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Hitting Snooze
"It seems as though there is no solution to my lack of sleep."
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By Tadina Ross
It’s one forty nine in the morning and I am typing the last words of my twelve page essay due tomorrow, while simultaneously practicing my Spanish verbs, as I type my name and social security number on my college recommendations due tomorrow, or rather later that same day. Staying up until absurd hours of the morning is not a rare occurrence for me, or any other teenager I know.
I am so occupied with after school activities so that by the time I get home, get settled, and have eaten dinner, it will be eleven o’clock and I have to start with my homework.
It seems as though there is no solution to my lack of sleep because everything else becomes important. Club meetings can’t wait; homework can’t wait; studying can’t wait my college applications due in three hours can’t wait; my growling stomach can’t wait. Nothing gives in, except for me. When I question this hassle, I realize that I’m working for a greater good; I will go to college with experience in work and stress. But if what I’m working for is even more stress and work, maybe I should reconsider the future.
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