Enough With the Oversleeping Already!

Picture this.

It's 7:56 a.m. You blink your eyes open and notice that the light is different than when you usually wake up. You quickly roll over ad check your cell phone and realize what time it is.

Let me interject here to tell you some things you should know at this point.
1. You have a project due at 8 a.m.
2. It takes you about 10 minutes to ride your bike to class.
3. If you are 15 minutes late, you are officially counted as absent and absent people cannot turn in projects because THEY ARE NOT THERE.
4. There is no late work allowed in college.

You deduce that the 4 hours of sleep you got caused you to sleep through both of your alarms. You gasp and bolt out of bed, somehow managing to make it out of the door by 8:01. You open the door to class at 8:09, breathing heavily, and everyone turns around and laughs at you, including the professor. This is a very good sign. It means you are not absent. It means they understand. It means you are welcome to join their little critique circle once you tack your project to the wall.

That was Monday. Today was pretty much the same story. I didn't have a project to turn in and I got a little more than 4 hours of sleep, but I still slept through both alarms. That did not start happening until the end of spring quarter last year, so I don't know what's up with it starting so early this school year.

Getting to bed earlier is not the solution to this problem because I have to be up late a few nights each week for RA stuff. I will just need to schedule naptime into my day. It'll be like kindergarten all over again.