making time to make time

[aamcnamara]

Okay, so that whole "oh no I have no time to write in college" thing?

Apparently, if I go to bed at 10, I can wake up at 6 fully rested. Which gives me a full hour before the dining hall even opens for breakfast, which still gives me an hour and a bit to eat breakfast before an 8:35 class.

Also, dressing gowns are very handy things for sitting around in the common room in one's pajamas because one doesn't feel like getting dressed at six in the morning.

Now if I can just a) remember this trick and b) hopefully get into the creative writing class I want to for next semester, I should be all set.

Comments

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

When I was teaching at a small, liberal arts, women's, Catholic college, it was not uncommon for one or more student to show up in a robe and slippers to my 9:00 a.m. Intro Psych class.

I'm told that this doesn't happen as much, now that the school has gone co-ed.

[epicrauko.livejournal.com]

Apparently, if you're willing to put up with feeling exhausted and being on an insanely short sleep schedule for a few days, you can also trick your brain into getting more REM sleep in fewer hours, leaving you more rested in 2-4 hours than the usual 7-8.


...but I've never felt the need to do such nor had the willpower to deprive myself of sleep based on a theory.

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

I would ask why you feel the need for a dressing gown, except that it must be getting a bit nippy there by now.

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

heh.

I never did that myself, but my slippers got quickly upgraded to outdoor wear the year I had an 8:30 am electronics lecture.

[aliseadae]

9:00 a.m. doesn't seem early when one has a 8:00 a.m. Anthropology of Science Fiction class. Though my friend, who is also in that 8:00 class, has work at 6:00 a.m. on the other days of the week.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Why? Why would you do that?

(Well, okay, Feynman? some other crazy physicist? put himself on a 30-hour day just to prove he could. But--crazy! Physicist!)

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Because I don't like my pajamas all that much, and because if there is one thing I have learned from Diana Wynne Jones, it is that dressing gowns are always necessary.

[comingin2day.livejournal.com]

90 minutes sleep mods/pockets of time; doctor's and astranauts have found it very affective way to feeling refreshed in a short amount of time.

It may have taken you a half hour or less to fall into sleep, but the time period is about right.