The Morning Person

The midsems approach!! For those of you who are unfamiliar with what they are, it’s the exam that you never thought would ever come and you didn’t notice it coming, and thus, you aren’t quite prepared for what they have in store. [more on this later]. But, I decided that I have to come up with some clever way to battle the biggest demon ever: sleep. Now most of my college never sleeps during this ten days, and many mock me for allowing myself my five luxurious hours of sleep. But this time I was determined to come up with a way to sleep more and still try to accomplish the same amount. Here are some of my findings:

What many and I used to believe was that the best thing that you should be doing is to push yourself on overdrive and let the pressure take over and control you. This led to things like extreme stress, acidity and severe tiredness for me. Also people are cranky and most people will refuse to sleep hoping they’ll get a few more words crammed in. I find that ridiculous now.

Now however, things are different. I have started sleeping at 8 in the evening and waking up at 2. A good plentiful six hour sleep that is practically unheard of. Then I have the whole morning ahead of me. When I wake up, the serenity and quiet helps me do more without any distraction. Then at 5:30 in the morning, I go for my usual 9 km run. While I used to go in the evening, going in the morning is real great fun. The suckass weather of Kharagpur actually is bearable. I have an amazing breakfast. I couldn’t ask for more. And then around the afternoon take a small nap of about two hours (eight hours of sleep… gosh) and then I’m back in the game. OK. maybe it doesen’t work quite as well, but it is great for kicks.

Well, none of this implies I’m getting any studying done. For starters, I have a midsem in a few hours and I’m writing a blog post with funky graphics depicting stereotyped iit routines(though those looked real funky they were breaking the layout. you can still view them here and here). Ok. I really should go now.