By Nina Earle
There are a lot of things that become more important once you leave home and go to college. Some of them are the easier things that come with adjusting to school; things like learning how to write an essay or making it to your classes on time. Others can be harder, such as learning about how to take care of yourself. These are things like how you do your laundry or routinely going to the gym. I would argue that the most important of all these is learning the ability and power of taking a nap.
Naps gain a strange power once you get to college, with all the new freedoms, and are able to make your own schedule. With your own schedule, you get to choose and deal with the consequences of when your classes are and the hours that you choose to sleep. No matter how responsible you are about your sleep, sleepiness will always chase you. There is a superpower that being a college student unlocks for you that a lot of people don’t really think about. You have the power to go back to your dorm after your last class and fall asleep. It does not matter if it is in the morning, the afternoon, or even the evening. It doesn’t even matter if it is 7:00 PM. At the end of that day everyone reaches the point where the brain needs to turn off, and that is the moment where a nap can change the day.
