<p>im going to be an engineering student next fall (re: im not going to be taking any killer classes YET; atm just the basics, chemlab, chem, cal) and im just curious as to see what your sleeping patterns are!</p>
<p>usually in HS i would get around 5-6 hours a night (with the 8+ on weekends), which was very "doable" to operate nearly at 100%. but since summer has hit, im tempted to change that and go to "sleep and wake up whenever you do" mode.</p>
<p>im trying to resist! haha</p>
<p>i guess the point of my thread is to just see what your sleeping patterns are in college.</p>
<p>This semester, I generally went to sleep between 2am and 5am during the week (and stayed up all night about once a week). I had two 8am classes, so that was sometimes interesting. </p>
<p>On the weekends I would generally stay up until the sun came up, grab a bowl of cereal in the dining hall, and then sleep until 3pm or so.</p>
<p>i definately need more sleep than that. right now (i just graduated from HS) i get around 8 hours a sleep on most nights. I'm just the type of person who needs a lot of sleep to function well, and function best when i get consistent sleep (not making up for all the lost sleep on the weekend) i know i'm going to have to sacrifice a lot more in college...</p>
<p>I am frightened of what my sleep is going to do at Uchicago next year. I wont have to wake up as early but I will have more to do at night and I am a total night owl. I also procrastinate until late at night...</p>
<p>I might have to give polyphasic (aka uberman) sleep a try...but it frightens the hell out of me while tempting me. Maybe I can do it for just a quarter.</p>
<p>You'll find very strange sleeping patterns in college. </p>
<p>My freshman year I was up from 7am to 2am during the weekdays and did whatever on the weekend. I didn't party or stay out late and I typically got up before 10am on the weekends. I just finished my 4th year at a different school and I usually go to bed between 1am and 2am and got up at 8am. This fall I will need to get up at 6am. I never had an active social life so I found it easy to maintain a good sleep cycle but some people go way off the map with staying up until 5am and pulling frequent all-nighters. After 4 years of engineering I have never pulled an all-nighter (one more year to go).</p>
<p>I've attended two very different colleges but my current summer internship sleep cycle will be the same as my school one for the fall.....bed between 12am and 1am and get up at 6am. I haven't had steady 8 hours since 2001.</p>
<p>8 hours is too much for me. If I sleep 8 hours, I can't go to bed at the same time again the next night. I've found 6 to be about right for me. Usually I slept like 3-9 on the weekdays, and 3-10 on the weekends.</p>
<p>In high school I usually got like 3-4 hours at night, and 2-3 in the afternoon for a nap.</p>
<p>I also put off work till late. I'm trying to stop doing that, it's progressing slowly.</p>
<p>Right now in the summer my sleep schedule is like... 4-10. I have no motivation to get up in the morning b/c I'm not doing anything. That will have to change when I start summer classes.</p>
<p>During the school year, my sleeping schedule is absolutely atrocious. I sleep around 4-5 hours a night, then come home and sleep after class for awhile.</p>
<p>Now that it's summer, I go to sleep whenever I feel tired and wake up when I'm not tired anymore, which is amazing.
I didn't sleep at all last night.</p>
<p>man.. how can you guys sleep so little, and still do so well in everything?</p>
<p>during hs, i slept at least 8 hours a day, 9-10 hr during weekend.. now, i slept soooo much.. i usually wake up afternoon -0-:;</p>
<p>seriously, can someone tell me how to sleep less and still function WELL?? PLEASE.. recommend me some technique, books, or website about this 'sleeping less' skillz</p>
<p>Well, I haven't started college yet but my sleeping habits during school (especially senior year, for some reason) are really off. I'd usually stay up until 2-3am, wake up at 7 am for school-- then I'd come home, eat lunch, sleep from 2pm till usually 5pm. </p>
<p>I, too, am someboy who needs a lot of sleep in order to function. With that sleeping pattern, I would end up being really tired and lethargic partway through the day, so I'm working on my summer sleeping schedules.</p>
<p>I used to sleep very little (it was often a joke among me and my friends to guess how little hours I slept the previous night). Now I am trying to change that. Summer is a little different tho and I just wake up randomly in the night and can't fall back asleep. Like now. Oh well. I can make it on little sleep but I just don't like it b/c after pulling many all-nighters I just about killed myself and I now how it really hurts me to not get enough sleep (just not healthy at all) so I changed for the school year. You can make your own pattern it just takes a while. But it is possible.</p>
<p>At my school, the freshman are the ones who get the least sleep. After a while people seem to realize that being sleep deprived isn't really worth it. </p>
<p>If you make sleep a priority, you'll be able to sleep as much as you need to. It will just mean that other things (sometimes including homework) won't always get done.</p>
<p>I usually survive on 3-4 hours of sleep during the night, then I usually take naps in well....all my classes. My teachers didn't seem to care...I was still doing better than all those awake.</p>
<p>Ironically, last night is the first night in a LONG time I slept for more than 4 (12 in fact!). Only cuz yesterday was the last day of school for me :)</p>
<p>wow, kirst. That's like wasting half your life.</p>
<p>During the school year I got around 3-5 hours per weekday night. During the summer I get around 6 per weekday night. On the night from Friday to Saturday I'll sometimes get around 10 hours, and on Saturday to Sunday nights usually about 8.</p>
<p>During the school year, I usually sleep 12/1-7am, with an 8am class. Weekends I would go to sleep whenever to get my 8-9 hours sleep. This is less than I got in high school, but you will adjust to less sleep. That, and if you're busy you barely notice. Caffeine is good.</p>
<p>I was usually in bed about midnight at school, typically up before 7 for class the next day. Getting enough sleep got more important when I was leaving my room before 8 and criss-crossing campus until 5:30 (or 9 some days) because of classes, my job, and extracurriculars.<br>
I have this thing about not being able to sleep in too much on weekends...I was usually up by 9 or so regardless of when I went to bed. (I found weekend mornings great for laundry or work that required a lot of concentration). Contrary to common sense, crashing on the weekends to "make up" for lost sleep earlier in the week actually makes it harder for you to get good (albiet shorter) sleep during the rest of the week. (Same for caffeine...occasionally it can be helpful to help stay awake to finish something that has to be done, but in the longterm, it really screws up sleeping cycles...)</p>
<p>I got 8 hours of sleep in high school, but only my senior year. Before I had gone to bed at midnight or one, then woken up at 6 to catch a 6:30 bus... then senior year I had a car and first period off, so I went to bed at about the same time, or a little earlier because I had less homework (no Spanish classes makes a big difference), but woke up at 7:30.</p>