Word: sleeps
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...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...
...According to the National Sleep Foundation, college-age students should be sleeping between seven and nine hours each night. Sleep is vital as it allows the body to physically repair tissues as well as effectively process thoughts and memories. In order for these processes to work frequently and effectively, sleep must be regularly scheduled and tied somewhat to the patterns of natural light; varying sleeping and waking times by more than two hours a night—the nearly universal practice of sleeping in on weekends—can lead to clinical anxiety issues...
...These factoids have long been available to students on the UHS Web site and through laundry room pamphlets with superbly campy photos. No doubt, every call from home includes some sort of parental plead to “get more sleep.” So why don’t we balance our lives around something so obviously important? The pervasive problems of chronic fatigue at Harvard are perpetuated by a student culture that dismisses and denigrates sleep...