Yup, this is another one...

Cards4Life
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:50:33 +0000

If you’re a morning person, an 8 AM class will probably not be an issue for you. Arabic as an 8 AM may be a bad idea though purely because it’s probably a fairly intense class with difficult material. And a 4 hour lab that starts at 8 AM…ouch.

I was NOT a morning person in high school, and my one 8 AM class freshman year killed me. Sophomore year I took an 8 AM every day second semester, and I loved it. The first two weeks sucked but then I got into the habit of the schedule and it became natural. It’s nice to finish before noon, eat lunch, take a nap, then go to work or study or hangout. This fall I scheduled myself for 8 AM classes every day again and I’m excited.

The biggest problem that I found with a varying schedule was that second semester freshman year, I had an 8 AM on MWF and my earliest TR class was 11:30. So I’d get up at 7 MWF and 10:30 TR, which totally threw off my sleep schedules and my sleeping from night to night varied so much it made me miserable. I like to start my earliest class around the same time every day.