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Students’ sleep schedules
Sleep is an essential part of teenagers’ lives, but according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) around 70% of them don’t get enough of it. The AAMS says that teenagers are supposed to get anywhere from eight to ten hours of sleep a night.
Ainsley Colt, a Carlmont student who has a busy schedule, reflects on her usual sleep schedule.
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“I’ve never really had a set bedtime. I always just put myself to bed at like 8 p.m. because I like to be asleep early. As long as it’s dark out, I can go to sleep.
In an ideal world, I go to bed at like 9 p.m. and get up at like 5:30 a.m., but that’s not usually how it works. So sometimes I’ll go to bed around midnight or 2 a.m. and then get up around 5 a.m. Because the stress of school makes me not sleep, every Sunday night, I never get more than three hours of sleep.” is a junior at Carlmont, who takes multiple advanced classes and does school sports.
“My sleep schedule is really random. Some nights I go to sleep at 4 a.m. and others at 3 a.m., but usually, I don’t get that much sleep. Normally during the week, I get around three or four hours, and then I sleep a lot on the weekends, I would say usually around 10 hours.
Normally, I’m really tired when I come to school, and it’s hard for me to perform well and then as soon as I get home from school, I also have homework to do. So it’s just like non-stop work. Sports make me go to bed later along with a lot of hours of homework. I trained for around two hours each day and then homework also takes up a lot of time. But, during summer breaks, my sleep schedule completely changes and I get around eight hours.”
Emily Song, a sophomore at Carlmont who is a part of multiple school sports, recalls what her sleep looks like during a normal school week.
“Normally I go to sleep pretty late like 12 a.m. and I wake up around 7 a.m., which is around seven hours asleep on weekdays. I have practice, and it runs pretty late, so I don’t have a lot of time to do homework when I get home. Drinking caffeinated drinks helps me wake up in the morning.”
