“You need to appeal to their intellect,” she said. “They responded because they saw that correlation. They saw [that] if you get that extra hour of sleep, this is what happens in your brain, what happened to that athlete.”
On many college campuses, the biggest obstacle is a deep-rooted culture of sleep deprivation macho; for both the cool kids and the smart kids, it seems, the thing to brag about is how little sleep you’re getting, not how much. Rebecca Robbins, a Cornell graduate student, has researched how students talk about sleep, and she found that more than 80 percent of the time, it was in negative terms.
“Kids in the coffee line will brag, ‘I got two hours of sleep last night,’ almost like it’s a competition,” she said. “If that’s all you hear as an adolescent, you begin to think these types of behavior are normal.”
- Extron AV Switching, Streaming, and Control Systems Aid Higher Learning at Idaho’s First Medical School - June 1, 2021
- Extron XTP, Streaming, and Control Systems Empower Point Park University’s Varsity Esports Program - June 1, 2021
- Extron NAV Series Delivers AVoIP Throughout Allied Health Veterans Hall at UNC Wilmington - June 1, 2021