Word: sleeps
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...Preacher Man,": "The only one who reached out to me/ Was a crack-headed teacher man." By the show's the end, the sun was just sinking on the Pacific Ocean, leaving independent-minded revelers enough time to party and still get their pre-Oscar beauty sleep...
...Harvard students not only regularly pull all-nighters for papers or parties, but we also boast aggressively to each other about how little sleep we need. Relative degrees of lack of sleep constitute a main stain of Harvard casual conversation—something we can all “understand.” Peers, professors, and club leaders can sometimes reinforce this culture further by expecting top-notch work, accepting only grave illness as a reason for lateness or inadequate quality...
...more often than not, we as individuals are the primary culprits of our sleep deprivation. We load up on too many classes and activities, factoring in sleep—if at all—as an annoying afterthought to be squeezed in. No one makes us pile on these commitments, but anything less feels “below average.” It takes a courageous (or utterly detached) Harvard student to risk “inferiority,” especially in the name of sleeping well. So when we look around and begin to consider the Harvard sleep culture...
...this efficiency-driven environment, sleep is viewed as a time-waster demanding minimization. The rare night of more than six hours of good sleep leaves us with a nagging sensation that we could have better spent our time. When weighing the marginal utility of an hour of sleep against powering through the rest of that Ec 10 problem set, you know which option always wins. Even if all those graphs and data have evaporated from our sleep-starved brains the next week, at least we got a check plus...
...know the facts. Sufficient, regular sleep is a vital part of life. Chronic sleep deprivation can never be a means to our ends. Well-rested, we might even be able rejuvenate much of the Harvard experience and our lives. Lectures would feel more stimulating, our papers would be more refined, and our conversations with friends would better remembered. We would look, feel, and act better in every sense of the word. And all we have to do is to dream it, eight hours a night. Paul G. Nauert ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies...