<p>Subterranean: That bothers me so much. One time, my AP Chem teacher complained that he had so much work and had to stay up late. Another classmate asked what time he had to go to bed, and he replied: 9 pm. Sigh…</p>
<p>That’s exactly what I was having to do the couple weeks before Spring Break…several days I stayed up until 12:30 AM, gave myself until 2:00 AM to sleep, and then got up and finished my homework. It was very difficult to go to school and practice after school.</p>
<p>Anyway, my suggestions are to:</p>
<p>1) Drink caffeine. You’ll crash later, but it’s a quick fix if you need to finish something.
2) Give yourself mini 20 minute naps, but only if you’ll actually get up after. They’ll help you recharge. My advice is to set a timer for the ten minute mark and then set another timer for the second ten minutes, it’ll seem longer.
3) Try and cram homework in at lunch and breaks. It’s not fun, but if it means more sleep later then it’s worth it!
4) If you know the next few days are going to be rough no matter what, then cram most of it in the first day. Get as much done as possible so instead of having three or four bad days, have one practically sleepless night and then have the next few days with some good rest.</p>
<p>Anyway, that’s what I try to do. What can we say? School sucks when you’re trying to get good grades in hard classes along with extracurriculars. Luckily, my sport just ended. Yay!</p>
<p>I’ve become accustomed to a bizarre sleep schedule of 4-5 hours most nights, with a nap of about 2 hours in the afternoon on every day except Wednesday (I have Martial Arts Club and work Wednesdays). I’m a bit zombie-like most days, but I’m really just a night person in general. </p>
<p>On weekends, I’ll sleep anywhere from 6 to 11 or even 12 hours per night, depending on what time I go to bed and whether or not I have work or some type of activity that particular weekend.</p>
<p>Why don’t you guys just get the sleep you need? Even if it gives you more time to do homework, slogging through the day with 3 hrs of sleep isn’t going to get you anywhere. You’ll be paying less attention in classes, making more mistakes in homework, have less focus while studying, and perform worse in sports. Get at least 6, you can find the time for that if you can find the time to be on here</p>
<p>You sleep when you can. I would come home from school and crash, sleep at least 3-5 hours. Then I’d wake up and do homework. Then I’d crash again for an hour or more if I had time. Then I’d wake up again and do more homework. Then, if I was lucky, I would crash again for an hour, but if not, I’d get up and go to school. You just need to nap a lot and sleep a lot on the weekends, and try to get yourself onto a schedule where sleep deprivation is not a permanent thing but is instead something that only happens around finals or something.</p>
<p>We have double swim practices that start at 6 AM (rise 'n shine! I actually just got back) so I’ve only been getting about 6 hours of sleep. It does affect sport performance. It’s not that I get tired more quickly, it’s that my muscles feel slow and heavy, and it’s harder to focus on sprinting. It probably adds up to +3-4 seconds for each 100 in a threshold set, which is quite a bit for swimming. And if you’re sleep deprived, running can make you very nauseous (note to self: take a nap before running this afternoon). The point is that if you’re seeing your performance in sports go down and you’re a busy high school student, lack of sleep is probably a big factor.</p>
<p>I’ve always gotten 6 hours of sleep a night, minimum – usually more like 7-8. Honestly, most people’s schedules are manageable if you’re disciplined and do homework during lunch/free time as SOON as you can, so you can go to bed at 10:30 ready for tomorrow :)</p>
<p>for me, sleeping > schoolwork
I get close to 10 hours of sleep a day, and usually sneak in a 1-2 hour nap a few days a week.</p>
<p>edit: lolol I just realized how this sounds… yes I know I’m pretty much a sloth. But if you avoid distractions while you’re still awake, you can finish your work and then some.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize it but I was basically running on autopilot junior year. Bed at 12, wake at 6, then school, practice, homework, later rinse repeat. I wasn’t at my highest functioning status and I actually became accustomed to falling asleep during calc (1:00 in the afternoon after lunch = terrible time for math). Basically now I just stop. Ten o’clock? No more homework. Except for spring break now when I’m up until three and still get up at 8 I think I got used to no sleep.</p>
<p>Junior year: No schedule + Procrastination + Etc = very little sleep.</p>
<p>Senior year: Schedule + Motivation/goal (okay by 4th quarter it dies and for the first time of High School I went intentionally with late work) = Plenty of sleep, which now is a must-have over schoolwork.</p>
<p>@above: Engineering majors… But staying up will be fun, if I’m not wasting my time reading literature or brainless sorting numbers for statistics–instead doing projects and learning how things work… I might even get things done ahead of time because of interest :D</p>
I think I got used to no sleep.</p>