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...definitely be a good thing,” said Abigail W. Darby ’08, co-founder of the 226-member Harvard Facebook group “Nappers Anonymous.” “My moments of most creativity and brilliance come in the beginning stages of sleep,” said Darby of her own passion for napping. Co-founders of the South Bend nap club, Michael Duttlinger and Joe Spencer, explained the club’s importance in light of scientific research that shows the benefits of napping for students, according to the Associated Press...
...your twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth hour without sleep. Only sheer force of will and caffeine drive you from page three to page 20 in your 25-page paper. In the library, you awake suddenly in a puddle of your own saliva at 4 a.m. A “few winks” became a six-hour slumber...
...Every Harvard student knows too well these fatigue-sodden experiences. Such moments should remind us how our bodies can break down when we ignore our need for sleep. Yet, when Microsoft Word opens again and we see page 10 rather than page 25, all we feel is guilt or anger that we succumbed to sleep. Here we glimpse one of the most destructive pathologies of our student culture: Sleep has become just another extracurricular—and an undesired and maligned one at that...
...Most Harvard students do not have healthy sleep patterns. In this regard, we do not differ from most of our peers at other colleges. In a 2004 book titled “College of the Overwhelmed” Chief of Mental Health Richard D. Kadison of Harvard University Health Services (UHS) cites reports in a 2004 book titled that less than 11% of college students nation-wide were getting “a good night’s sleep” on a regular basis. Harvard, in particular, fosters an exceptionally insidious anti-sleep culture that compounds the conventional collegiate...
...While we cannot blame all our problems on a lack of sleep, many are certainly exacerbated by it and some are generated directly by it. Sleep deprivation and irregular sleep—as medical phenomena—connect to almost every sphere of student life. Lack of sleep can lead to depression, lack of intellectual concentration, weakened immune systems, and heightened anxiety, all of which can create dire consequences for intellectual and social life...