It is the life of a college student to be exhausted all the time. We are so ridiculously over-scheduled, between class and homework and jobs and friends and everything else, sleep is the first thing to go. So it's natural that college students would have a tendency to fall asleep in class.

But it's not like we sleep because class is boring or we don't like the professors - although that might sometimes be the case. We sleep because our eyes won't stay open any more. Our poor eyelids have given up on us. Even four cups of coffee in, it can be impossible to stay awake in class. It might be the most interesting class you've ever taken, with your favorite professor, and yet you still can't stay awake. Hell, I might actually get more than six hours of sleep some nights, and I will probably still struggle to stay awake. When the professor puts a movie on, or it happens to be a long lecture day, or even a large group discussion, I'm probably on the edge of sleep no matter what is happening. And I don't know how to stop that.

So I guess what I'm saying is that I love to learn. Despite complaining, I do love going to class. Sleep is not always the sign of disinterest it seems to be, it's a sign of the fight to balance my time, my choice to value academics and friends over the amount of time I spend sleeping at night. So we try to rely on coffee, but it's not always going to work. So I'm trying. Trying so hard to stay awake all the time, because class is important to me. But I'd like a little slack, because I've reached the point where my life is the following meme, and I don't know how to stop it.