The Lack Thereof

Good morning! It's about 2am now, and I know what you're thinking: that's nothing. That time of morning is normal for college students. Naturally, you'd be thinking right because you're a smart person. This is the time of night where reality begins sitting in and I wonder why I'm still an engineering student.

So, let me begin my Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) rant.

I'm taking 19 credit hours. Not an impossible circumstance, but 4 of those credit hours are for Engineering 192.01H. In case you're not familiar with FEH, 4 credit hours basically means you will be doing about 8-12 credit hours worth of work for a single engineering class. ... Okay, I'm just kidding, I'm not going to spend a lot of time complaining about it (I do that enough already).

But seriously, the amount of things I've had to do in the past two weeks has inspired me to just sleep less in general. Your body can function off 6 or less hours of sleep a day pretty well -- if you space out your sleeping periods into two regular 2-4 hour naps per day. It works, but recently I've just given up on the nap idea and just sleep for 3-5 hours once. It's worked for the past 3 days, but it's pretty obvious that I need more sleep.

On the plus side, I'm getting really good at quickly copying notes from Dr. Boros's math lecture, microsleeping, waking up, copying new things that have been put up, and repeating the process for 48 minutes. Fortunately, the hypnic jerks that were so prevalent in my high school study halls have become less frequent.

I look forward to sleep on the weekends and will gladly sleep 10+ hours into Saturday and Sunday.

Now if I could just get my roommate to quit rubbing in my lack of sleep...

Is it lame to title this 'First Post'?...yes? Ok, I'll title it 'Sleep.'

Well, here it is, 1:16 AM and what am I doing? I'm creating a blog. I should be sleeping, however my wonderful roommate has insisted that we do this instead. So I think this is the part where words are supposed to start flowing and fill everyone with happiness and blah blah blah.
Today I had to wake up early to go to French class. I always enjoy French class because it's not like a typical class. We get to actually talk and discuss things as a class instead of like a boring lecture. This is the only reason I don't mind waking up at 7:50 every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I would say that one of my weaknesses is that I need lots of sleep. I am an extremely heavy sleeper and I do not like to wake up. If I haven't gotten like 7 or 8 hours of sleep, I'm usually pretty grumpy the next day. As a result, I have made it my priority to be going to bed at around midnight every night. This way I get extra sleep on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and just enough on M, W, and F.
A hot topic recently has been sleep. Steven and I have discussed it quite often over the past few days. This is because Steven has also adopted a new sleep schedule. He has taken up napping late in the evening and then staying up until about 6 or 8 in the morning and then going to bed. I'm not quite sure how he does it, but if it works for him, so who am I to question? But anyway, it is common knowledge that I get many many more hours of sleep than Steven. So naturally, I rub it in. It has become my new goal to try to bring it up whenever I can. If I get the opportunity to say something about how I feel well rested, I do. It's my new favorite hobby. But now I have stayed up way past my bedtime and I think it's time for some sleep. Luckily, it's a Thursday so I can sleep in. Bonne nuit!