What Is Sleep, And Where Can I Get Some?
 

Working night shift is totally wreaking havoc on my internal clock. Especially when I have a boss who doesn't know how to make a schedule properly, and ends up putting me on days training someone for a shift I haven't done in forever and then putting me on nights the next day. (T_T)

Oh well. I just bought my first cell phone, so I'm hoping that he can call me when I'm out if he needs me to train for a shift I've never done or something like that.

You'll get used to it. Having worked nights for last few years (with uni during daytime) I've got used to not going to sleep till wee hours and subsiding off about 4-6 hours sleep a night. Actually getting 8 hours and at normal times is what now causes chaos on my body.

Finals are doing the same thing to me. I have a paper due in seventeen hours, and though I've already done the research it's going to take a toll in my sleep tonight. Plus, I have two major tests next Monday and I'll probably study from when I finish this stupid project 'til 4 am Wednesday.


...shows that I shouldn't be in NPF. I better get going.

Yeah, Seil, when you get to college, you'll REALLY be like "wtf". I've gone about 5 days with 2-3 hours of sleep TOTAL. I then slept for a full day (went to sleep wednesday, woke up friday).

During the weeks where I don't have midterms/finals (translation: I go to EVERY class except during midterm weeks), I survive on about 4-7 (usually about 6) hours of sleep a night. During midterm weeks, I skip morning classes, and sleep in (8-10 hours) and study till the wee hours (wee hours being till like 4 in the morning, waking up at 12 in the afternoon, etc.).

That coffee maker will REALLY pay itself off in college. Get one.

See the problem is not so much the classes or even the assignments. It's the fact that you usually have to work 20-30 hours a week outside of uni to support yourself and then you have what is nominally 40 hour weeks at uni (undergrad less so, post grad more so).

At least you don't have an insomniac roommate who stays up until 2AM, leaving you to lie awake until 3AM, and then was able to be up by at least 7AM for 8AM class. I did, and ended up retaking calc. My minimum is six hours of sleep to function the next day. If I don't have any hope of making it, it's a choice between not sleeping at all, or my body waking up a half hour to an hour after it needs to if I'm to get where I need to go on time.

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

Wait until you have children of your own. Most of you are fortunate that you are male, as you will not be required to stay up all hours of the night breastfeeding a frustrated baby who takes forever to latch, then gets bored, then cries if you try to put her down for a nap.

I was extremely fortunate last night, as I got to get three hours of sleep in a row after Samantha had a long feed and cuddled up next to me. She only seems to sleep well if she is sleeping next to me...I have no idea why.

Yeah have kids! I was going to mock you mercilessly but Lady Cygnet beat me to it!!

You can't tell me what I can't do!