Sleep Deprivation
As almost all college students at Georgia Tech know, sleep is hard to get. With homework intensive classes, sports games to watch on weekends, and plenty of social events to attend, there is simply not enough time to get the amount of sleep that we need. Sleep deprivation causes major problems for college students and their education at both Georgia Tech and other universities.
Getting less than six or seven hours of sleep does many things to your body and brain besides just feeling tired. Gemma Watson says in her article that lack of sleep often leads to an overload of work and eventually a stressed out college student. When students are sleep deprived they even have trouble solving simple problems of life, and can even get intense mood swings during this time (thoughts of violence or extreme anger). Another interesting fact is that sleep deprived people’s metabolic rates actually slow down and can cause an unhealthy lifestyle.
Obviously sleep is an important thing to have in college if you want to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but how can the average college student find time to sleep with so much work to do? The answer is different for everyone, but dropping hours of class or trying to schedule your daily tasks can help you find more time to sleep every day. Having naps between classes is fine and it can help you achieve the higher grades and learn the material that you went to college for. The suggested amount of sleep for early adults is at or above eight hours a day. If you limit yourself to less than six hours a day, oversleeping classes and failure to succeed in classes will haunt you for the entire semester. Sleeping is our friend, and it needs to be taken advantage of if we want to succeed in college.
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