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There are at least a few in every college dorm: students who seem to exist in their own time zone, in bed hours before everyone else and awake again at daybreak, rested and prepared for the morning's first lecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Larks and Owls: How Sleep Habits Affect Grades | 6/10/2009 | See Source »

...study, psychologists at Hendrix College in Arkansas found that college freshmen who kept night-owl hours had lower GPAs than early birds. Another group at the University of Pittsburgh revealed that poor sleep habits among high-schoolers led to lower grades, particularly in math. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Larks and Owls: How Sleep Habits Affect Grades | 6/10/2009 | See Source »

...range of the scores was from about 800 to 1,600," says Ackerman. "[But] within the study, lower-scoring examinees were not more or less affected by longer test lengths than higher-scoring examinees." (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress and Exhaustion May Improve SAT Scores | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

...Disposable Income." After researching this book, did your perception of him change? I couldn't fathom why someone would pay that much money for a single bottle. It was akin to buying a rare Picasso, and then taking out of its frame and putting it on your college dorm wall. What I found out later is the gentleman was celebrating, he had just made a lot of money on stocks. And I thought that was great because, clearly, it's a god-awful amount of money to spend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whiskey: A Travelogue | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

...players, barely worn clothes, lamps, couches and anything else that departing students didn't bother to take home. Every spring, several years' worth of accumulated goods are chucked into huge trash receptacles or placed on curbsides by harried undergrads. (See TIME's photos of the evolution of the college dorm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumpster Diving: Colleges Get Smart on Salvage | 6/7/2009 | See Source »

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