<p>I’m a night person, and yet for over five years I have had to be at work at 6 AM (with a year or two of 5 AM shifts) five days a week. I hated it but I survived, and learned coping skills. The idea that you would change your entire future because of a few months of discomfort is just silly, but if that’s what you’d rather do then so be it. I had an 8 AM chemistry class last term and this term, with two hour labs directly afterwards. I eat breakfast before class and bring coffee, and I’m doing just fine. It’s doable, even for night people like me.</p>
<p>Why not just go to sleep earlier? It seems like a better solution than completely changing your major. If you plan things ahead of time you won’t really be in the position of staying up around midnight or later to study. Personally I have been lucky at getting later classes, but I still plan on going to sleep at 11pm or 12am so I can wake up comfortably at 7am or 8am. My earliest class for the Fall of 2012 will be 11am, but I do plan on doing some studying and preparing for my classes until they start. I think it is a smart idea to wake up a couple of hours before actually going to class. Get ready, get a quick breakfast, do a quick physical/breathing activity, and then head off to class. 6-8 hours of sleep with about two hours of preparation prior to class will probably make a successful start of the day with your early morning classes even for someone that might not be a morning person.
If however you are not really as interested in your major as you imagined, then it would probably be a good idea to speak with your advisor about changing your major. I am sure if you tell your advisor that you do not like taking early classes they will probably tell you some of the things others have already mentioned.</p>
<p>Best of luck! :)</p>
<p>8ams are the bane of my existence. I feel your pain. I had to take a very difficult 2hr 8am class both my first and second semesters (it was one of those part a part b courses). No matter what alarm system, coffee incentive, bedtime, mode of transportation, or outfit planning I tried ahead of time, I would always either be late or not show up at all. That really hurt my grade because there was an attendance policy and my teacher had no empathy even when she could see I was trying very hard to do well. I also just couldn’t pay attention at 8am despite getting sleep and coffee. I ended up getting a C+ first semester, and a C- the second. Not good, I know, but I wouldn’t change majors because of it. If you like the major you’re in now, just suffer through and you’ll probably at least pass. If you prefer the other major anyway and you know they don’t require 8ams, go ahead and make the switch.</p>
<p>when you get a real full time job, not being ‘a morning individual’ is just not an excuse. you better savor the vacations you have left start adapting my friend.</p>
<p>No one even bothers to read what I post :(</p>
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Sorry, self-righteousness comes first. Admitting that starting later in the day can be biologically beneficial would deprive people of smugly telling others that they’re inadequate or have to change.</p>
<p>I suffered the 7:45 AM class schedule in high school, and on occasion, the 6:00 AM indoor soccer scrimmage during snowstorms, and I want today’s high school kids to go through these things as well.</p>
<p>might I add my parents were very supportive of my athletic endeavors and let me bike to soccer practice at 6 AM in a freaking skimask.</p>
<p>Don’t switch to nursing - I start at 6:30! But guess what… I’m done by 1 in the afternoon, and enjoy my day.</p>
<p>The biology thing doesn’t hold weight for me because no one has ever shown me a cross cultural study. Every other country I’ve been to has teenagers that get up early without nearly the complaints we get here.</p>
<p>Indeed, the biology hasn’t been fully tested to the point where i would accept it</p>
<p>The biology argument is actually quite interesting, and it may very well be true, but it doesn’t change the fact that most people have to wake up early to go to work. I despise waking up in the morning, and I am most productive after 8-9pm (definitely a night owl here), so I would love to present some research to my professor/boss and have him change my whole schedule so I can sleep in every day. HOWEVER, that’s not going to happen, so instead of complaining about having to wake up, I just try to be positive, have a nice coffee when I get to school and make the best of my mornings (as soon as I get home I take a little nap though haha).</p>
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Just because you haven’t seen any doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
Go down to “A Widespread and High-Impact Part of Teens’ Lives” of [this</a> link](<a href=“http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/hot-topics/backgrounder-later-school-start-times]this”>How Would Later School Start Times Affect Sleep? | Sleep Foundation) for a good starting point of what to look for. </p>
<p>It’s accepted enough to be mentioned in my introductory psychology book (gleitman 8e)</p>
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<p>When did I say otherwise?</p>
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<p>I hate 8 am, hell even 9 am classes, as much as anyone…but realize I’ll be waking up to be at work at 8 for the rest of my life…might as well get used to it.</p>
<p>^ You’ll likely be STARTING work at 8 AM. Waking up much sooner 
lol</p>
<p>OP, I think that if the chemistry major schedule is that much better, then it wouldn’t be bad to switch. I don’t think your options after school will be any different if you switch to chemistry, and if you think you can get better grades in a class scheduled later, then it’s not a big deal as others seem to be making it out to be. </p>
<p>In my experience, I had a really difficult time waking up for class all throughout college, and the one 8 AM I had I ended up taking pass/fail because I would miss class sometimes (it wasn’t required for my major so it didn’t matter that I did). After college, I worked two serving jobs, one with an average 8 AM start time, and I never was late for it. It was very easy to wake up for, even it was on Sunday when I had done doubles the two previous days and had another double ahead of me. I didn’t sleep more than 6 hours after a double when I had work the next morning. I think waking up for work for some reason kicks the body into a different gear, so don’t worry about proving to yourself that you can wake up early for any occasion.</p>
<p>It’s okay to go to an 8a class. Just wake up at 7:00 and get out of your dorm by 7:30 and you will be fine. Then grab a quick sandwich on your way and eat your food in class, most profs don’t mind.</p>
<p>If you prefer, you can even wake up at 7:30 and head straight for class. A 10 or 15 minutes walk will get you to your class exactly on time, provided you leave the dorm quickly after waking up.</p>
<p>maybe you should just drop out of college</p>