How Bad is Orgo/Bio Together?

wefregegefg
Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:19:07 +0000

How do you deal with the lack of sleep? Does it become natural after a certain amount of time?
Umm, well, this is an interesting question. When I took Gen Chem, I was awful with sleeping since i wanted to study a lot and have a lot of fun at night, so I stayed up until like 10am sometimes hangning out with friends and studying. I was very sleep deprived and drank a lot of energy drinks. (This is really funny since if one of my friends read this post, they would know who I am immediately haha)… So when I took gen chem, i basically did not get a healthy amount of sleep at all. This is a very bad thing, they don’t lie when they say your immune system goes down. I got sick all the time. It was pretty bad. So don;t go that insane.

Last year (orgo/bio), i would typically get around 6-7 hours of sleep to maintain that schedule, which isn’t that much. To be honest, I struggled with sleep, I kind of got sleepy a lot when I studied, but what I started realizing is that its nice to take short naps (5-20 mins, usually 5) twice a day. I don’t think you should base your study schedule so closely to what i did though, because a lot of my friends called me a freak because of my schedule, and it wasnt really that healthy. One of my friends, who did better than me, and probably has a more rational sleep schedule, would sleep early and wake up earlier because she couldn’t handle the lack of sleep. I just couldn’t bring myself to study so early. (she still got ~7hrs) But some days, when you’re really sleep depived after a lot of nights studying, you just take a nap in the middle of the day.

Lesson: you should probably not follow my example here.

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Also, all nightering can be tough, i drank a lot of energy drinks to stay awake, and usually after you all nighter you want to sleep at least two hours during the day. When i all nightered, i would sleep for 45 minutes, before a test, but that can be really really risky and scary haha. A lot of people don’t stay up like that, but I think it can be really really helpful when you want to get a good grade.

also would you recommend to not join a frat?
I don’t know if I can help answer this q. I never partied, or joined one, so I don’t know what its like time commitment wise. But I think that you should probably definitely join one, because it will help you have a social life, and you’ll be sad if you don’t have anything in college besides studying. Plus, I’ve found that when you are more busy with other non-school related activities, it helps you focus more when you actually have to study, whereas, if you only have studying for a long period of time, you tend to space things out more and be less efficient, so I’d probably join a frat if I were you.