<p>I have heard many ppl say how they stay up until midnight almost everyday studying for exams and stuff. To me, an undergrad freshman who starts school in a week, this doesn't seem like a good idea. Did the current ppl who graduated or are graduating from undergrad do/did this often? I mean one can argue that it depends on their schedule of classes and how much free time they have and one's intelligence in previous exposure to the subject matter. I just want some comments if this happens frequently in college and/or med school.</p>
<p>It depends on their schedule of classes and how much free time they have and one's intelligence in previous exposure to the subject matter.</p>
<p>Midnight for me would be ridiculously early. And I'm a very, very bad student. But those video games aren't going to play themselves.</p>
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I love you bdm. In a strictly platonic way.</p>
<p>I don't know if it is just me, but I look at my schedule every single day and i say to myself, how will I find nay free time for myself. Then again, I may find time as I adapt to college life, but do most ppl wake up really early to study or do they find time during the day, here and there, to do review.</p>
<p>midnight is pretty early for me as well. 10-1 is primetime for me to get some work done.</p>
<p>Ditto. 10-2 perhaps, but that might need to get pushed to earlier as I have 8 am class everyday.</p>
<p>I also have an 8 AM class. I was thinking about waking up at like 7 and going to bed at like 10-11. What do you guys think of that? I am sorry, but isn't sleep necessary? I mean don't you need at least 8 hrs of sleep to do well. I may be speaking like a parents, but that is what I was always taught.</p>
<p>Necessary sleep thresholds vary a lot from person to person. I'm pretty non-functional on less than 7.5 -- which means I'm pretty non-functional most of the time. A neurosurgeon I know tells me he gets 4 hours of sleep a night when he's on vacation -- i.e. when he's sleeping as much as he could possibly want.</p>
<p>Besides -- it's college. Most of your classmates are drunk AND sleep-deprived. So being just sleep-deprived means you're already 50% ahead.</p>
<p>So the reason that ppl go to sleep at like 2 AM is not necessarily b/c they have so much hw and work to do but b/c they have other ECs and they may spend their time having fun, like playing sports, watching TV, playing video games, etc. This is mainly true in most colleges, whether they be cut-throat like ivy leagues or medium expectations like state schools.</p>
<p>Sorry for stealing your thread, but I don't care if I stay up to 2 AM as long as I have a social life. Do pre-med students have enough time for a social life?</p>
<p>Signing up for a 8AM class was your first mistake. I had 9 AM classes my freshman year and still didn't make it to half of them. Generally, college kids sleep later (1-3 AM is typical) and wake up later (10 AM or later classes are good).</p>
<p>Generally premedical students are NOT the hardest-working students on campus (that distinction belonged to engineers, at my school), but they're up there. So while there are some tradeoffs, it's not as many as most students here seem to think.</p>
<p>i go to sleep around 1230-1 and i consider that early
i was always early to bed in hs, but things change in college...</p>
<p>coming from a different perspective...I would say I went to bed by midnight at least 90% of the time when I had class the next day...heck, even on the weekends I hardly ever went to bed past 1 am. I just really don't like waking up later in the day, and would much prefer to get my classes over with in the morning than in the afternoon. So it really just depends from person to person....as long as you avoid staying up until 5 am playing video games almost every night, you should be okay!</p>
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<p>:( .</p>
<p>well obviously whatever you did bdm, it worked.</p>
<p>I usually stay up until 12-1.</p>
<p>It's okay to lose some sleep if you need to...
last year I went extremely sleep deprived for a couple weeks before and during final exams... I just had a ton of stuff; lab reports, homework assignments, essays, studying, lab reports, meetings, lab reports, contacting people about stuff, and even lab reports.
Afterward though, I was so burned out... it was terrible. This is how I felt:
:( :( :(</p>
<p>So now I try to balance it out more. It definitely helps that I start on 11 am most days, or even 2 pm on Tuesday! (orgo... my one and only tuesday class)</p>
<p>When I'm sleep-deprived, I feel :mad::(:confused::mad::(:confused:</p>
<p>You know, ysk's emoticons are actually more accurate.</p>
<p>I too am angry/cranky/irritable, unhappy/depressed, and sometimes confused and unable to think when I'm sleep deprived.</p>
<p>I feel the same way. So how do you ppl find ways to balance everything out? Do you take on less activities? I mean I will be a freshman and I want to do research, but it appears that I wont have too much time for it b/c I am taking Molecular Bio (3 times a wk), Chem I ( lecture is 3 times a wk) w/ lab & recitiation, Calculus II (3 times a wk) w/ recitiation, Writing (2x a wk), and seminar. Any advice. Thanks.</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining b/c this is like the avg schedule for nearly all pre-meds everywhere. I just want advice about ECs and time-management to ensure enough sleep.</p>