worlds collide.

so i’ve been averaging 2-3 hours a sleep a night for the last week as i reach the final stretch of my first year of arch school. at this point, i am trying any and every method to stay awake and alert since i still have about 6812735672 things left to do. even my upbeat music puts me to sleep, so i’ve started listening to free podcasts off of iTunes, one in particular called “Stuff You Should Know”. it’s been around for a while, so there are a ton of episodes to choose from - i just download the ones that seem interesting to me.

i just finished one entitled “Is Sleep That Important?” (i’m gonna guess the answer is…..yes), and learned about one particularly disturbing study in which lab rats were kept intentionally awake to see the effects of sleep deprivation (the researcher would actually poke the rat when it started to doze off - horrible, i know).

even more horrible? these rats, which would normally live 3 years, died within 3 weeks. hmm.