Health

Sometimes, staying awake in your afternoon classes seems almost impossible, especially if your brilliant neighbors decided to have an all-night Guitar Hero tournament (dorm rooms have notoriously thin walls). It’s 2:30 p.m., your morning coffee has just worn off, and you find yourself slipping in and out of consciousness during your American History lecture. What do you do?

“When people think of boot camp, they think of Marines sloshing through mud and a drill sergeant in a big hat yelling at them,” says Lori Smith, the fitness facilities director at Fort Benning in Georgia. While that picture is a bit of a stretch, she adds, “You see some of that in the army.”