<p>I have friends who get less sleep than I do that can stay awake just fine, but even with 7 hours of sleep every night, I still find myself falling asleep in class. My teachers are pretty chill, and I’m a good student, so some of them just let me sleep. However, if I really need to stay awake, I’ll pack some snacks that take a bit of chewing (like almonds) or chew gum. Fidgeting also helps, although your classmates might give you weird looks haha.</p>
<p>I’m taking 4 APs and on ASB. I’m also playing sports so I don’t get home until around 7. If I can spend an hour on something and get a 90 or spend 2 hours and get a full score, I’ll take the 90 any day.</p>
<p>Staying awake in class just requires feigning interest where it is lacking. Just get excited over anything and you’ll be alert. 6 IB HL classes and 0 Coffee or Tea. </p>
<p>90% of the kids in my school commute from all over the city, so a lack of sleep is common. My school puts on a lot of events and shows, and rehearsals are brutal, so it wasn’t uncommon for me to leave my house for school at 6:40 AM to come back at 8PM. With performances, it would usually be 11:00PM or even midnight. </p>
<p>I would recommend doing as much work as you can during the school day. Even answering one question in between classes can help you later on in your free time.</p>
<p>Wow @emma45 and @Shaywood, I will never again take for granted my getting 7-9 hrs of sleep each night or my 15 min car ride to the Senior lot at my HS…although maybe taking 4 APs this year will shorten the sleep period a tad. Where are you people located that schools offer so many difficult classes??? By the end of this year I will have taken 4 of 6 offered APs at my HS, as well as just about every possible Honors class (not many). I’m in Upstate NY just to give you an idea, and a somewhat small school (Class Size: 360)</p>
<p>You need to cut something out. You may not want to, but you need to. School and ECs aren’t worth killing yourself for. SAT studying CAN wait until the weekend, just do more than an hour at a time. Drop your clubs and such that are just fluff for college apps (like ones you have no leadership position in or have no interest in). I know I sound a bit rude, but you came to this forum asking for suggestions and it seems like you won’t take much of them. Sleep will improve your performance in everything you do. You need it. Trust me. </p>
<p>If you can’t get enough sleep over the night, 1st period English always provides a very solid sleeping environment. Doesn’t matter whether it’s AP or IB, I seem to get in at least an extra 30 minutes of sleep each class :))</p>
<p>I got around 7-6 hours of sleep every night as a junior taking 7 IB classes. </p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s just me, but I work really well I’m tired but not sleepy. That probably made no sense but I associate sleepy with physically wanting to sleep because your body needs it and tired is that your body doesn’t technically need the sleep but would like to sleep since you’ve done so much work today. Just the idea of “I’m so tired but I’m knocking out assignments left and right” makes me feel productive and accomplished. It also makes me more efficient because I just want to get the assignments over with vs. staying on my phone 2 hours before I do my homework because I have enough energy to procrastinate. </p>
<p>try doing homework doing lunch, also if u have any classes u dont really have to pay too much attention to in (like art, whatever) do some homework. i think most students get around 4-6 hours of sleep. I know some that get 3, but thats because their crazy and get back from all sorts of practices at 9pm. They’re not the best students though… Also, ive found that u can finish the whole/half chapter of history reading in a sitting (2-4 hours)</p>
<p>I don’t sleep either… My school is on a wacked up schedule where we go from 9:20-3:50, which means I have ec’s before AND after school, YAY Get to school around 7, don’t leave until after 6, plus I work nights for my mom’s business which is an hour or two a night. Add in dinner or a shower and I don’t even start my homework until around 9pm… Of course, I’m somewhat of an insomniac so at least I’m being productive when I’m not sleeping…</p>
<p>Well, I’m a senior who’s taking four AP classes along with some honors electives, that along with time consuming electives, and for some reason I get about 7 hours a night, Btw I can still maintain a social life. </p>
<p>Last year when I was a junior, I stayed up until around 1-2am, but I also had sports and clubs to go to. My advice would be to start drinking coffee, it helps you stay alert</p>
<p>I have problems with sleep deprivation, especially because of my school. It starts at about 7:15, which isn’t too bad, right? But it’s a Magnet School, so people come from all around the county. I am not close to my school, and public transportation makes the drive even longer because of the stops and the fact that some of the buses are shared with another Magnet School that is close to us. My morning ride is about an hour, so I have to leave for the bus stop at around 5:50. It also doesn’t help that I’m really involved and take a lot of AP classes.</p>
<p>I had a horrible time with sleep deprivation last year, especially during terms with AP Human Geography. It was mostly due to a combination of procrastination and a large workload. Every night I would only get 4-6 hours of sleep. I even remember this one instance I stayed up until 1:00AM finishing notes for APHG, but for some reason I couldn’t sleep until 3:00 or so, so I only got three hours of sleep. The following day or so I felt so groggy and disoriented during lunch I could barely talk to my friends because of how tired I was. :(( </p>
<p>You guys are literally destroying yourselves by not getting enough sleep. Sleep is the most important thing you can do for your body, and by depriving yourselves of sleep by even two or three hours a night you’re putting yourselves in awful positions to give your body the ability to recover from normal wear and tear.</p>
<p>A lot of my friends do this to themselves and I said that this year I’d drop all of my extra clubs that I really don’t care about and just try to decompress and go to sleep as early as possible. It’s not healthy to get less than 7 hours of sleep a night, especially while you’re still developing.</p>
Get to school around 7, don’t leave until after 6, plus I work nights for my mom’s business which is an hour or two a night. Add in dinner or a shower and I don’t even start my homework until around 9pm… Of course, I’m somewhat of an insomniac so at least I’m being productive when I’m not sleeping…</p>