College Admissions Essay: Nap Time To Grow Up

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Around 20-30 years ago, you likely laid in the following familiar position at one point in another. Back on a thin "sleeping mat" that was laid on a cold tile floor, surrounded by the other twenty or so members of your kindergarten class. But you weren't sleeping, and aside from maybe one kid who was already wise enough to respect sleep, no one else was either. You stared at the ceiling knowing that as soon as the lights flicked on there would be a rush for the toys, and you'd be god damned if that piece of shit Timmy was getting to the only Buzz Lightyear before you.

As you and the majority of your class waited for the dark exile of the grade school joke known as "nap time" to be over, usually only one or two kids actually caught up on the sleep they desperately needed. Those two kids grew up to be Mark Zuckerberg
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Now I never followed that up with more research or even remember where I read it, but it sounds fucking legit so I'm sticking to that philosophy. Sure you may sacrifice having a decent lunch, as a lunch-hour-nap also means a protein bar for the rest of your day's nourishment. From where I'm standing, I think your body will thank you more for getting back some of the sleep it lost staying up late watching Diners, Dine-Ins, And Dives as opposed to stuffing a full Chipotle burrito into your stomach by yourself like a loser.

Your body is a temple, and as a post-grad that temple is always fucking exhausted. In terms of bad employees, being the tired employee is third behind only the funds embezzling employee and the guy who doesn't refill the Keurig employee. I'm not here to peer pressure you, but just try it, come on, try it one time, everyone is doing it. Commit yourself to a lunch hour with 5-10 minutes of eating and 30-40 minutes of napping, then feel free to @ me on Twitter to tell me how god damn refreshed you felt that

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