<p>Anyone else having trouble getting up on time for earlier classes? I even put the alarm clock across the room, forcing myself to get out of bed to turn it off and thus really wake up, and somehow I don't remember turning off the alarm and I end up missing my first class of the morning. I just can never get to sleep on time and even if I tried I wouldn't be able to sleep. Anyone else having this problem? And the thing is I actually enjoy my classes and want to go to them. Should I start setting a back-up alarm too? Would that even work? Now I'm worried I'll be missing important test days like this and that would be very bad.</p>
<p>or get a friend on your hall to wake you......especially for the exam. Hint: no early class next semester......that would be wise.</p>
<p>Waking up early and on time is very important - especially so when you start working. You might not be able to pick a job in the future that starts late, like you can pick your classes now. So do whatever you can - set 5 backup alarms, put a sign above your bed that says "wake up NOW or you will MISS your class!", set up a contraption that pours a bucket of water on your face, anything. However, don't rely on other people to wake you up. When you go out into the real world and start working, you won't always have that luxury of having other people to help you wake up. Better develop the skill now when the consequences aren't AS serious as in the future.</p>
<p>My suggestion was for avoiding the missed exams. Finals are soon upon us. As to the regular rising.....get a plan. I'd say that you need to begin by getting enough sleep and then moving toward operating on sleep deprivation. The discipline of rising and the discipline of rising w/ sleep deprivation are two varsity sports....training, training, training.</p>
<p>Keep regular hours. If your internal clock is used to you getting up at 8:00, you will probably wake up very near 8:00 on your own, even without an alarm clock. I know because I keep waking up around 6:00 even on my days off!</p>
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<p>lol, I really should do that.</p>
<p>Seriously, I'm worried about when I go into the work world and I'm still having this problem. Because they won't tolerate that **** at all. First thing I need to do is stop getting up 1 or 2 pm on the weekends so that I don't go to bed so late on Sunday. But then I can't sleep in because my freakin' body wants to stay up all night by default. Guess I'll start going to bed at a relatively early time regardless of whether I'm tired or not.</p>
<p>also see if you can set your cell phone alarm to your ring tone. I know I always jump out of whatever state I'm in when I hear my cell ring. Put it somewhere in a corner or a pocket or something so you have to DO something to answer it.</p>
<p>I have a clock that has 4 alarms on it set on different times. For example, my class starts at 9am. I have each alarm set at 7:45, 8:00, 8:15 and 8:30am. I eventually wake up and get out of bed around 8:00-8:15am. That way, I never miss class.</p>
<p>Now, if only I can GET TO CLASS on time, and not be 5-10 minutes late....</p>
<p>Alright I'm going to start going to bed around 1 am every night no matter how tired I am. And I will just do whatever I need to do in order to try an relax and get to sleep. Usually it takes me an hour or so before I finally fall asleep. I think way too much. Maybe that's my problem. I should stop thinking in general. =P</p>
<p>^Once you begin to force yourself to lie down a regular sleep pattern will develop. I notice that if I force myself to go to bed early, I usually wake up the alotted # of hrs I previously slept. So, if you find yourself fully awake an hour too late, try to get to bed two hours early.</p>
<p>good luck with it, adconard! i haven't had much trouble waking up at 7:00 for an 8:00 class (every day too, ugh) but that's because I had to wake up at 6:00 every day in high school by myself. It took a lot of self-discipline but what motivated me was the consequences of not waking up on time. Not good. So....good luck!</p>
<p>I had the same problem waking up and I missed couple of important lectures. so i have devised a pretty good plan.The idea is to change the idea of "waking up in the morning" itself. I go to bed around 4:30 in the afternoon after I finish my classes and wake up around 11:30. after shower and "breakfast", I head to the library and stay there until 2:30 am. 2:30-4- hanging out on pool hall with some regular allnighters. 4-8-further study. 8-second breakfast.9-2- classes/lunch. 2-4- gym and/or Tennis team practice. 4-"dinner".</p>
<p>Its worrked for me at least academically if not socially, apart from daily pool with same people. But who cares? I got weekend for that. But you got to get used to dracula-esque nocturnal life.</p>
<p>wow cassius! you're basically taking on a schedule of somebody who has a night shift lol. isn't it kinda lonely to be up when everybody else is asleep?</p>
<p>for an 8 AM class</p>
<p>7 20AM, alarm one goes off
7 30 AM, alarm two goes off
7 40 AM, stereo starts to play loud rock music
7 50 AM, friend calling my cell phone/dorm phone if she doesnt see me in class (she has a voice which i like a lot.......)</p>
<p>Ya its super lonely especially when you struggle through 100 pages of reading alone in a deserted library when everyone is sleeping. And its been around a week since I last saw my roommate. But you also get 8 hours of uninterrupted time every day.And there are other people who follow similar plan and we get along pretty well.</p>
<p>cool, all the power to ya</p>
<p>Wow this is already working for me. I forced myself to bed around 1 and I ended up actually falling asleep somehow. Now I got much more sleep than usual and feel a lot more energized. I'm going to stick with this plan. Best of all, I actually didn't sleep through turning off my alarm, lol.</p>
<p>Have the same problem (though I'm in highschool). What I ended up doing was setting three alarms - two clocks, one watch - to all go off a minute apart from one another. </p>
<p>(Of course, then I started getting up and turning all three off at once without remembering. But it worked for a month or two.)</p>
<p>glad it's improving adconard</p>
<p>In high school I was tired all the time, and sometimes I ran on very little sleep. The worst was one week where by classes on Friday, I had 15 hours of sleep since Sunday night.</p>
<p>During my first semester in college, I stayed up till 3 or 4 every night (or later), and I didn't do as well as I wanted. Now, I usually go to bed by 2 (asleep by 3, I have that same problem as you), and get up at 9 on the weekdays. Then on the weekends I try to get up at before 11. I always have enough energy once I get up, it's getting up that's sometimes the problem. Especially on the weekends, when I could just sleep more, but I know that will mess up my sleep schedule for the next day.</p>
<p>Eventually you'll figure out how much sleep your body needs a night so that you don't need to take a nap during the day. For me, it's about 6 hours. Then, as someone else said, your internal clock will wake you up. For instance, I often wakeup 1 or 2 minutes before my alarm goes off.</p>
<p>Tonight though, i'm staying up until this blasted baseball game finishes.</p>
<p>Arg can't sleep again. I give up for tonight. I have to be up in a few hours. I will definitely sleep through the alarm again if I just doze off two hours before I have to get up.</p>
<p>Time to go see the doctor I suppose. This is getting ridiculous.</p>