When registering for classes for the first time as a high school senior, you probably thought, “I woke up for school at 6:30 a.m. every morning; getting up for an 8:15 a.m. class is no problem.”
Fast-forward, and you’ve skipped half of your classes because you couldn’t roll out of bed in time. Even if you try to avoid morning classes for the upcoming semester, at some point you’ll have to take a class early in the day. Here are some ways to stop hitting the snooze button, wake up feeling fresh and alert, and have enough time to shower:
Have an obnoxious sounding alarm:
If you wake up to the soulful and sassy voice of Beyoncé every morning, those tunes won’t take you out from under your covers and to class. If anything, setting your alarm clock to the radio or to play your iPod, will lull you back to sleep (unless you set it to heavy metal of course!) Instead, set it to that standard alarm clock noise. If you have an iPhone, trying setting the alarm‘s sound to “Alarm.” It’s probably the most obnoxious and annoying setting there is, and it will be sure to startle you during those early morning hours.
Put your alarm out of reach:
That snooze button is awfully easy to reach. Chances are you have had those mornings where you hit snooze 10 (more like 20) times before you have to go to class. Instead, leave convenience behind, and put that alarm clock across the room. This way you have to physically get up and get out of bed to hit that snooze button. After just once or twice of getting up you’ll be fully away and ready to get the day rolling.
Have a consistent sleeping schedule:
College life can be a bit all over the place at times, and so can our sleeping patterns. After pulling a few all-nighters and getting eleven hours of sleep the next day, your bodies natural sleeping schedule will be completely out of whack. This is a major reason why many students find it hard to fall asleep at night and hard to wake up in the morning. As much as we all love sleeping in on the weekend, since most of us barely get an Z’s during the week, it may not be the best for the body.
“When people sleep late on weekends, they revert to their natural phase-delayed rhythm,” explains Jean Matheson, a sleep-disorders specialist at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York in an article for Popular Science Magazine. Therefore, sleeping all day during the weekends make it harder to wake up early on weekdays.
With the help of these three tips, you’ll be up and awake instead of passed out in your bed all day. Get up, go to class, get the grades, and stop sleeping your days away. You’ll feel a lot more productive if you start your days right.
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