How Not To Get Sleep

[On the topic of Sleeping]
S: You have a test tomorrow, why don't you sleep?
E: I'll sleep later. If I sleep now, I'll sleep at one.
S: And if you sleep at twelve... you'll sleep at twelve?
E: Yeah--I don't know.

Sleeping Tips From The World's Weirdest Insomniac

Don't:
"I get more work done if I don't sleep at all."

Wrong-o. Lack of sleep leads to crankiness, disorientation and so much more. Take this from someone who has personally experienced disorient. When Professor Aaron Wheeler let out the morning CHM139 class ten minutes too early on a Tuesday, I thought it was a Friday. You can't imagine how the rest of the day felt to me. Anyways. Trust me on this one; if you get enough sleep, if you manage your time well enough -- you'll feel perfectly fine. Time management is key, to be honest, and there's no other way to put it. Excess sleep here makes you groggy; lack of sleep there makes you irritable and confused.


Do:
"Clear your mind of everything possible. Temporarily."

On a personal level, thinking of chemistry or math (the usual side-effect of finishing homework, a test, or an assignment) will have you in super-thinking mode when you're fast asleep and in a comatose like state. If I do recall, the number pi popped into my dreams a couple of times and several reactions followed me in my semi-nightmare. It's not pleasant. If you go to sleep restless and full of 'work', you won't get any sleep done. So do think of puppies, flowers and bluebells -- or other. Just completely wipe your mind of what you've learned for the day (temporarily only!) and zonk out. That's the best way to do it. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Sometimes.


So yeah. Don't take my word for it.
You can try to Redbull a night away and see how you are the next day...
Or you can pick up the pace the next day and get some well-earned sleep.
Your choice. Your life. You choose, I guess.

BIO150: Term Test 3 and 3 cups of coffee.

"Uh, let’s get back to the test please.
What mathy stuff do I need to know?"
-- Prof James Thomson (Study Guide)

I think after the term test, I'll be posting something like "How To" or "How Not To" -- it'll be fun for me and a great way to alleviate stresses caused by the BIO150 test (tomorrow) forget about the miserable CHM139 test (I don't know how many of you checked your marks, but wow; that was probably the worst or best move -- depending on your mark). I haven't checked mine yet and I plan to keep it that way. Why do that to yourself before two major and upcoming tests? Be logical, folks.

I think the first of my "Hows" will be "How Not To Study," which I'm so good at doing. The bad-method of studying, I mean (which can sometimes be nonexistent, which is also very terrible). But for tonight, I think a good 3-cups of coffee (in spaced intervals -- not like what I did the last time, which was 2 huge mugs in 1 hour, which was a tremendously terrible decision) will suffice.

Till 2:00AM then!
Huzzah.