Beep beep beep. That’s the sound of the annoyingly loud alarm clock that goes off every morning in the majority of American homes. In today’s day and age our everyday lives are sped up to keep up with the new way things are getting done. Twenty four hours is not enough time any more for one day. Plenty of Americans plan a schedule that comprises of twenty four plus hours in a day. Sleep plays a huge role in how humans function on a daily basis. College students specifically struggle heavily with receiving the right amount of sleep. They just simply are not getting the healthy amount of sleep. While people sleep they regenerate their energy and their body recuperates from the previous days stress on the body. I believe that students at Cal …show more content…
These pods can serve as a place for students to take a nap or a longer rest between classes. Other universities have included sleeping pods on their campuses and the students have been using them. Research shows that sleeping for just twenty minutes is better than taking a nap for say an hour. This is because the stage where people receive the best recuperation is in REM sleep, which is usually achieved about 6 to 8 hours into sleep. Sleeping for only an hour tricks your body into thinking it got more rest than it actually did, for this makes people wake up tired even though they just took a nap. Bottom line is students need sleep and from a personal point of view from just walking around campus, I can see that students are tired even when it is midday. Some students are even sleep deprived for the whole semester, or better yet the whole entire school year. Once sleep deprivation is active it is very hard to get out that hole because sleep is something you cannot get back, time just keeps on …show more content…
It is hard to measure because you can never be sure if suddenly that student is receiving the right amount of sleep. One way we could try to measure the impact of the solution is to have the students of Cal State LA take another survey. This survey can consist of questions regarding whether they feel that the sleeping pod improved their production in a day. This project can serve plenty of the students at Cal State LA and could be true that it can help every student. I say this because some solutions to mental wellness problems in colleges can only help a certain group of individuals. Say for example the issue is for depression and someone made a plan to solve the problem of depression for students. This can be a great cause, but it can only be used to help the students that are suffering from depression. Sleep affects every single human and every human has to sleep. This means that obviously way more than just a small group of individuals are being affected by this problem. This is a solution that can help almost every
In order to function normally, “adequate sleep is a biological necessity” (Austin 34). College is a transition for many students, and without prioritizing many can become sleep deprived. There are various reasons that college students could become deprived of sleep. Reasons include loud roommates, sororities/fraternities, late night jobs, and procrastination. Additionally, a student could be struggling financially or academically, and this could be possible causes for keeping one up late at night. Little to no sleep could affect how young adults function leading to multiple effects. Depression can be a result of not getting enough rest, and the “longer this
People often overlook the importance of sleep, when sleep is actually necessary to survive. “Poor sleep can contribute to weight gain, headaches, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, an impaired immune system, and attention deficit disorder” (Lai, Wei-Shin). Over the past century Americans are consistently getting less sleep than needed due to multiple different factors. I can personally relate to not getting a good night’s sleep and facing the consequences of sleep deprivation. Overall, sleep is more important than we think when it comes to a healthy lifestyle.
Every college student experiences it: that moment of deep regret when they realize that they took “Thirsty Thursday” a bit to the extreme and Friday comes along and they feel as though it is impossible to wake up for that early morning class. Not to worry though because there is a life-saving nectar invented specifically for this circumstance -- or so most college students think at least -- and this nectar is none other than coffee. This notorious cycle is repeated by most college students most weeks and few actually consider how this cycle is actually affecting not just their current state but also their entire physiology as well. One physiological cycle that is greatly being affected that most students do not even know about is the circadian rhythm. Circadian rhythms are a nearly twenty four hour cycle that controls the physiological, behavioral, and mental qualities. These qualities range from locomotors activity, which means it can affect coordination and muscle strength throughout the day. Also, the release of hormones is circadian driven, for example, melatonin, which when released causes the feeling of sleepiness. Even hunger is controlled by the body’s rhythmic clock. The key to identifying how the average college students’ circadian rhythm is affected is by observing their sleep pattern. As mentioned, circadian rhythms affect the release of melatonin, known as the sleepy hormone because this hormone’s release induces sleep. By having cues that advance or delay the circadian clock then directly corresponds and affects the physiological cycles of the circadian rhythm and thereby affects sleep. Other than drug induced cues, there are numerous other factors that affect the circadian rhythm as well. The primary and most influ...
...mportant that people know what can happen to them if they don’t get enough hours of sleep. I choose this topic because I felt that it was both interesting, and entertaining.
According to an article in The Atlantic based on a study shown, many students bordered on “pathological sleep”, which is a neurological disorder based on excessive or no sleep.
Though there are many facets to the subject of sleep, our team has decided to focus on the vital role sleep plays in people’s lives, specifically college students, as well as the numerous methods that can be used to make sleep more effective. Research has consistently proven the importance of a regular sleep schedule. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute promotes this idea, and offers several tips for getting enough sleep while leading a busy life.[1] For instance, it helps to keep the same sleep schedule on weeknights and weekdays. Also, avoiding heavy exercise and artificial bright lights within an hour of going to sleep ensures a more restful sleep. This is especially true for devices like computers and cellphones, the light of which interrupts melatonin production, thus disrupting sleep. Avoiding heavy meals, alcoholic beverages, nicotine, and caffeine within a couple hours of sleeping helps prime the body for a more restful sleep, as well. In fact, the effects of caffeine can last
Additionally, sneaking in a nap during the day can boost student’s mood by getting rid of sleep-deprived irritability. Many students’ will drink coffee for a midday reboot, however, consuming caffeine in the afternoon can have a negative impact on your nighttime rest. Napping is a natural way to restore students energy, so why not provide student’s with the opportunity to nap for 45 minutes? Taking a nap during the day can be one option to treating sleep deprivation. According to Sara C. Mednick, a sleep expert and author, “You can get incredible benefits from 15 to 20 minutes of napping.”
Research shows that sleep is a necessity in order for someone to be able to perform at their maximum potential. College students are no exception to the rule and are often at a greater risk to suffer from conditions that accompany sleep deprivation. Regardless of the time period, a college student must be well rested in order to perform at his or her best in terms of physical performance, memorization capabilities, and test-taking abilities. Also, without adequate sleep, the person will be more susceptible to illnesses, both mental and physical. In conclusion, I believe that sleep deprivation among college students is extremely common and has a direct effect on how well that student will perform or feel.
Schools should refrain from using foam lunch trays because it contributes to the earth’s ongoing environmental problems. As Lynh Bui from the Washington Post writes, “Los Angeles Unified, the second largest public school district in the nation, switched to compostable paper trays in August. The change got national attention after middle school activists strung up a 30 foot tower of foam trays in a tree to spotlight waste.” (www.washingtonpost.com) Thus proving that the amount of foam trays has lead to buildups of them in the trash which end up just laying there.
While points, claims, and statistics may be found within all of the sources used for the research, the sheer amount of referenced studies and works within the “Sleep-Wake” paper lends weight to it’s usefulness as a reliable source. One of the otherfactor of sleep and its affect within the college community. Three sources varying in criteria and usefulness were found that related to this subject and were studied. sources, “College Students try to Cheat Sleep Needs”, a college newspaper, offers basic facts and elementary assumptions such that could be found within any biology textbook or encyclopedia. These references are to such things as sleep cycles and sub stages and the general consequences of an out of balance sleep cycle. The study from the Biological Rhythm Research writers, however, hints at previous studies and findings that “several factors, such as social and academic demands, part-time jobs, [...] affect the sleep-wake cycle of college students.” but then only states the findings of a particular study, and does so in...
Many times people think they can accomplish more if they could eliminate so much sleeping time. However, they are only hurting their productivity if they lose sleep. Two articles deal with the issue of sleep deprivation. The College Student Journal published an article about the grade-point average of college students and sleep length, while U.S. News & World Report produced an article dealing with the lack of
If you have never owned an electric blanket, you really don't know what you are missing! If you have a large comfy bed, get yourself a king size electric blanket that will keep you toasty during the cold winter nights. Electric blankets are perfect for cold the weather areas of the country where if you heat your house all night, you can really run up your utility bill. If you have an electric blanket, you don't have to heat the entire house just to keep warm at night. This makes a lot more sense to save money than heating up all the rooms at night. Why would you want to spend a few dollars every day to heat your entire home at night, when it would only cost you pennies every night for the blanket and it will still keep warm all night. When
I tested my topic by going around and asking 10 kids some survey questions like, “How they made up their lack of sleep more at night?”, during the day, or in the morning. Most of the kids either sleep more at night or sleep during the day to make up their sleep. Another question I asked then was “Dose lack of sleep affect then?” More people marked sometimes, other than yes if affected them or no it didn’t affect them. More people checked no on “Dose lack of sleep affect your appetite?”, and very few check sometimes. “Do you think too much sleep is bad for you?” Believe it or not, but more people thought that if could never be too bad for you. The kids that filled out the survey most of them usually got 5-8 hours of sleep on school nights. The kids that filled this survey out were all in the age range of 14-16.
College is a time of extreme stress due to societal and parental pressures. College students have expectations they have to live up to in order to fulfill and satisfy the needs of both their parents and society. Stress is expressed through a variety of symptoms that can be hazardous to student’s physical and mental health. With such high expectations to do well during college, students may become sleep deprived, which impairs mental capacity, but sleep deprivation is only one of a vast array of symptoms. Stress is present in all aspects of life and there are multiple causes of stress, especially, during the college period which may present itself through many symptoms, but with stress, there are also various coping methods to help students deal with it.
In 1998, Anton Anderson, English teacher of Greenwich (Connecticut) High School, founded the Power Napping Club, allowing weary teens a 20-minute nap before they attend their extracurricular activities (Pg. 3 Paragraph 20). Scientific studies confirm that naps benefits people with unusual work schedules such as, astronauts and specific types of doctors (Pg. 2-3 Paragraphs 14-15). For example, Doctors in training and emergency room doctors work long hours and as a result, the doctors are sleep deprived. People from Spain and Greece celebrate the Siesta Tradition, Siesta meaning: nap. This is when the people of Spain and Greece consume a large meal and then take a nap in the middle of the day (Pg. 3 Paragraph 17). And so on, naps prevent people with unusual work schedules from being deprived of sleep and it is tradition for people across the