College Clocks

Every college is in its own little time-zone.  It's some kind of weird Twilight Zone time-warp thing that ends in no one getting any sleep ever.  Things just start late in college and I really don't get it.  I mean, what about 9:45 PM says "Gee, wouldn't it be great if we went to a Zumba class right now!?".  I don't know about normal people, but I don't really want to go to things that don't even start until 10 or 11 at night, especially when I have class the next day.

There are people in the dorm that I have never seen asleep.  Ok, that sounds creepy - like I seek out people to watch sleep.  But seriously, I have always gone to sleep before these people and gotten up after them.  I spent a year and a half as an insomniac and I got more sleep then than these people do now.

Things just start late here.  This wouldn't really be a problem if things didn't also start early.  I can't go to a 10:00 PM church service that lasts for two hours, do homework for an hour, and get up the next day for an 8:00 class.  Maybe some people can but those people have more Adderall than I do.

So pretty much, you have to pick between sleeping and going to everything.  Pick like one school night a week to go to things late at night and sleep the rest of the time.  I promise that if you don't go to everything, you will not become a social pariah.  No one will even remember you not being there unless you routinely incite rebellion or stand on a soap-box and give Preuss-like lectures.