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TAKE ME AS evidence: I nap all the time. At least once a day. Sometimes, I snuggle up in my covers two or three, maybe four times a day and analyze the inside of my eyelids. On weekends, when I am stuck inside reading all day, I don't even get up between naps. I just roll over and pick up my book until I fall asleep again...
...nap whenever I am home--before lunch, after dinner, between classes, after the news, before I write a paper, while I'm writing a paper. More often that not, my after-lunch naps and my pre-dinner naps run into each other...
...favorite time to nap is before class in the morning, which is, of course, right after I wake up. I get dressed, have breakfast and read the paper. No matter how late I get up in the morning, I still end up with 15 or 20 minutes with nothing to do. There's no reason to go to class early. Why should I sit in Sever reading "Come to the Kroks" and "My T.F. asked me out" over and over...
...know what most people do with this extra time; the normal thing is probably to pick up a book. But my philosophy is that I am going to forget anything I do at the beginning of the day, so I might as well forget that I took a nap. Then I won't have to count it in the grand tally of naps for the week...
...unlike the rest of the country, they are really exciting. I don't think there's much to this. Most Harvard students have lots of opportunities to take small seminars which are really exciting, but most choose to take really large lecture classes where they can sneak in a nap or two every now and then...