Sleep medicine

Setting three different alarms, placing my waiver near the front door, wearing my thick cotton pants, hoodie, and socks, I would then lie fast asleep in bed. Waking up to the nettlesome sounds of my alarms ringing in my ears, rubbing the sand from my eyes, walking to the bathroom, I instinctively move both of my arms to cover my eyes from the shining bulbs that illuminate the bathroom. As I get ready for the morning, the sun is still shining on the other side of the world and everyone is still…

from, I am not sure. I had never experienced abduction before, nor had I ever witnessed one. Maybe I just watched too much TV. Regardless, it was a very real fear of mine and it seemed to come alive at night while I would be in my bed attempting to sleep. I can recall waking up in the middle of the night as a child and…

My First Day of School in Kindergarden “Click” Good morning Natalie! Wake up! my mom said excitedly. My mom is a very loving and happy kind of person who always thinks positively. I groaned to indicate to my mom that I was awake. I just laid there in my bed tired and unwilling to get up, my mom decided to change me because she saw how sleepy I was. I woke myself up a bit but I was half asleep most of the time when my mom was changing me out of my pajamas. I would always jump once in a while…

As I open the soft, yellow curtains and walk into my room, the strong scent of sweaty clothes and stale food overwhelm me. There are filthy sports clothes piled up in the corner. Dirty socks, muddy cleats and wrinkled blazers are strewn across the floor. Leftover chips, half-emptied coke cans and empty candy packs lie on top of one of the desks. The smell of everything combined is haunting and terrible. A laptop is left open on the bed, showing a YouTube video. The sound of the movie video roars…

Dress Code Moving from elementary school to middle school is a huge, scary change. From having seven classes a day to no recess it’s a very stressful adjustment. I wasn’t prepared, though, for the most stressful change to be my wardrobe. Every year the 90-degree days of August roll around, the masses of students in grade school groan about the inevitable end of our three months of freedom. As much as I dreaded being locked in a prison for seven hours a day five days a week, when August rolled…

New York otherwise known as the “Big Apple” is home to approximately 19.7 million people. In a closer lense, New York City is home to 8.4 million people. Everytime I go to New York I always spot the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center. For seven summers I went to Camp Matoaka in Maine, each year I would return to the same smiling faces. These familiar faces were always close to my heart, however they were not always in reach. My friends lived in places such as: Paris, New York City,…

I believe one reason is related to the transtheoretical model. My mind set is still stuck in the preparation stage and I need to push myself past that to take action in the next stage. I know I want to get more sleep but there is many factors that push me to stay awake and sacrifice sleep still; for example, hanging out with friends at night. My benefits are still there with the cons but I’m seeing the cons as well. For example, I’m exhausted during the day and do not feel my best. I want to…

In this paper I will argue Cartesian dualism offers a more rational explanation of reality than Darwinian monism. I believe people have both body and soul, and they interact with each other. Jonathan Haidt described the relationship between body and soul as “like a rider on the back of an elephant”(11) in his book “The Happiness Hypothesis”. Our body like an elephant, our soul like a rider on it’s back and try to control it. But the problem is that the soul is not always a good rider. For…

technology. She explains that we are addicted to technology because we use technology too much. The background of this article is that we as humans rely on technology too much, because of that people are becoming lazier and children are getting less sleep because they are distracted by lighted up screens they stay up longer. The first claim presented is “ surely tiredness is a by-product of a busy modern life”. Which means that because we spend all our time on our phones,tablets, etc. we are…

snooze button again and again? In our crazy world, everyone is so busy that few people get the sleep they need. It is no different for teenagers. They have to go to school so early because of stagered buses which avoid high bus costs. Teenagers stay up late and they have later after-school activities and more homework. They also need more sleep. Yet it's the teens who go to school early when they need more sleep than the elementary schools. This is why Darien middle and high schools should start…