<p>So I have a problem with time management. This began this year, my junior year of high school. Basically, I come home from school and take a two our nap before I head to work. After work, I procrastinate on all of my homework until 3 am, which is when I actually START my assignments. Then, I shower and go to school, only to come home and do this all over again.
Yes, I do feel tired in the mornings, but this usually wears off. I'm pretty much nocturnal this year. And yes I know it's unhealthy, blah blah blah, but I really can't kick this habit.
Even though my daily homework load is very large, for some reason, my friends who take similar classes as I do get normal hours of sleep. I guess it's just me.
Do you guys have any tips on how I can become a normal student again? Or are any of you in this similar situation? I'd like to hear thoughts and such.
Also, if you're wondering, my grades are pretty okay. I get mostly A's, save for occasional B's in AP classes.
AND YES, I AM WRITING THIS POST INSTEAD OF DOING MY HOMEWORK. SURPRISE, SURPRISE.</p>
<p>Just become the next Napoleon. He only slept in 20 minute intervals whenever he had the chance.</p>
<p>First of all, don’t procrastinate until 3am. And don’t take a 2 hour nap. Maybe nap for 1 hour, then write down all of the things you need to get done. Have that list RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU so that you don’t get distracted. Then maybe finish a couple tasks and take a ten minute break. Then continue doing your work. Reward yourself with candy or something. Then you’ll be done with your work and go STRAIGHT TO BED. Do not go on the internet or else you won’t get much sleep. </p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>It’s a self perpetuating cycle, in some ways. You are tired, so you have trouble focusing on your homework, so it goes slower and you get distracted by other things that require less brain power. Then it takes you longer to get finished, so you don’t get much sleep.
Try adjusting slowly. Set limits on yourself, like doing XYZ before dinner or setting decreasing limits on yourself on how much time you can spend doing other things online. (There are extensions for pretty much every browser that will allow you to block certain websites for a certain amount of time to help with this.)
And get yourself on a normal sleep schedule. Set a bedtime for yourself. You may end up staying up past it, but it gives you a goal to work towards. Can you also enlist your parents for some accountability on this if you want some help?</p>
<p>It’s good that you recognize that you have a potential problem here. Now you need to do something about it. Develop healthier habits now so that you won’t find yourself in huge trouble in college, or later on when you have a job. </p>
<p>Lack of sleep makes it hard to concentrate, so you don’t focus on the task at hand and get distracted. It also leads to a host of health problems. You need to make time for some daily exercise, which helps a great deal with sleep and makes you feel better.</p>
<p>Changing your habits–limiting caffeine, limiting naps, limiting time online, getting exercise–takes some discipline but you have to do it.</p>
<p>I have the same exact problem. I’ve kind of gotten used to little to no sleep. This summer at governors school I once stayed up for six days straight (lab work during the day and research paper work at night). I know this is VERY unhealthy. Even when I set aside time for sleep now (I’ve set a goal to go to bed before midnight) I can’t fall asleep because my body isn’t used to it. @AnImpAflliction, sometimes those afternoon naps are 100% necessary (I need all the sleep I can get!).</p>
<p>Quit the job or decrease those hours.</p>
<p>Kitten23, I agree about naps. However studies show that if you take too long of a nap, it can actually be counterproductive because you’ll wake up groggy and that’s not good. An after school nap should be about 30-45 minutes but whenever I take a nap, I sleep for a good hour. Two hours is a little too much.</p>
<p>I feel great after a 3 or 4 hour nap (haha, I wish I could get that long of naps more often-that is about the longest period of uninterrupted sleep I can get recently). My normal nap is probably an hour or so though.</p>
<p>Dude just quit your job. Unless you’re the CEO of a big company, the pay’s probably not worth the lack of sleep and bad grades.</p>
<p>junior year i averaged about 4 or 5 hours of sleep, and so far, senior year has been hardly better. i have horrific puffy eyes with dark circles and it seems like they’ll never go away. i have shaky hands, and i feel like my extreme sleep deprivation has caused it. i also already have forehead wrinkles…wouldn’t be surprised if that was related as well. i procrastinate like crazy, too, but i’m trying really hard to stop. your daily routine sounds like hell. you should think about quitting your job because it really doesn’t seem worth it.</p>
<p>how are you still alive?!?!?!
stop procrastinating so much, I procrastinate too, some is manageable, but to the point that you sleep 2 hours a day is bad.</p>
<p>try to start your homework before 3am, maybe at 2, and then progressively start earlier and earlier (so it’s not a sudden change of habit). Maybe you’ll actually be able to sleep!</p>
<p>90 minute naps are the best kinds because that’s how long a sleep cycle takes so that when you wake up you’re not in deep sleep.</p>
<p>I’m not going to give you advice, lol. I’m super jealous of you.
I don’t do anything for hours, and then stay up late doing homework. When I have less than 6 hours of sleep I can’t function hahaha. Today I fell asleep in 3 different classes, and barely made it through the rest.
Right now, I’m supposed to be studying for a physics test, but I know I’m going to fail anyway, so I might not bother and go to sleep instead.
And I have to do an outline for debate that I haven’t touched :/</p>
<p>thats like inhuman
and super unhealthy. lol please sleep! quit your job…</p>
<p>I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of sleep deprived students.</p>
<p>So, like if you stop sleeping, wouldn’t the skin under your eyes get really baggy? You might look like a raccoon. And then your eyes may roll out of the sockets, cause the skin is too lose to hold them in place. And when the eyes fall out you’d look like a snail. So then you’d have to get eye surgery in order to a) pop the eyes back into place and b) fix the loose skin. Your eyes may get dirty too, so I’d recommend scrubbing them real good with oxyclean and drying them with a DRY sponge, or else your dirty tap water will infect the eyes and you’ll get cancer.</p>
<p>Overall I would not recommend only 2 hours of sleep because of the above mentioned effects plus mild to severe diarrhea.</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>That awkward moment when its 12:38 AM, you have homework on homework, and you’re reading about someone’s poor sleep patterns…and they’re better than yours.</p>
<p>I actually do make lists of all of my assignments that I need to complete. I didn’t say that I was unorganized :). Also, it’s hard to stay off the internet when most of my assignments require internet research, or I need to print out a specific worksheet, or I need to watch a related video, etc.</p>
<p>My work schedule is actually better than it used to be. I used to have THREE jobs (yikes) but cut it down to just one this year. It’s not a time consuming job, as I work only 2 hours a day, 3 at most. It’s just I procrastinate soooo bad (my own personal hamartia), that I begin homework at 3 AM.</p>