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College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« on: December 13, 2018, 03:26:52 pm »
 College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
Zachary Petrizzo - George Mason University •December 13, 2018
 

‘Everyone deserves 8 hours of sleep!’

Causes advanced by democratic socialists are many: tuition-free college, universal health care, a federal jobs guarantee, a “living wage,” and much more.

Now they’re adding a new “right” to the list — the right to eight hours of sleep per night. Apparently, gone are the days when pulling an all-nighter is a rite of passage for college kids.

A group of democratic socialist students at the Georgia Institute of Technology has launched a campaign demanding that campus leaders allow for eight hours of sleep every night.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/college-students-demand-eight-hours-of-sleep-per-night/
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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2018, 03:29:13 pm »
Back when I started undergraduate school some 53 years ago, we had a solution to that problem.  We went to bed earlier.  Now that isn't as sophisticated as today's snow flakes would like, but it works. *****rollingeyes*****

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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2018, 03:46:20 pm »
Next thing you know, servicemembers will be demanding the same....oh wait.

This crap just keeps getting weirder and weirder...end of days has gotta be on the horizon soon.
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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2018, 03:53:39 pm »


This crap just keeps getting weirder and weirder...end of days has gotta be on the horizon soon.

Major economic collapse,  plague or an asteroid strike or some other calamity will happen in our lifetime and there will be a major reset.  We are due for another World War-China is my bet.

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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2018, 03:55:19 pm »
They can sleep when they are dead.  Losers.
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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2018, 07:11:40 pm »
Who is stopping them? I seem to recall scheduling my own classes and class times. If these people still need a mommy to tell them when it's time to start op partying, playing games or getting off Facebook they shouldn't be wasting space in college.

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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2018, 07:31:00 pm »
Who is stopping them? I seem to recall scheduling my own classes and class times. If these people still need a mommy to tell them when it's time to start op partying, playing games or getting off Facebook they shouldn't be wasting space in college.
Exactly. If I pulled an all-nighter to study for finals, it was my choice. Otherwise, I could have gone to bed at 8 p.m. if I so chose.
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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2018, 07:43:52 pm »
Exactly. If I pulled an all-nighter to study for finals, it was my choice. Otherwise, I could have gone to bed at 8 p.m. if I so chose.

Did you have a full time job?
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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2018, 07:48:27 pm »
They can sleep when they are dead.  Losers.

Exactly.

Sleep is over-rated.

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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2018, 07:54:42 pm »
Did you have a full time job?
That's completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, but since you asked: I worked 20 hours per week throughout my eight semesters of college and still earned a 4.0 GPA for most of those semesters.
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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2018, 07:57:37 pm »
That's completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, but since you asked: I worked 20 hours per week throughout my eight semesters of college and still earned a 4.0 GPA for most of those semesters.

Do you think another 20 or 30 hours per week might have made things a little bit more difficult?
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« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2018, 08:04:32 pm »
Did you have a full time job?

Then they should scale back on the number of classes they’re taking. Or cut out the partying.   

And yes, actually, in my last year, when I got straight A’s on a full time class schedule I was also working 40 to 50 hours a week. 
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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2018, 08:12:20 pm »
Full time job combined with Full time class schedule equals fool time.
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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2018, 08:13:09 pm »
If they are studying programming, that isn't going to happen.
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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2018, 08:14:52 pm »
Do you think another 20 or 30 hours per week might have made things a little bit more difficult?
Also irrelevant. Did I mention I also played intercollegiate and intramural sports while attending school full-time, working 20 hours per week and getting straight As?

 The point is that how much sleep a college student gets is a matter of personal choice, self-discipline and - above all - personal responsibility. As Oceander said, a student needs to properly order his or her priorities. If you can't manage your schedule to fit in everything you want to do, then the schedule (and what you want to do) may need adjustment - especially if partying and drugs are part of the equation.

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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2018, 08:18:35 pm »
And yes, actually, in my last year, when I got straight A’s on a full time class schedule I was also working 40 to 50 hours a week.

There's a lot of people that just aren't as badass as you are. They could do a lot better in school if the cost of living wasn't forcing them to work their asses off. Too bad there's no way we could help those young Americans.
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« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2018, 08:33:03 pm »
Here we go again.  *****rollingeyes*****
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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2018, 09:03:18 pm »
The first line of the article just cracks me up

‘Everyone deserves 8 hours of sleep!’


Tell that to every parent of every new born baby.
Wait until they become parents.

They think College is hard on sleep???

Sheesh!!!

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« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2018, 09:05:24 pm »
The first line of the article just cracks me up

‘Everyone deserves 8 hours of sleep!’


Tell that to every parent of every new born baby.
Wait until they become parents.

They think College is hard on sleep???

Sheesh!!!

Some of them are parents trying to work and go to college.
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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2018, 09:08:34 pm »
Some of them are parents trying to work and go to college.
Most of them aren't.

Maybe the government really should be involved in helping those poor helpless sleepyhead students, after all:
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Michigan mom calls police on son who wouldn't wake up for school
by DAVE BONDY, WEYI

GRAND BLANC TWP, Mich (WEYI) — Crystal Towns has had enough with the morning struggle of waking her son up for school in the morning.

"I woke him up. He thought he was just going to not go and I said 'nope you're learning today boy,'" said Towns.

Towns struggled with her son, working to wake him up.

"He blamed his sister for not waking him up, and I had it. So I called the school resource officer to come pick him up. He wasn't bad, he just thought he was gonna not go to school again, said Towns.

Towns then grabbed her phone and called a school resource officer with Grand Blanc Township who came to her house and met her son at the door.

"I called [the officer's] cell phone and he answered and he came and got him, came to the door, knocked then told him "I'm here to take you to school and you are riding in the backseat" and they left.

Towns hopes this will serve as a lesson for her son and others to wake up and go to school.
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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2018, 09:43:16 pm »
There's a lot of people that just aren't as badass as you are. They could do a lot better in school if the cost of living wasn't forcing them to work their asses off. Too bad there's no way we could help those young Americans.

I'm glad you're finally realizing it.

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Re: College students demand eight hours of sleep per night
« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2018, 09:54:36 pm »
Sad. They demand they get to sleep at night, instead of doze off in class....

I got about 4 hours of sleep a night through my undergrad years, on average.
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« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2018, 09:55:41 pm »
Sad. They demand they get to sleep at night, instead of doze off in class....

I got about 4 hours of sleep a night through my undergrad years, on average.

Sleep cut into my bar time when I was in college.
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« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2018, 09:56:12 pm »
Most of them aren't.

Maybe the government really should be involved in helping those poor helpless sleepyhead students, after all:
School resource officer? Around here that is newspeak for the cop assigned to patrol the High School.
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« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2018, 10:02:31 pm »
I slept 8 hours a night in college....or however long it took the moderate street drugs to wear off.