Value Of Sleep In College

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

Central Idea: That sleep is good for you and you should get your eight hours of it!

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

Last year, I joined a working group with MIT’s MindHandHeart initiative focused on wellness. The working group is comprised of 15 MIT staff members and me working together to dramatically shift the sleep culture of MIT. This year, I stepped into the role of Undergraduate Co-Chair of the working group. In the fall, we published a 23-page document outlining the barriers keeping MIT students from experiencing a lifestyle of healthy sleep, as well as recommendations for faculty, staff, and peers to help encourage and empower students to prioritize healthy sleep habits. We are currently planning a Sleep Initiative to be launched in the spring of 2017 with the focus of raising awareness of the importance of healthy sleep. We’re planning to involve giveaways of sleep tools such as sleep masks and ear plugs to support students on their journey to healthy sleep. I believe that with technology and awareness, we can convince not only MIT, but college students around the nation, that sleep is for the

Sleep as a whole is an extremely critical factor to human health , especially the well-being of full-time students’ due to today’s growingly time-consuming education system. Sleep plays an essential role in mental and physical health, as well as overall well-being. It is clear that sleep is crucial, however, who has the time for the recommended 8 hours of sleep a night, as a minimum? Full-time students especially are at high-risk for sleep deprivation – which has very damaging consequences. These consequences range from weight gain, memory issues, high blood pressure, poor balance and much more. A review of 16 studies have even shown that sleeping for less than 6-8 hours a night increases the risk of early death by about 12%. This information

Most college students spend their time up all night studying, and they regret it the next morning when they are struggling to stay awake from the lack of sleep. Along with this many students nap during the day to make up for the loss of sleep. Many studies have found that napping can actually improve moods, health, and academic performance. This is shown in different studies from surveys, to testing different reactions and moods. All the way to actually providing students with a place to nap. Napping can increase academic performance, mood, and have a positive effect on health. All of these being reasons why people should nap.

All of us are aware about the importance of sleep in our lives. In fact, people that don’t get enough sleep at night may experience a variety of health issues in the long run. Unfortunately, students find it as a hard task to sleep about 8-9 hours a day because they have to wake up early and go to school. This creates a tremendous impact on their physical and mental health.

Thesis Statement: When the projects, exams, and extra-curricular activities start to pile up on one another it seems as though there is not enough time in the day.  This is when college students tend to lose precious hours of sleep and the consequences can be costly.

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

When students arrive on campus for their college orientations they watch PowerPoints and receive pamphlets about drugs, sex, and alcohol. There is one thing, however, that colleges may be forgetting to inform their students about – sleep. College students, especially freshman, are bombarded with academic troubles, health concerns, depression, and anxiety. One may not realize that the miracle cure for this, sleep, is something that doesn’t require paying for counseling or pharmaceuticals. It is recommended that college students get an average of nine hours of sleep a night (How, 1). College life is practically made for maximum sleep deprivation. A combination of new freedoms, loud residence halls, unbalanced schedules, and unhealthy food followed by alcohol and anything with caffeine in it. College students must realize that they must get an adequate amount of sleep or it can lead to health problems and dangerous situations.

In college, students put their sleep schedules through a whirlwind of changes. Whether to pull an all-nighter in the library or to socialize with friends, students lose large amounts of sleep and stay up way past their “bedtimes.”

Walk into any college classroom and you will see the same situation: students and professors alike with giant mugs full of caffeinated beverages, coffee and coke being the most prevalent. If you look closely at the students, you will see huge bags and dark circles around their eyes, at least one-third of the class will be nodding off or staring in a daze; this state of being is not due to the content of the lecture not being stimulating, but due to a lack of sleep. A combination of late nights studying and doing homework, early morning workouts and eight am classes, in addition to long days filled with work or involvement in various clubs all act together to cause a case of sleep deprivation for more than half of the college community. There

There are only twenty four hours in a day there is a race for time and many are willing to sacrifice whatever it takes in order to complete or fulfill their needs. Today most individuals decided to give up sleep; this isn't just a problem within college student. Every single individual has sacrificed sleep and faced sleep deprivation in order to complete a homework assignment, chores, or finish up paperwork from work. However, sleep is essential for overall health and wellbeing. Sleep deprivation is when an individual does not meet the requirement of sleep one should be getting. About 40 million Americans suffer from 70 different sleep disorder (American Psychological Association). There are many debates about how many hours of sleep a