<p>i use my cell phone...set three alarms each 5 minutes apart...it used to work really well...eveyr 5 minutes id have to turn it off and id doze off less each time...but now i often still fall sounds asleep even after teh third alarm</p>
<p>That may be some kind of disease.</p>
<p>One night when I was cramming for a marathon of tests (I had 4 AP classes that day and they all chose that day to do practice AP exams for a very real test grade)... I realized that I was already short on sleep, and I would be finishing up at around 4:30 and go in early to ask some questions... so I had to max out my alarm potential for any hope of waking up at a reasonable time.</p>
<p>So first I took two standard alarm clocks, one radio alarm clock, my cell phone with max volume and a <em>siren</em> alarm-tone (louder than my alarm clocks), and to top it off I had my laptop set to blare music in my ear from 6:20-6:45.</p>
<p>6:20... the alarms start going off, I silence my laptop with a quick downward swipe on the screen, shutting it off. Another blow sent my 2 alarm clocks flying and knocked out their batteries (I should've moved em farther away), I had moved my radio alarm farther away but the outlet was next to my bed so I quickly pulled that and threw a study pillow at my cell phone and managed to hit the silence button on that too. </p>
<p>I need a foolproof system for those kind of nights... well any night where I need to get up early, I like the idea of putting valuables in front of the clocks so I wont be tempted to throw things at them, but I could always see myself destroying the said valuables in a desperate attempt to catch 5 more minutes of sleep.</p>
<p>haha i put the alarm at the door of my room, so if i walked far enough to the door already i wouldn't want to crawl back the same far distance back to my bed. no kidding it helps!</p>
<p>this semester i dont have class before 1. so i usually sleep until noon</p>
<p>Once you get here, waking up at 8:30 or even 9:30 will seem like way too early.</p>
<p>jf215 is my idol!</p>
<p>wow. this is so..SO comforting.</p>
<p>thinkjose1 is completely right...you may think now that getting up at 8:30 is a blessing, but it's not...</p>
<p>I have 9 AM classes 3 times a week, a 10AM and an 11AM...i usually have to get up at 7:30 on my 9:00 class days because i need to finish homework for the class...like now i'm procrastinating a close reading response...</p>
<p>I can't imagine waking up past 9:00 once (and if) I get to college. I've never needed an alarm clock. Instead, my heart-attack-before-I'm-twenty anxiety slowly creeps up into my dreams through the night, typically waking me up around 5:30-ish.</p>
<p>However, my school only starts at 9:00, so I pretty much pace around my room, go on the internet, etc. for about two hours.</p>
<p>Yeah, I have a problem, but whatever.</p>
<p>5:30...are you isnane?</p>
<p>i need sleep like a crackwhore need crack.</p>
<p>if my school started at 9 id wake up at 830...if not 840...god..530</p>
<p>in h.s. i used to go to bed around 12-1 and i'd have to wake up say 6-7 but in college most nights i go to bed 3-4 and wake up at 10-11 (im a big night person)</p>
<p>The earliest I have to get up for classes here is around 8:45 for a 9:00 AM class on wednesdays, and that's only once a week. every tuesday and thursday I don't have class until 12:00, and all my other days start at 10:00.</p>
<p>I'd probably put 11:00 as the ideal time for the first class of the day.</p>
<p>So I know when you guys have your first classes, but how many classes does a typical student have in a single day at UPENN? WHARTON?</p>
<p>Penn and Wharton are not acronyms...</p>
<p>Whartonites usually have on average 5 CUs spead over Mon-Thurs. Each CU is usually 3-4 (or more) hours of class per week, depending. Obviously it varies, but I'd say that is fairly typical. SEAS on the other hand...</p>
<p>Unlike HS, be more concerend with hours in class, not number of classes. Two hour long lectures is quite different from a three hour orgo lab.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>So I know when you guys have your first classes, but how many classes does a typical student have in a single day at UPENN? WHARTON?</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Considering I am a typical student at UPENN (CAPS LOCK), and know many students at WHARTON (CAPS LOCK), I believe you can take what I say as truth (not caps lock).</p>
<p>I'm a second-semester Wharton freshman:</p>
<p>M/W: 10am-3:30PM (30 minute break, 4 lectures)
T: 12pm-1:30pm (1 lecture)
Th: 9:30-1:30 (30 minute break, 1 lecture, 2 recitations)
F: 10am-11am (1 lecture)</p>
<p>Fall 2005:</p>
<p>M: 10am-5pm (2 hr break, 4 lectures)
T: 3pm-4:30pm (1 lecture)
W: 10am-3:30pm (2 hrs break, 3 lectures)
Th: 8am-4:30pm (3hr then 2 hr breaks, 1 lecture, 2 recitations)
F: 11am-5pm (2hr then half hr breaks, 2 lectures, 1 recitation)</p>
<p>I did a pretty poor job of scheduling first semester.</p>