Going back home for only a week has truly given me the worst kind of jetlag that I have ever experienced. Usually, jetlag is something that I can manage and my sleep cycle adjusts in like three to four days. Not this time. It has been a week since I've been here at UCLA and the jetlag has only reduced by a slight amount.

For those folks who do not have sixteen-hour flights twice each year, you must be thinking that I am exaggerating the severity of this. I am not.

For those who don't know what Jetlag is: Jetlag can result from traveling across time zones or from doing shift work. The more time zones a person crosses in a short period, the more severe the symptoms are likely to be.

It is a physiological condition that results from a disruption in the body's circadian rhythms, also known as the body clock. It is seen as a circadian rhythm disorder.

Symptoms tend to be more severe when traveling eastward compared with westward. Why does that occur? Traveling east causes more problems than traveling west because the body clock has to be advanced, which is more difficult for the majority of humans than delaying it. Most people have an endogenous circadian rhythm that is longer than 24 hours, so lengthening a day is less troublesome than shortening it.

Traveling back and forth long distances is something that I look forward to because I just generally love to travel. Every time I get ready to do that sixteen-hour flight, I am always excited even though I know that I will be exhausted from this. I feel that traveling, even though it is tiring and dealing with that is frustrating, gives me a different sort of freedom and independence that I feel like I can't get enough of.

Airports fascinate me because they are truly a common getaway for people from all over the world. There are so many people all over the world and we all live in bubbles with a limited scope of the population of the world which always expands when we travel.

Coming back to my case, I feel that I just need to find a solid day to sleep eight hours to get over this.

Which day will that be? It remains to be seen.