Quote from shaggievara
Well it's hard to wake up at 6AM (Yes, I have to set my alarm to go off at 6, 6:30, 7, and 7:30 because I'll just go back to sleep) when you didn't get home from work until 3AM. I usually can't even fall asleep without serious medications until 4 or 5, if even then. So going to a class without sleep for 24+ hours can have a very negative effect. Maybe if the class wasn't 3 hours long it wouldn't be so bad.
Sorry for not understanding your circumstances, I get a knee-jerk reaction when someone complains about classes and times, its always the same group of people who tend to come to classes with a hangover. You however are much better than that. I'll try to be in a less hateful mood next time I post ^^
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Quote from BoxBox
ahahaha, another troll ehh? Don't worry, I am not angry. rahhh!
People usually sleep at 12am because we all have sh%t load of homework/projects/assigned readings. I don't know if you noticed yet, but you are suppose to READ before you go to class and that gets real time consuming....especially if you are reading something you have not yet learned. I have many friends who are chemical engineers and they have a lot of homework. Usually they sleep very little as well. Maybe your institution is more lenient and that's why you have the choice of sleeping early, but other people like me don't. Of course if you aren't trying for that 4.0....you can always not study at all.
I might have you know I got a distinction and am fully sponsored by a company to study chemical engineering based on my high school results. Saying that I don't know anything about studying, reading and classroom preparation is quite an overstatement. You have 2-3labs a week which goes to around 24-30ish hours a week? That still leaves an ample time for doing anything that isn't sleep related. Don't know what you call being sleep deprived is but I'm pretty sure I've been sleeping for 7hours for the majority of my life and that is pretty much all the time I need.
Most of the classes I take, I already have a fair grasp on during the first year and I only really had to do serious revision for say half the modules? Second year was a lot more in terms of the fact I don't know any of the modules. I also decided to take astrophysics which is a pet peeve of mine so I suppose that was pretty much marks in the bag. But just because I never have issues with sleeping doesn't say I don't bother with the actually education part of University, I just focus less on the partying part of University, which probably just makes me have that extra time to safely say that I've done the work, I can sleep now.
Edit: I did a completely different High School examination board which was much more vigorous and dealt with first year university level Maths Physics Chemistry and what not, so saying that my University is easier isn't the case, I've just done more in High School.
Last edited by Noobsrus at 10:47 am, Jan 29 2010________________
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