The Importance of Sleep

I'll be writing an article soon to post to my site about the importance of sleep in college. Getting the right amount of sleep affects so much: your mood, your diet, your studies, and physical fitness.

I haven't been getting the right amount of sleep lately. I often go to bed an hour or more later than I should. Unfortunately, my body has trained itself to wake up at the same time every day, so I'm up around 7:30 every morning no matter what.

It's a bad habit to stay up late because it makes it harder to wake up in the morning when you need to. Also, if you keep up that habit constantly, your body adjusts to it and it becomes hard to break. So if you stay up night after night doing homework when you could have done it earlier, it becomes tough to break in a new, healthier routine.

Something I'm trying to do differently is get to bed at the right time on week nights so I'm fresh to wake up in the mornings. Then on weekends, if I want to stay up a little later on Fridays or Saturdays, it won't hurt me much.