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Naps are great. Mandatory nap time should be a thing
I'm not good at writing responses on here. I was agreeing with you.Yeah I definitely realize it's necessary for some people to sleep <5 hours/night. I meant to target my post more towards the undergrads who, when it comes down to it, don't really *need* to function on such little sleep. I wouldn't hold it against anyone, but if you can sleep more, I'd definitely take it over trying to squeeze an extra couple hours of studying in right before an exam.
+1Hence why I said correlation vs causation issue. That's the nature of having many uncontrolled variables. I've seen the study discussed before. It's likely that a good number of the people sleeping excessive amounts had underlying health issues leading to that amount of sleep, not the other way around. There's no reason (that I've seen) to think that otherwise healthy individuals are shortening their lives by getting 8 to 9 hours of sleep.
~6-6.5/night as a med student. Ideally I try to get 7, but it takes me longer to get to sleep than I'd like. I'll add that I know numerous med students that get around 4-5 hours per night, but they also regularly take naps. You gotta do what you gotta do.
If you actually worked with the authors of the paper, I'd be curious to know if they took naps into account in that study or any later ones. It asks people how many hours they sleep per night, which makes me assume they didn't measure any sleep occurring during the day since they never mention it...
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There is a good pool of evidence that dysregulated sleeping patterns, particularly those required of shift work, can be dangerous, however, raising risk factors for everything from cancer to cardiovascular disease.
Anecdotally, breast cancer rates in my old department of over 120 people that worked rotating shifts were astronomical. **** cancer.True. I wonder if there is a study like this done with nurses as they are a huge population that all have the occupation, which would limit several variables such as socioeconomic and education level.
I know that feel.I've been trying to get 8 lately, but senioritis + procrastination is making this very difficult.
Does everyone on here have a GPA of >3.6
I'm actually a little jealous. I wish I could do vet school and get an MFA at the same time.MFA in Creative writing, here I come.
Oh, don't worry. You probably have a better GPA than me, nothing to be jealous about. I wish they had MD/MFA programs. That would be the best. Because I have no clue when I'm going to get an MFA.... after residency?I'm actually a little jealous. I wish I could do vet school and get an MFA at the same time.
Probably not after this semester Hard to keep the motivation going when you know you've gotten into vet school.Oh, don't worry. You probably have a better GPA than me, nothing to be jealous about. I wish they had MD/MFA programs. That would be the best. Because I have no clue when I'm going to get an MFA.... after residency?
It's true. I have 7,000 words written so far. Hopefully I can get 50,000 by November. How's your writing going?Probably not after this semester Hard to keep the motivation going when you know you've gotten into vet school.
One of my writing professors pointed out that you don't need an MFA to write or publish (though it does occasionally help with the publishing part). And there are always writing workshops you can do online, or communities (similar to SDN) you can join to talk to other writers. For me it definitely wouldn't be feasible to get an MFA, if I still wanted to, for a good long while. I'll have loans to pay off and all that.
I have a couple of published stories. Right now I'm working on a book, I'm about 4 or 5 chapters in. Not sure on the word count, just that is 35 pages double spaced. I'm hoping to get a good chunk of it done before August. Good luck with your writingIt's true. I have 7,000 words written so far. Hopefully I can get 50,000 by November. How's your writing going?