Sleep!!! ......ZzzZZzz

After numerous nights of staying up late, I have realized how valuable sleep truly is!! School has been quite tiring and demanding requiring long nights of dedication and persistance. Because of this, it seems that we as students lose out on tons of sleep! An average person is supposed to be sleeping at least eight hours a day!...Most of us especially teenagers don't sleep that much at all.

Personally, I have seen what leaving work for last minute does to a night! I mean it swallows it whole and when you realize it...the night is now morning and you barely have time to do anything else! But even when you don't procrastinate, just studying alone and doing other work and whatever else can envelope the time in a night, leaving little or no time at all for sleep!

Sleep not only is relaxing and quite good but it helps in:

• Concentration
• Memory Formation
• Body repair

Without the proper amount of sleep (as i have experienced quite often), focus diminishes greatly!. It becomes hard to pay attention especially class! You'll feel drained for the whole day! And of course who can forget those comments that will come along with the stressed/ tired look you'll have on your face all day!

Little or no sleep is nothing nice because it can also stunt memory formation! It is proven that the more sleep you get the better your memory becomes! So just a tip...get a good night's sleep before a big test or quiz it helps!!!

Also, with sleep you look rejuevenated in the morning! You will reduce the chances of having bags and dark circles under your eyes and just look fresh and ready to take on the day at hand! Sleep will help with thos eand much more!

...SO make sure you get enough sleep at night!!!! Take a nap during the day if that helps!!!!