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By Teresa Weaver
THE BATTALION
Only a week into the semester, some students are set
tling down and getting serious about their classes. Others
have chosen to hang on to the sunny weather and sum
mer feeling for as long as possible, conveniently forget
ting to do homework until the end of September, when
the first round of tests begins. Then it’s crunch time and
suddenly everyone is at the library or in his dorm room,
staying up all night to finish reading a chapter or com
plete a project.
1 hough all-nighters may seem like just another part
of the college experience, sleep deprivation can cause
emotional and physical damage to students, said Dr. Ann
Reed of the A.P. Beutel Health Center on campus.
“Not getting enough sleep puts stress on your immune
system, and you will get more infections,” Reed said.
“You are more likely to get in car accidents or cause
injury to yourself because you are tired.”
Greg Propst, a sophomore biomedical sciences major,
felt nauseous and shaky after pulling two all-nighters in
a row during finals last semester.
“It took so much out of me 1 was completely exhaust
ed over the break," Propst said. “But it didn’t affect my
grades; it probably was the reason I did so well.”
Robert Stagni, a senior accounting major, has had a
lot of experience w ith sleep deprivation over the course
of his Aggie career. Although he now sleeps seven hours
each night, last year he was sleeping a mere three hours
at some points during the semester.
“When you're tired, it's hard to concentrate on things
and you can’t keep a normal routine,” Stagni said.
Stagni said he never thought his lack of sleep affected
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Students may not be that concerned with sleep depri
vation because it does not cause problems to health that
students associate with a lack of sleep, Reed said.
“Students never come into Beutel and complain of
not getting enough sleep,” Reed said. “But 1 see Corps
cadets come in for strep throat or a cold, and as soon as
they sit down in the waiting room, they pass out. They
just aren't getting enough sleep.”
Capt. Christy Gantt, a cadet training officer, said new
changes were made this year to fix the problem that has
been linked with the Corps for years.
“We ehanged the daily schedule eac|i Corps outfit
follows so that the cadets now get approximately eight
hours of sleep each night,” Gantt said. “The Corps rib
longer has morning training ,and so now the day begins
at 6:45 a.m.”
Jake Neal, a sophomore
agriculture major in compa
ny K-2, has already noticed
the difference.
“As a freshman I had trou
ble staying awake in elass, and
my grades definitely suffered,”
Neal said. “1 was so tired
sometimes I would fall asleep
standing up during march-ins.
So far this year has definitely
been better.”
Although professors call out
cadets more often than other
students for falling asleep in
class, Gantt said, cadets are just
the most recognizable sleepers
because of their uniforms.
The cadets are not the only
students on campus who feel
the pressures of school interfer
ing with their sleep. Kameron
Gainer, a junior communica
tion major, said lack of sleep
slows her down and makes her
stress worse.
“You try to get enough sleep,
but if you’re taking a full load
of classes, involved in a student
organization and work full time
to pay for school like me, it just
doesn’t work out,” Gainer said.
“I just try to catch up on sleep
during the weekend.”
Reed said an average per
son needs seven-and-a-half
hours of sleep a night, but that
everyone is different, and that
number can vary from three to
12 hours depending on the per
son. A good way to determine
how much sleep you should be
getting is to remember how much sleep you had during
high school, when your stress level and work load was
much lower, she said.
Stagni said that for students to stay on top of things,
they need to be organized.
“It has to start with organizing your time. If you
can plan things out, you can plan on getting sleep,”
Stagni said.
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For college students who are less than enthusi
astic about planning out hours of sleep each week,
Reed reminds students to pay attention to when they
are tired.
“If you have to stay up, there are short term solutions
like caffeine, but if your body isn't getting the sleep it
needs.rit will force you to sleep, no matter what you are
doing,” Reed said. “In the long run, there is no way to
get around not sleeping.”
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