In my first year of college, I pulled a lot of all-nighters—and not the wimpy ones where you go to sleep at 3 AM and then get a good 6 hours rack-time before going to class. No, I mean staying up until the sun rose and then going to class without having slept at all. I did this because as a Political Science major, I had a lot of reading to do. I have always been a good reader but a bit of a slow one, so that meant spending a lot of late hours reading and chewing ice to stay awake.
I remember one night I finished my homework around 4:30 AM. My morning class was at 9, and I knew that 3 ½ hours sleep would end up only being worse than if I hadn’t slept at all. The chances of oversleeping my alarm was also just too great. So, I made the decision to walk somewhere off campus and watch the sunrise. In my young man’s mind this was a good idea and I don’t know if I’d experienced a sunrise on my own before.
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