Outside of my Freshmen year of college, I only had a couple of classes that ever had tests. For the classes that did have tests, I would just take extensive notes every day of class. Outside of taking the notes in class, i really didn't study that much. Generally I would sit down and skim through my extensive notes the night before for an hour at most. All looking at the notes does is sort of give that information a spacial location in my mind. If I end up stumped on a question, I can just try to visualize where that information would be located in my notebook within my head and generally pinpoint the answer.

I generally just had big projects for my classes though. I would try to get as many of those things done ahead of time when I could, but I've had to pull about three all nighters this last school year. Two of those days I had about 50 pages to type up in one day (with a good bit of blank space on about half those pages). The last all nighter I pulled before graduation, I typed up 120 pages in one day, and every page was full. Miserable.