<p>Sorry if theres another thread for this.</p>
<p>Also, how much sleep is ideal for you? Thanks!</p>
<p>Also, if you remember how much sleep did you get in soph/junior/senior years in highschool?</p>
<p>I can’t function on less than 7 or 8 hours of sleep a night, and I was able to manage that throughout my time at MIT. I wouldn’t be surprised if I got slightly less sleep as a high schooler since school always starts in the early morning.</p>
<p>I think Molly has some interesting statistics on that. </p>
<p>You show him, Molly! :)</p>
<p>Yeah haha Molly’s infamous spreadsheet.</p>
<p>I really need 8 hours biologically, but I’ve trained myself to get by with 5 or 6 since sophomore spring (I have to “make up for it” during the weekends by snoozing for 10+ hours). Last semester hit an all time low (six classes is not fun, yo) where I only slept 4 or 5 hours per night for the last 6 weeks of term.</p>
<p>A lot of this is self-inflicted though. I would estimate that I operate at 65% efficiency normally - if I ramp up to 90%, I don’t see why I can’t get more than 7 hours a night.</p>
<p>ps. This is how I usually feel on school nights:
7+ = heaven
6.5 = close enough
6 = I will get by
5.5 = Sigh…
5 = Will get sleepy tomorrow
4.5 = Uh-oh
4 = I need to buy coffee tomorrow (I’m extremely sensitive to caffeine, so a cup of coffee can keep me running for a full day)
<3.5 = x_______x</p>
<p>I get so much mileage out of these statistics on CC.</p>
<p><a href=“http://web.mit.edu/mollieb/Public/Sleep%20Statistics.pdf[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/mollieb/Public/Sleep%20Statistics.pdf</a></p>
<p>I got less sleep in high school than I did in college, because I had to be up much earlier for class and I liked to talk on the phone late at night. In college, as you might be able to infer from my statistics, I discovered that I am much more stupid on 4 hours of sleep than on 7 hours, and I adjusted my study/pset/social habits accordingly.</p>
<p>Depends on which semester for me:</p>
<p>10 hrs+ on P/NR
8hrs at beginning of term, 6 hrs during finals for normal semesters. I slept about the same amount as in high school, just spread out differently (high school was much more regular. You’ll discover that when finals come, it becomes very difficult not to pull 3-4 days of 5-6 hrs a night).</p>
<p>I’ll also note that, as you get older, you need less sleep - and you also get better at falling asleep when there’s noise outside. I usually spend ~6.5 hours in bed with my door closed and 6 hours of that asleep.</p>
<p>Pro tip: try to sleep in 1.5 hour blocks so you aren’t waking up in the middle of a REM cycle, you’ll feel more well-rested.</p>
<p>That’s more sleep than I get in high school, which I suppose is good. I can’t imagine getting up at 8 or 9 though…I’m up at 4:50 every day for school now! Haha.</p>
<p>I think DS actually got more sleep while in university than in high school because he didn’t have to get up so early for class. </p>
<p>He revealed to us that he still went to bed in the early morning hours but the difference was that in college, he actually studied vs high school he just wrote, tooled with programing, and thought alot, and not actually “study” In College, he would take weekday power sleeps 2-6 hours in the afternoon-evening, hitting the book about 8-9pm going at it to 2-4am. Thus in day’s cycle he would get ~6+/- hours at night and another ~3hrs +/- in the afternoon. Sat, Sun, and maybe Friday are catchup times.</p>