stress and sleep

Colleges & Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>yea guys, so i think we've all realized how stressful life has become- something like a college process has showed us how tedious, nerve-racking, and exhausting (referring to all the tribulations of life) our existences are- we are aging prematurely before our own eyes. many people lose sleep thinking about cornell and college as a whole, but i know i am getting much better sleep because of it, and i'd just like to share why.</p>

<p>I know life is about hardwork, constant 110% effort, and competition, but those are precisely the things that reduce us to machines. each and every day i wake up and it seems like i just barely survive through it. The day is my time in which i worry- about school, about the future, about the competition, about trying to just lay everything i have on the floor, about just trying to find why i'm here. in the last few weeks concerns about cornell have come somewhere in between. </p>

<p>the night is peace though. don't you all EVER wish you could just be smoking a pipe and and drinking a mug of ale outside your little cot in a valley in between about 12 or 15 green mountains somewhere where no one can find you, or looking out of a droopy eye at a dawn on a tropical shoreline from a hammock, or tiptoeing across a thin strip of land that is the barrier between two lakes so clear that you could see down straight to the bottom? i've had these kinda dreams lately, and frankly, i think sleep has been what keeps me from going gray. Underneath my eyelids, i could care less about college, calculus, or volunteer work. If I could impart any advice on you nerve-bombs (cough drinkingmilkallday cough) [and I'm not qualified to give much advice!] I would say: if you want to keep your humanity, keep from becoming a programmed bot, keep from losing what makes you a human and lose what makes you a mine waiting to explode from all this pressure that life is putting on you: sweep all of it under the bed for the night and rest- deal with it in the morning.</p>

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<p>hahah, i got my sense of art and life back from being sucked into broadway show of RENT. ever since then, i've been just singing songs all day long. ;)</p>

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<p>haha, that has to be good</p>

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<p>Well, all true. But how much time do we actually have to sleep? I don't think about my future, not at all. I don't worry excessively. I don't think per say. Yet I still don't have that much time to sleep. Too many applications waiting to be done. Sleep? Wha?</p>

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<p>lol, i know what you mean. I'm happy with 6 hours these days- and the doc's say we need at least 9!</p>

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<p>i'm just stocking up on the sleep these days.</p>

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<p>"smoking a pipe and and drinking a mug of ale outside your little cot in a valley in between about 12 or 15 green mountains somewhere where no one can find you"</p>

<p>that is more or less my life goal. well put.</p>

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<p>wowwww bball that was like, the expression of my life that i could never have articulated with wordsss! lol! hey guys, im new to this board, but ive been LURKING for months. Just recently ive become ADDICTED to reading every single post so i thought, hey, why not finally JOIN!? (esp. seeing as the decisions come out in what? 4 days??) I'm really gonna be loosing it haha. (I'm applying to CAS ED) so yeah here goes nothin..........</p>

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<p>welcome... you will be obsessed before you can handle it</p>

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<p>and you will come here whenever you want to procrastinate anything...ever...even long after you are accepted to Cornell....it will become as habitual as checking your email and visiting facebook, save yourself while you can.</p>

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<p>hahahahaha thanks guys, idk, it's too late i fear... ive been checking this thing obsessively for weeksss... and yeah it definitely serves as a channel for all of my procrastination haha</p>