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Sleeping

Vitamin for your day, or pain in your neck

By Sol Kim

     Students in Korean Minjok Leadership Academy (KMLA) always have trouble with sleeping: their biggest enemy and, in the same time, their sweetest comrade. Students are always in thirst of sleep because they are all busy doing their work, finding the twenty four hours too short. However, sleeping is the key determinant of the day, because not enough sleep can cause a complete disaster the next day. It can also lead to health problems such as cardiac diseases and stroke, or in a high percentage, life-shortening. It is obvious that students need to sleep efficiently, and there are various ways of how to.

     Efficient time management: use remaining times efficiently. Remaining time here includes times before and after morning exercise, meals, and honjung. My roommate, 16^th waver Lee Jieun, always sleeps using her remaining time. According to her, it sure helps her not to doze off during classes. Napoleon was famous for this method: he even slept in the middle of a battle.

     Tools are important for good sleep, too. An annoying alarm clock is needed for a relieved sleep: one knows she will wake up because of the alarm. Also, sleep shades are effective. My two roommates, Lee Jieun and Min Jisun, both highly recommended the sleep shades. Since all three sleeps at different times, most of the time one need to sleep under the bright light, and sleep shade solves that problem.

     Regulated sleeping times are needed to be followed. It builds biorhythm, and thus helps one to have an organized day. The time is good to be early because at least six hours of sleep is required for healthy days. Twelve o’ clock is recommended because the sleep cycle repeats every one and a half hour, and KMLA students need to wake up at six.

     Last thing: no miscellaneous things before sleep! No internet surfing or chattering with one’s roommates because it will definitely delay her sleeping schedule. Those things are very easy to drive people out of plans.

     Sleep is something critical for one’s life, especially for someone in KMLA. It can work as a fatal poison for your days or, as a vitamin: always, keep your eyes on the troublemaker!