Sleep!

So, I finished up my research paper rough draft tonight. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. My topic is sleep deprivation on the Siena College campus. I feel compelled to share that as I wrote the paper I could not have felt like more of a hypocrite. As I read over my first rough draft I found what felt like a hundred errors and it dawned on me, I wrote the paper while feeling the effects of sleep deprivation. On Monday night, in preparation for Tuesday's class, I was working on my rough draft until about three in the morning. When I stopped working on it I got on my computer and surfed the internet and hung out with friends until about 4:30. I finally went to bed and was up at 8 later that morning. My entire paper I talk about how students need to take the personal initiative to get their work done during the day and sleep at night. . .I'm probably just as bad as anyone! It really is a problem for me, and when everyone reads my paper, it will become obvious that it is a problem for a lot of people. Why do we become such procrastinators in college? Well, I should say that I've always been this way...but that's neither here nor there.

Anyway, what I meant to say when I sat down was that I really feel like I took something good out of this assignment. Lack of sleep is something that has a ton of negative effects, but is something that can be avoided. After doing the research I plan on honestly trying to cut down on my procrastination and go to bed at night--not the early morning. It's too bad that I came to this realization with finals looming where the amount of time sitting in front of the books will be the highest this year. It's never too late to make a change, though.