Sleep Is A Key Component Of Everyday Life

Are you tired and having trouble paying attention in class? Focusing on tasks at hand? Or just completely being overall unproductive? The average college student is deprived at least two full hours asleep each night according to “College Tidbits” a website designed to promote healthy lifestyles and productivity in daily college life. These results were pooled from multiple surveys done over hundreds of campuses throughout the United States. Today, I hope to persuade you to fight the statistics and get those extra two hours of sleep. Do what it takes to get the full seven to nine hours that is suggested by the Mayo Clinic. I will discuss two problems. Why college students are not

Sleep deprivation is a serious concern among college students, who are "among the most sleep-deprived age group in the United States," (Central Michigan University, 2008). It is important to study the causes of sleep deprivation, or sleep disorders, among college students. According to Park (2009), "dozens of studies have linked an increase in nightly sleep to better cognition and alertness." A study by Central Michigan University (2008) found that sleep deprivation can lead to poor academic performance, impaired driving, depression, and behavioral problems. There are several variables that may affect sleeping patterns among college students. One is genetics or biological issues. It is highly

In addition, one article states that “Regular and restful sleep is essential for good health, sleep helps you feel less stressed and helps you maintain a healthy diet. Students often have very stressful lives with activities such as going to class, working out, etc (“Despite”). Finally, the consequences of sleep deprivation in a student's teen years can be very serious. Teenagers spend most of the day in school, when they have to wake up for school so early, then be there all day, it can lead to them not getting enough healthy sleep. With this lack of sleep they are unable to get the most they can out of school. With little sleep students can not learn as much and could therefore not know important things necessary for life. Teenagers don’t get tired until about 11:00, so they don’t get enough sleep because school starts so early in the morning (“Effects”). Overall, many students do not get as much healthy sleep that they need. Without sleep, they can not learn as much as they could be with a good amount of

Students are in search of an advantage over the crowd and go to vast lengths to achieve it. Sleep deprived students are the effect of high expectations. Schools such as Silicon Valley brought sleep experts to promote shut-eye. Frank Bruni states that back when he was in the 1980s, there was too much sleep, although today’s students are taking more AP classes, multiple extracurricular, and apply to every Ivies. The author lists numerous books written on the topic of student learning. In college, campus students face anxiety along with depression, they cope with minor setbacks that seem big. They also deal with panic a major factor in “acing the exam, burnishing the transcript, and keeping up with high achieving peers.” Wanting to pull their children off the fast track parents worry about getting them stuck behind. The author believes students should be given wiggle room to find passions, develop interests, and bounce back from failure. Bruni states kids should “tumble gently into sleep, which is a gateway, not an impediment, to dreams.” Students are exhausted from their daily schedules and lose sleep due to it, Bruni proves his point by discussing personal experiences, statistics from other schools, and works he’s read.

Specific Purpose: Sleep and college students usually don’t tend to get along very well. Sleep and college life often bump heads due to stress, coursework and social activities. This speech will give the students useful information about dangers of not getting enough sleep and also hints on how to get a better nights sleep.

Many young people forget the importance of sleep in their lives when they begin their college career and should be reminded of how necessary it is. It has been estimated that "40% of

Indeed, while although college students can finish up assignments and finish up tasks by staying up, it can lead to more negative turn of events than positive, college students should have better sleep hygiene for a better academic life because they are unable to memorizing information to long term memory, unable to function properly in the day and tend to fail classes, and college students tend to have more anxiety and a negative mood towards people. These negative effects can lead a college student to fail classes and live a stressful life. If more college students understand their bodies and the importance of sleep and how it can actually benefit their well-being, it can lead to less stressed out faces and the overwhelming smell of coffee

Sleep is as essential to people as food and water. It is what recharges us after a long day, and gives our bodies a chance to heal and grow. So why don’t teenagers get enough of it? Teenagers today are faced with this devastating problem, called sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is when a person does not get enough sleep, which can rapidly lead to deadly health effects (Pietrangelo 1). This problem is serious, especially for adolescents, and should be addressed in an environment where teens feel fine with facing the severity of the issue. The most pressing teenage issue today that Dearborn Public Schools should address in the classroom is sleep deprivation since sleep deprivation causes lifelong mental health issues, it creates severe physical health problems,

Almost every day high school students are waking up around six o’clock in the morning to get ready for school, some even earlier than that. Nearly every morning students are waking up without adequate sleep. If sleep is one of the most essential needs of the body in order to grow and develop, shouldn’t we be more aware of how much it affects students everyday performance? The ways in which students are affected by sleep-deprivation is precisely why school needs to start later.

In the article, “Teachers, Students, and Sleep,” Dave Stuart addresses the importance of sleep. As a teacher, Stuart strives to motivate his students. The core of his article is this: “If my students sleep better, I bet they’ll self-motivate better.” Stuart’s article is organized in the following way: an introduction, seven powerful facts about sleep, ten ways on how to get “better sleep,” and a conclusion. Throughout the article Stuart cites Maria Konnikova and Shawn Stevenson, authors of books that focus on sleep. Avoiding substances before bed, sleep consistency, regular eating and sleeping schedules, and frequent exercise all are ways to get better sleep. Some facts Stuart configured together about sleep were the importance of sleep

Sleep is the body’s chance to repair and rejuvenate itself, and, without it, students can suffer immensely and become more susceptible to mental illnesses. As humans grow older, it naturally becomes more difficult to wake up at earlier times. It has been widely agreed that each person should get between eight and ten hours of sleep, but, according to a poll by the National Sleep Foundation in 2006, more than 87 percent of teens get considerably less than the recommended amount of sleep (Richter). Students are staying out later to participate in extracurricular activities and to work on homework in the hopes that they will be able to attain a slot in the college of their choice. For students with earlier wake up times, this also means a more compressed time for sleep. During sleep, we go through cycles of deeper and lighter sleeper. Not only are students getting less sleep, they are also not given the opportunity to go through the sleep cycles as they should. Oftentimes they are being ripped out of bed at times which deprive them of some of the deepest, most productive sleep time (Richter). Coincidently, this deep sleep stage is also when dreaming occurs. In essence, students are not being given the opportunity to

It is no surprise that college students aren’t getting enough sleep. We always have something to do. If it isn’t the plethora amount of homework we receive on a weekly basis, then it might be our extracurricular activities keeping us up, and let’s not forget about working! It is known that the average amount sleep a human needs is about 8 hours a day, but as college students, we are lucky to get at least 5! Sleep is important for numerous reasons: It makes us feel rejuvenated, strengths our immune system, puts us in a better mood, and its essential for normal cognitive and motor function. In this observation, I will be discussing the insufficient amount of sleep Rutgers students get while attending school. The lack of sleep is a public health

Colleges promote growth in all areas of a student’s life, but the main goal of higher education is academics. However, students hinder their abilities to excel academically by getting insufficient sleep.

“Sleep helps repair your body, reduce stress, improve memory, and keep you healthy. Lack of sleep can literally affect every aspect of your life. “ (Sheehan, Unseth and Xiong, 2010, P.2) After knowing all those bad impacts of sleep deprivation, students should get away your bad habit of staying up late and oversleeping considering having a better health. Let’s change the lifestyle and maintain a healthy life!

It is a troublesome fact that college students do not get a full eight to nine hours of uninterrupted sleep.  In fact, "on average, most college students get 6 - 6.9 hours of sleep per night, and the college years are notoriously sleep-deprived due to an overload of activities" ("University of Georgia," 2014). This loss of sleep can account for failing classes and lower grade point averages. What contributes to the weariness for students that dorm is the "residence hall life at UA makes it hard even for students trying to sleep – constant late-night chattering, visitors coming and going, early morning cleaning crews running their vacuums" (Pope, 2012). With the raucous that goes on in the dorms, between maintenance, and sharing a room with someone with different class hours, this