http://www.policymic.com/articles/87653/here-s-a-surprising-look-at-what-sleep-deprivation-does-to-your-body
If you're a college student and you read this article and you are not two-hundred and fifty-two percent terrified by it, then you're doing college wrong.
I'm sitting here at four AM on a Monday morning, hastily pulling together all of my assignments that were neglected all weekend. Truly there is no worse time to be a college kid than on a Sunday night. Everything's happening all at once, and my chronic procrastination habits have almost caught up to me. This is one of the six or so all-nighters that I have pulled this semester. I wouldn't even say that it's been an awful semester. Just kind of an average one.
Then I find this nerve-rattling article. I wouldn't say I suffer from chronic sleep depravation. I enjoy the actual act of sleeping too much. I generally get somewhere between seven and ten hours on a school night. On the weekends, I prefer not to set an alarm and just sleep until I wake up. That generally results in anywhere between twelve and fifteen hours, depending on how trying a week I'm coming off of.
I focused more on the "What one night of sleep deprivation will do to you," which, once again, was a stupid thing to do at four AM on a Monday. I'm sitting here doing everything I can to come off like a polished, put-together student (through my work, at least- my appearance is a battle for another day.) And while I'm doing that, I'm becoming more emotional (go figure), losing brain tissue (like I have much to spare) and increasing my risk of seriously injuring myself in a car accident. Why would I want to do that? Why would ANYONE deliberate choose (because ultimately that's what I did- I have no one to blame but myself for this stupid situation that I'm in) to do this to themselves?
Finals are rapidly approaching, and after reading this article, I will seriously reconsider my habitual decision to put everything off and stay up all night trying to recover it before I fumble miserably. It literally helps nothing. Not my social life, not my health, not my eating habits, my stress levels- nothing. My health has never been a primary concern of mine, but this article was enough to scare me into re-organizing my priorities.
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