“All-nighter” culture is counterintuitive
- Apr 22, 2016
- 2 min read
As final exams week looms nearer, sleep-deprived students are dozing off in library cubicles, napping on the benches or grass outside and even catching a few z’s in their cars. Leading up to final exams, Panthers will be pulling night after night of studying into the early hours of the morning, living off endless coffee and energy drinks and power naps.
This opinion article was originally featured in PantherNOW and talks about how pulling all-nightsers can be detrimental to a student's health and education.
Check out the article’s excerpt below and click the link if you want to read the full story!
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Maytinee Kramer/Staff Writer
As final exams week looms nearer, sleep-deprived students are dozing off in library cubicles, napping on the benches or grass outside and even catching a few z’s in their cars. Leading up to final exams, Panthers will be pulling night after night of studying into the early hours of the morning, living off endless coffee and energy drinks and power naps. All-nighters are nothing short of ordinary, but the college experience is fueling a burnout culture where it’s normal, and sometimes even celebrated to forego sleep.
As reported in a study by the University of Alabama, approximately 60 percent of students receive insufficient sleep, and worse, 30 percent of college students confess that sleep difficulties have been “traumatic” or “very difficult to handle,” shows the American College Health Association.
There is a mantra that exists between sleep, grades and maintaining a social life, but many college students feel compelled to cut one out. It’s not necessarily a matter of being inefficient or procrastinating the day away, but some students really do have a lot on their plate. If sleeping more means doing less, then it’s only natural that sleep feels like the most dispensable of the three.
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Photo Credit: Maytinee Kramer
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