Students structure sleep schedules Academics, other responsibilities create challenges for healthy lifestyles

By TALIA WINIARSKY the daily northwestern @winiarskyt

Every Wednesday at 4:40 a.m., McCormick freshman

Julia Davis wakes up, puts her uniform on and walks up to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps house for training.

Early morning wakeups are a habit for Davis, who chooses to wake up nearly every day at times others may consider early.

“If I’m sleeping in, that’s like 8 a.m., and I’ll only do that once a week,” she said. “It makes me feel really bad if I wake up any later because I just feel like I just wasted my day.”

Northwestern students have a variety of different sleeping habits, which typically accommodate their schoolwork, jobs, extracurriculars and other