{"id":5635,"date":"2019-11-07T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2020-03-09T23:45:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T16:45:46","slug":"the-tricky-balance-between-study-and-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/the-tricky-balance-between-study-and-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tricky Balance Between Study and Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"

A \u201cChicken or Egg\u201d Dilemma, and How Students Can Fix It<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Story by: Jace Puckett<\/strong><\/p>\n

College is a precarious balance between students\u2019 social lives and classes; careers and exams; and, perhaps most importantly, sleeping and studying. Putting off study time can lead to long nights of cramming; conversely, losing sleep can cause students to crash instead of studying. It easily becomes a matter of \u201cchicken or egg\u201d\u2014which came first, and which causes which?<\/span><\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t uncommon for students to seek help with their study and\/or sleep habits: Jordan Easley, an academic coach at Austin Community College\u2019s San Gabriel campus, estimated that around 80 to 90 percent of the students he sees report poor sleeping habits in addition to poor study habits.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely make it a priority to make sure everyone is healthy, treating themselves right, and not burning out, because all of it is very interconnected,\u201d Easley said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHaving a job, being a parent\u2014which is also a job\u2014or being in school\u2014which is also a job\u2014they\u2019re all a form of obligation. I think that people give themselves the most leniency when it comes to schoolwork because they see it as something that is more flexible. \u2026 They tend to underestimate the amount of time and effort that it will take to complete an assignment, so I think that\u2019s the one [obligation] that gets dropped the most often.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, it\u2019s easy to justify losing sleep to study, according to an article on <\/span>Study International News<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cMost students probably know that depriving themselves from sleep is bad,\u201d author Sharuna Segaren, a senior education journalist at Study International, reports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut nonetheless they\u2019re willing to sacrifice sleep and as a consequence, health, telling themselves it\u2019s just for a short time and they can soon start sleeping 12-hours a day once the semester draws to a close.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To find a better balance between time spent studying and time spent sleeping, Danny Ugarte, an exercise fitness major at ACC, suggested separating classwork into daily tasks depending on when each assignment was due. He lamented about his misunderstanding of assignment deadlines:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had plenty of times when I thought that something was due on one day and it wasn\u2019t, so I ended up not sleeping that night and doing the assignment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Easley stressed the importance of time management and prioritizing. Students can determine what is the most pressing task at hand and complete it first so that they have more time for what matters most to them.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to know what\u2019s important to you. If your classwork is important to you, you have to make the time for it. If your work is important to you, you have to make the time for it. If your family is important to you, you make the time for it. Make your sleep and your health important to you, and make the time for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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