<p>I get distracted by other things, like sleeping.
I guess I’ll just deal with it until the end of my senior year.
Yay for premature heart failure!</p>
<p>Study hard. Sleep hard. Play hard. Saves time</p>
<p>I usually get about 7 hours. I can generally manage to function for a day or two with only 3 hours/day but not for long spans.</p>
<p>Red Bull and coffee</p>
<p>^^^^ I second that</p>
<p>I normally get 7-4 hours on weekdays. Basically what I do is take a nap the day after I get 5 hr or less, unless it’s the weekend. If you are skimping out on sleep, it is imperative that you get over 8 hours of sleep each on Friday and Saturday night. Also, just sleep more. Just try your best to consciously eliminate distractions.</p>
<p>Make up sleep on the weekends. I get about 5-6 on the weekdays, but 9-12 on the weekends. It’s great. </p>
<p>Also showering before going to bed helps me sometimes fall asleep easier.</p>
<p>I totally understand. I CANNOT function on that little sleep, even after just one night. I need 6 hours to feel alive, and even that’s pushing it. After a lot of time management work and realizing that I needed to make sleep a priority, I typically get 9 hours of sleep a night. It can be really hard depending on where you go (I’m at a top 20 and it’s really hard for me) but it’s doable.
Also, I find that setting a regular schedule helps so much!</p>
<p>If you are only getting 3-4 hours of sleep a night, you are not performing as well as you can. In addition such a practice is damaging to your health. It has been scientifically proven that 6-10 hours is needed. There have been studies linking diabetes and heart disease to a lack of sleep. Many accidents have been linked to sleep-deprived people. You immune system will be compromised, making you susceptible to every virus that wanders into your school. At your age you need to sleep. </p>
<p>How are you budgeting your time? Examine your schedule. Have you overloaded your schedule with too many activities? Do you have a job? Start your schoolwork early. If it is not done by midnight, then (horrors) stop and go to bed. You probably can get up a few minutes earlier, be more efficient and complete the work. </p>
<p>Existing on only a few hours of sleep is not noble. It is reckless. It is not the indication of a dedicated student or a professional. I would be very concerned if I was aware of any professional I depended upon was intoxicated, using any type of drugs or was sleep deprived.</p>
<p>Set a bedtime and go to sleep whether you’re done or not. There’s no reason you should be getting that little sleep.</p>
<p>Coffee. Try to get at least an hour more of sleep, it’ll make a difference.</p>
<p>I sleep about 8 hours a day on average. 10 on weekends. I believe the trick is quality sleep and eating healthy/exercising. Most people consider me an “over-achiever” so trust me when I say my schedule is packed, but I make sleep a priority.</p>
<p>No matter how packed my schedule is, I make sure I sleep. Taking on five college classes will make you learn to prioritize. Unless you have a paper per week, per class, in the middle of sports season, you should be able to get more sleep. Use spring break to make a schedule. Get an agenda if you have one and write down everything you need to do. Even on days where I am packed with homework, if I get home and am just done, I take a nap. It really rejuvenates.</p>
<p>I know this sounds cliche, but…</p>
<p>I find it hard to function on nights I get <4hrs of sleep. So I meditate! Just sit down and let my mind clear itself. After I meditate my mind functions freshly and normally. Just meditate for 15-20 mins and you’re fine.</p>
<p>But worrying about sleep on spring break? Who does that? 
sleep at 12 and wake up at 12 like a boss</p>
<p>Guys. I had 7 hours of sleep last night and I couldn’t function this morning. I’m like a baby…</p>
<p>I go to sleep by 12:30-1AM every night. There’s no point studying past 12AM, especially at that point where the eyes get glossy - nothing is getting processed the right way. Instead, I spend Saturday from about 12PM to 8PM and Sunday from 10AM-10ish just plugging away (with meal breaks, obviously). </p>
<p>Honestly, it’s all about how you manage your time and what time you think is more important than sleep.</p>
<p>Another option, but one I’ve never been able to make work, is run an atypical sleeping schedule.
A hardworking student I know (who also happens to not do sports or work which helps) goes to bed at 4PM daily. While it certainly interrupts family dinners and texting friends all night and whatnot, she finds that it saves her from the hour she used to waste every afternoon of relaxing after school, so she has more time to do LOTS of homework.
She will then wake up at about 1 AM, eat “breakfast,” and do work. “Lunch” occurs right before school, and school hours are a pseudo-afternoon/evening.</p>
<p>I think that depends on your priorities then. Family dinner is a huge priority for me and it’s a bigger “to do” than school.</p>
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