Meth is more doing than thinking. It is more suitable for learning step-by-step through examples, rather than by reading lengthy theory. Small "knowledge bites" in exercise form give hands on experience which is more easy to recall.
This may ofcourse not apply to you. :D
 
limz--
First of all, read my posts in here, and read skydancer's also (he emphasizes many of my points).
Second, I think you did too much. No you cannot be "high" and study productively (or at least most people can't). You do not want to do so much that you find it euphoric, and you definitely don't want to be upping the dosage like you described. Use meth very sparingly -- to keep you up and stimulate you, but not enough to be fun.
 
I don't think I could ever study on meth. I would get *way* too bored and antsy. Of course I usually smoke it, with a few line lines mixed in for variety. I can talk for hours, orplay video games, but I could never sit down and focus on a book or a computer screen.
 
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