I was coming straight from high school where I was use to getting up at six-thirty in the morning and drearily making my way to school. I thought, as do many other college freshman, that it would be easy for me to make it to my nine o clock classes with the greatest of ease. What I didn t think about was that I was also use to going to bed at a reasonable hour before coming to college. T he lack of supervision and the overwhelming sense of responsibility and freedom have kept me up many a night until the likes of two in the morning almost every night. This lack of sleep or only acquiring small amounts of it can make even the most dedicated student think about which classes they could miss just for the extra hour of solemn slumber.
S kipping a class for extra sleep can start out as harmless as can be.
It s when it becomes a habit that it starts affecting your grades. I find it quite sad that my grades could drop just because I wanted an extra hour of sleep here and there. Once I stop and think about it, the extra hour of sleep is nowhere near enough worth missing out on my classes and letting my grades slip. The biggest thing I believe I ve accomplished in the first semester of my first year of college is the realization of how important a role sleep plays in my life. I have to sleep.