Do you like to sleep in? Is getting up and leaving your warm, cozy bed the last thing you want to do on an almost daily basis? Do you sit through your morning classes and wish you were dead instead? If you answered yes to all of those questions, you may be entitled to sleep compensation.

No, not for your past hours of sleep missed and hours spent falling asleep in class instead. I mean for your future academic career, so you may never have to sit through that god-awful plant bio class at 8:30 A.M. ever again.

TAKE AN ONLINE CLASS EVERY SEMESTER!

I'm in my first online class this semester and WOW do I love it. I can do everything at my own pace as long as all my work is done by the deadline and NO class I have to sit through! I can do everything at my own pace!

I do recommend that class being something you're interested in learning so that you're motivated to actually DO the work if you're someone that can oftentimes be unmotivated when it comes to getting certain things done (@ me.) Additionally, I recommend a semester or two without having one, because if you can't juggle your regular classes normally, this may not be the move for you.

My online class this semester is Intro to Women's Gender and Sexuality studies and it's really helped me shape and form my feminist identity at my own pace without the judgment of anyone else looking on and without having to participate in class discussions and group work (as someone with extreme anxiety about this kind of stuff, this is the best part! I get to do what I feel comfortable with all on my own!)

I would love to take my own advice and schedule myself an online class for next semester, but the way the cookie crumbled was that I'm back to a ton of early-morning classes and no room for an online class! Bummer bummer bummer. Oh well, I hope you can fit one in for my sake! You can have all the Z's I've been catching since none of my classes started earlier than noon this semester. That's right, no early (or even late) A.M. classes. Although the semester is approaching its remaining weeks, and all good things must come to an end. Maybe I'll have a semi-normal sleeping schedule next semester.

Into the unknown I go, and hopefully into the sleep zone you go with my hot, spicy advice! Let me know if this saved your sleeping schedule next semester! Happy snoozing!