<p>There was recently a thread about how much sleep people got (like...a month ago) and I was shocked at the results. People getting four hours of sleep every night? Yikes! Granted, that may be all people need, but I doubt all the people getting virtually no sleep can function well on it. Academics are probably a big reason for lack of sleep. So, how many hours of homework do you have per night? Do sports affect sleep patterns as well?</p>
<p>It's just unimaginable to me that someone has 5+ hours of homework per night. Heck, I go to a very competitive school and I usually have 1-2 hours, maybe 2-3 on weekends. On some nights, I don't do any work at all. Obviously, if I have a huge paper, I'll spend all day doing it (or all weekend, if it's research...) but those don't come that often.</p>
<p>So, I ask all of you: How much homework? Where does this colossal amount come from? How is it even possible to have so much homework (assuming you don't fool around while doing it)? I mean, if you're staying up until midnight doing work, something is wrong. Really wrong. I'm taking a hard courseload (six AP tests, equivalent courses) and I always get my eight hours.</p>
<p>Homework never really should affect the amount of sleep I get, but sometimes it does - but only because of procrastination. Usually if I have any homework at all [I have 6 APs this year], it's only like 30 minutes or so. TOPS. But for a project or something like that [essay, powerpoint, etc], we usually have at least a few days to work on it, probably a week, but I never really do anything till the night before it's due.
But I can function for about 10 hours on around 2-3 hours of sleep [which happens with I procrastinate on the project and refuse to stop working till it's perfect haha]. I just have to take a good nap the next day after school. For me to get the 8 hours I'd like to have during the school year, I'd have to be asleep by 9:30pm. And that's NOT happening... so I usually am in bed by 11, 11:30 I'm asleep, so I get 6 hours regularly.</p>
<p>I spend all day doing Florida Virtual School during the summer so I can safely have senioritis with full time dual enrollment (only 13 hours a week of easy Community College classes).</p>
<p>Suckers.</p>
<p>I'll be sure to pack in 7 hours of sleep a night, unless I'm partying.</p>
<p>^Amount of homework. I hope they do. Some people at my school don't do sports and then complain that they got like four hours of sleep. I have trouble believing that.</p>
<p>I myself do not play a sport. However, on weekdays, my ECs take up as much time as some sports (I get home around 6-7, I know some sports take up a little more time).</p>
<p>Not very much. Half an hour tops, only because I'm slow at math. Teachers never give us homework because they think we have loads of it from other classes.</p>
<p>Well it all depends what you do with your time. During the seasons when I have sports, I would go come home from practice, shower, eat, and then immediately do my homework. I'd usually get done a little past 11 and then would go to sleep by 12. But during the winter when I have less activities, I'd still be in bed at around 12 because I end up taking a nap or watching tv. My recommendation though is never get less than 6 hours of sleep a night. You'll feel all right for a couple days, but then after awhile your brain begins to shut off randomly.</p>
<p>I usually have a solid 0-30 minutes of homework a night, but it seems that I'm somehow a special case -- I have friends taking less challenging courses than I am that oftentimes complain about the "all-nighters" that they always have to pull.</p>
<p>Well, I loveeddd freshman year.
I got to finish all my homework during school. It was so simple. I rarely had to do anything at home, unless it was to type an english paper up which was rare, or study for a final or test.</p>
<p>Sophomore year will be harder, but not by much. I don't think my school is very difficult.</p>
<p>Year before last, I had about 4 hours a night. This year was pretty easy and with a busy extracurricular schedule, I just did most of my homework the class before (the easy stuff, not projects or anything). It took about 1 hour at most, haha. </p>
<p>However, I plan on getting my act together this year and studying more often instead of just making notecards and reviewing them during class. Sophomore year at my school is supposedly the most difficult because of all the required classes and difficult/looney teachers. I'm estimating 3-5 hours a night.</p>
<p>Oh, and sleepwise, I got about 6 hours a night this year. If I get between 6 and 7.5, that's just enough that I'm not on that sleep-deprivation energy spike and too little to be genuinely rested. I'm aiming for--eek--a full 8 hours a night this year, but that'd mean bedtime at 9:30. We'll see.... Ask again in a month, haha!</p>
<p>Four nights of the week: Less than thirty minutes total of homework.
One night of the week (usually on Mondays, when I work until 9:00): >3 hours of busy work.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how it happens, but my teachers always seem to assign homework on the same night and no homework any other nights. It's like a conspiracy!</p>