So, lately I have become a morning person. There are many benefits to being up early in the morning and going to bed early at night. Let me go through some of the details.
I woke up at five today, and exercised/stretched for an hour. In order to do this sort of thing in the morning, you have to make time for it before classes, so being a morning person is convenient. It gets the blood pumping for an invigorating educational day, plus prepares me to be sitting down most of the day without feeling such an urge to stretch/go running. It's also nice because then I can shower right afterwards.
When I was getting ready, I was the only one in the bathroom the whole time I was in it. That felt like my parents house, when I was the only one waking up for high school that early. (I felt like I wasn't sharing a bathroom, when in reality I shared it with ... like 25 other girls.)
When I went to school, I really felt like I owned the place: like that was my driveway, my front yard, because there was a nice layer of snow and only a few or so people had left tracks in it. That made it feel like it wasn’t as commonly-used of a walkway as it really was.
When I got to the math lab at 7:30 am, it was empty. Being so quiet and in an academic environment, it was a very efficient hour of studying. Only a small amount of people came in after me (before I left). It was so empty, I bet I could have sat in any section I wanted and no one would have told me to move. I could even sit in the upper-level math sections if I wanted, in that cool mysterious corner. And, since I normally wouldn’t have been on campus that early, it felt like I was getting ahead: bonus catch-up time. Even if I work the same hours on homework as I do being a night-owl, it had a good, positive psychological effect.
Last but not least, once places like the math lab shut down, or TAs hours end, that is when I am tired enough to go to sleep. When my hours of wakefulness line up with the open times of campus resources, life seems so much easier and convenient. Not to mention, in the mornings a lot of things are better service, like little to no wait time or line to get help from TAs. It's wonderful.
These are all very good reasons to be a morning person--which I used to be (I used to get up at 4:45 all 4 years of high school).
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I also have a hard time going to bed early. And I like sleep. So loving early mornings plus late nights plus sleep definitely doesn't add up to a nice easy sum. :)
I know what you mean. I was a morning person all through high school because we had early morning seminary and i'm grateful for that now because I feel as though I am more productive that way. I agree with what Amy said though... I tend to have late nights which doesn't mix well with early mornings (but i'm too good at making up for the time over the weekends with little cat naps, or my favorite- Sunday afternoon naps). Its gotten to a point where I physically can't sleep past 7:30 am. I constantly feel like I need to be on the go!
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