The past few days, since I have gotten back from fall break, I have experience a great problem. Every day after my classes I come back to my dorm just exhausted. The whole time I’m in class all I can think about is one thing, getting back, watching Netflix, and passing out into one of the greatest naps ever. Pretty much all semester I have been taking naps, but never this serious.

            It doesn’t take long, I hop into bed, select a TV show, and one or two episodes later……. HE GONE. Now this is nothing unusual, the unusual part is when I wake up. I guess it was about Monday I was taking my usual nap, when I did one of those things your brain wakes up but your eyes don’t. I was sleeping on my side, and had been for a while, so I decided it was time to roll over on my back. My brain sent the message down my spine to the rest of my body, but my body was all like “nah you trippin, I aint movin”. I was lying on my side unable to move, I knew it I was paralyzed. Once I realized I couldn’t move, I tried to open my eyes, Nope that wasn’t working either. I didn’t panic, mainly because I was half asleep, so I just went back to sleep and later on woke up as my normal functioning self.

            Ever since then I haven’t woken up paralyzed, but every day I wake up and feel as though I have been drugged or something. I wake up to my “half awoken” state, which I tend to hallucinate in, and think to myself that I am not in a normal state of mind. I feel as though I have just gotten my wisdom teeth taken out, not the pain or swollen cheeks, but the loopyness. Just yesterday I had only been asleep for about 20 minutes and I woke up feeling loopy, and I thought to myself “why are you on drugs it’s a Thursday afternoon you have an advisory meeting in 20 minutes, and conditioning later on.

            This is the first time all semester I’ve had strange occurrences while napping, I think I can blame it on the 6 A.M. work outs we have been having Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I would like to point out the fact that I am not a drug user I have just simply had my wisdom teeth removed. 

Everyone says that college is so much Work, and nearly impossible for student Athletes, but so far I haven’t been very overwhelmed. Of course occasionally you get a heavy work load with a paper due one day and a test in a different class the next, but as long as you divide up your work throughout the week you’ll be fine. Every day this week I have spent at least 4 hours at the field, from 6 until 10 every night, which means I usually don’t get back to my dorm at least until 10:30 because I have to get dinner from the cavern. Between class, classwork, and practice I always find a way to fit a nap in at some part of the day, and get my work done before practice, which allows me to come back relax and get to sleep before 12:30. So far this fall, my goal has been to get all my work done before practice every night at 6, which mean I need it done by five. Luckily the way my schedule is set up, my latest class is 11:50 and on Tuesdays and Thursdays 10 which allows me plenty of time to nap and get my work done.  Just the other day I decided that I would save a little homework for after practice, which was one of the most miserable things I have had to do since I got here.  

                As I sat down at my desk, roughly 10:45, exhausted from the day the last thing I wanted to do was a little bit of homework. I have a hard time paying attention to my work when I’m well rested, how do I expect to do a half way decent job on this after being up for 15 hours, having 3 hours of class 5 hours of practices, and most tiring a 2-3 hour nap. I slowly and sadly started my work, just thinking the whole time the many things I would rather be doing. I would catch my mind slipping away thinking about other things and not focusing on my work.

                After about two hours I had finally finished, a task that had only taken me an hour previous time. I learned many many important things that night. First off, I have plenty of time during before practice to not only take a nap but also get my work done as well, and second off that I am not napping nearly as much as I should be if doing a simple task such as homework is so difficult at only 10:45. Luckily our fall season ends tomorrow so all next week and until after winter break I will have five extra hours to nap, and possibly get work done if I’m feeling productive.