I am not overly lazy, but I am a fan of being in bed by 10:00, and waking up at 7:00. I understand that I am going to have to stay up later than this, and even do all-nighters around finals time. Which schools prefer learning the material and our physical and mental well-being over lots and lots of work? Also, I have struggled with depression, so I need to not be too stressed. Thanks!!!
You do not have to do all nighters around finals time if you plan/study in advance.
Make sure you do not take classes that are too advanced for what you are prepared for.
Don’t take too many credits at one.
Don’t take two many difficult/lab classes at once.
You will be fine at most any college.
Thanks for the advice! @bopper
I hope you can find a roommate like you.
I’ll try! 
@“International Dad”
You do not need to pull all nighters if you manage your time well. Choose a balanced course load (one lab course, one reading-intensive humanities course per semester) and don’t join everything. Try one or two clubs at first just to see how it goes.
You typically have more flexibility in scheduling classes in college than you do in high school. For the most part, you can arrange your class schedule to accommodate a reasonable sleep schedule or to avoid having classes after a certain evening hour. Your biggest obstacle might be your roommates schedule, like previous poster suggested.
Don’t major in Computer Science. Finding and fixing that last bug often takes you into the wee hours of the morning. :-S
IMO the trick will be to find a single room or a roommate who wants to keep similar hours.
I would suggest that you try to be more flexible on weekends for the sake of your social life.
My college kids were the early to bed, early to rise types and needed their sleep. A considerate roommate helps. The one that got assigned a roommate filled out the roommate questionnaire to emphasize her desire for sleep and quiet and being studious rather than a partier. For both kids it worked out fine. They both have adjusted to the later schedule that students tend to keep, but in ways that work for them. They still get their sleep.
Choose your dorm carefully – you don’t want to be housed in party central. Every school is different, but you will need to contact other students after you are admitted to find out the reputations of various dorms.
One of mine has health issues that prohibit late nights. She was organized and always got things done in advance.
If you have a record of depression, you can register with the disabilities office and request a single room, and sometime there is another avenue to do that too. The ideal is a single in a suite or on a hall full of singles.
Maybe seek out a wellness or substance-free dorm to maximize your chances of finding others with similar preferences.
Have a plan for meeting your needs. Don’t expect others to meet your needs for you. Pick your dorm carefully, if you have any choice in the matter choose your roommate carefully, pick your class schedule carefully, and keep up to the best of your ability. If those things don’t work, get earplugs or noise cancelling headphones, and keep on going to bed when you need to.
Hang out near the athletes. My daughter was in bed well before 10 and was up at 5:30, almost all year long. Her second year she lived with players from a different sport, and even though their schedules were a little different, they weren’t that different.
There really are a lot of kids in those 8 am classes. They sleep too.
Indeed. I was one of those kids though the earliest regular classes at my LAC except some extremely early morning labs started at 9, not 8.
Also, I knew plenty of classmates…especially one classmate a few graduating classes ahead of me with high honors at 17 who never pulled an all-nighter for academic reasons. This was made more amazing considering during one semester he took the equivalent of 7-8 full-time 300-400 level advanced seminar/colloquium classes with heavy research/reading requirements* and audited a couple more as a masochistic test.
- A minimum of 500 pages of assigned reading/week per course. And he managed to not only do all of it, but do it so well he actually had enough time to borrow/read hundreds of more books to prepare for his honors thesis. If you had seen his room, it's almost as if he was operating an annex of our college's library.
My daughter goes to bed early ( by 11:00 at the latest) during the week and gets up early ( 6:00-7:00). She always preferred the 8:00 am classes although this year she seems happy with her slightly later start.
She has never pulled an all nighter and has never studied past 9:30-10:00 on week nights. If you manage your time wisely you will be fine… this means taking full advantage of your free time during the day- an hour here, 45 min there etc. I also agree that you need to choose your roommate wisely.
Or request a single.
I was a person who was early-to-bed-early-to-rise all four years of college. I pulled an all-nighter once. My freshman roommate was a partier who often didn’t even get back in our room until after midnight. However, we made great roommates. She was quiet at night; I was quiet in the mornings. You don’t have to have a roommate with the same schedule as you, but you do need a roommate who is respectful (but don’t we all).
My best roommate ever rowed crew.
She was up with the birds to get to practice. And she was in bed by 10 am every single night, fantastic student, and made it into med school her first application cycle. I do not recall a single all-nighter by her.
I am a night owl and couldn’t get to bed by 10 if I drugged myself. But we respected each other’s body clocks and obligations, socialized outside of our room, and most important- took our shoes off in the hallway before entering the room so we wouldn’t clomp around.
We were friends? No. Did we have anything in common? No. Were we the greatest roommates in our entire dorm? Absolutely.
A little respect goes a long way! During my 20’s when I struggled with the random apartment roommates and the drama and the “why are you leaving for work when I’m just coming back from a party” stuff I thought back on my rowing roommate with great nostalgia!!!