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My alma mater has a saying: "sleep is for the weak". If you go to a university with that slogan, here is one more reason why it is foolish. If you want to lear
by afarrell 10y ago
My alma mater has a saying: "sleep is for the weak". If you go to a university with that slogan, here is one more reason why it is foolish.
If you want to learn effectively and work efficiently, take care of your body and take care of your brain.
- piannucci 10y agoHey, my alma mater has that slogan too... oh, hi, afarrell.
- throwaway6497 10y agoWhich schools are these?
- jpm_sd 10y agoMIT
- csallen 10y agoI once read that collective sleep deprivation is "not a thing." After graduating from MIT with a particularly grueling and sleepless final semester, I slept 12 hours a day for two weeks straight. (I normally sleep 6-7 hours before waking up on my own.)
- Hydraulix989 10y agoIt's a shame what these "top" schools can get away with because of the sacrifices some people are willing to put themselves through to get a coveted degree.
- Helmet 10y agoCan't argue with the results. http://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=176016&p=1159581 http://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=176016&p=1159581
- antisthenes 10y agoI'm confused. Where are the sleeping habits of the people in the list you linked? Oh, right, there are none.
- afarrell 10y agoSome of it is the school's fault. Some of it is the fault of the particular student culture at the school.
- afarrell 10y agoHow do you feel, in retrospect, about 6.004? On the one hand, amazing class that takes you through multiple layers of abstraction. On the other hand, why oh why did they set the labs to be due at 6am? (Of course, you could justly ask why oh why my sophomore-year-self didn't exercise discipline and cut myself off trying to improve my beta.)
- cbsmith 10y agoI always believed that line is intended to be sarcastic.